Fraud

Singapore introduces potent anti-scam measures

Plans to block more scam sites, share liability between banks and customers

Security16 Feb 2022 | 10

Former tech CIO jailed for setting up £475k backhander scam with IT outsourcing firm

One-time head of Hampshire Police IT gets six years

Legal03 Feb 2022 | 21

Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes found guilty of fraud: Blood-testing machines were vapourware after all

Fallen Silicon Valley darling defrauded investors, says jury

Legal04 Jan 2022 | 151

Insurance firm Admiral fails to grab phone location data of 'fraud' claimant's mother

Plus: Quad9 loses German DNS-blocking injunction pause attempt

Legal17 Dec 2021 | 49

Cryptocurrency 'rug pulls' cheated investors out of $8bn in 2021 – report

Somehow people keep buying into dodgy crypto projects that vanish with investor funds

Personal Tech16 Dec 2021 | 54

European Cybercrime Centre confident it's kicked credit card crims – again

Poised to reveal similar haul to 2020's €40M loss prevention total

Security02 Dec 2021 | 4

Theranos' Holmes admits she slapped Big Pharma logos on lab reports to boost her biz

'I wish I had done it differently' she tells jury in fraud trial

Science24 Nov 2021 | 52

Teen bought Google ad for his scam website and made 48 Bitcoins duping UK online shoppers

'If he was an adult he would be going inside' – judge

Legal27 Oct 2021 | 69

Fake 'BT' caller fleeces elderly victim of £30k in APP app scam

That's authorised push payment – where they get the mark to make the transfer

Security27 Sep 2021 | 75

Brits open doors for tech-enabled fraudsters because they 'don't want to seem rude'

Impersonation scams and smishing rocket, say UK Finance and Which?

Security14 Sep 2021 | 24

Former Cisco exec jailed for fraud, dodging taxes

Lean in for a tale of shell companies, fake CEOs, bribes, prison time and $3.6m in fines

Legal31 Aug 2021 | 14

'Unicorn' startup CEO faked sales figures, deals to trick investors, prosecutors claim

Co-founder of mobile dev biz HeadSpin Manish Lachwani charged with fraud

Applications26 Aug 2021 | 18

What's this about a lawyer looking for an heir? City of London Police seek IT crew to help crack down on fraud

Contract worth £75m over seven years

Security05 Jul 2021 | 6

IT manager who swindled Essex hospital trust out of £800k gets 5 years in prison

Self-signed invoices let him cream off hundreds of thousands

Legal02 Jul 2021 | 42

Financial watchdog says Google's clampdown on scam ads might not be enough to prevent stricter laws in Britain

That's tough talk – especially after the amazing reversal on £680k it spent on anti-fraud ads with search giant

Networks30 Jun 2021 | 7

Former IT manager from Essex pleads guilty to defrauding the NHS of £800k

Invoices from his own companies were just less than the amount he was able to sign off. Services never delivered

Legal28 May 2021 | 30

Trustify CEO gets eight years for lying to investors, spending millions on homes, private jets, sports tickets

'Uber of private investigators' failed to live up to its name

Personal Tech29 Mar 2021 | 18

Ex-Microsoft exec admits he tried to swindle $5.5m out of taxpayers with COVID-19 relief loans for bogus biz

Mukund Mohan invented employees, financial figures in application forms

Legal16 Mar 2021 | 14

Theranos destroyed crucial subpoenaed SQL blood test database, can't unlock backups, prosecutors say

CEO Holmes also accused of funding extravagant lifestyle through fraud

Databases12 Jan 2021 | 61

About $15m in advertising booked to appear on millions of smart TVs was never seen by anyone, says Oracle

Yes, Oracle the database giant. 2020 keeps on being 2020

Personal Tech17 Dec 2020 | 51

Former Microsoft tester sent down for 9 years after $10m gift card fraud

Flipping gift cards for cash = fast cars, nice houses and, er, jailtime

Legal10 Nov 2020 | 46

Russian jailed for eight years in the US for writing code that sifted botnet logs for web banking creds for fraudsters

Harvested usernames, passwords used to drain victims' coffers

Security02 Nov 2020 | 9

Elizabeth Holmes' plan to avoid her Theranos fraud trial worked out about as well as her useless blood-testing machines

What she in lacks in ethics, she more than makes up for in persistence

Science14 Oct 2020 | 144

Someone's getting a free trip to the US – well, not quite free. Brit bloke extradited to face $2m+ cyber-scam charges

That's certainly one way to get around COVID-19 travel restrictions

Security01 Sep 2020 | 53

Teen charged after allegedly taking food delivery biz for a ride: $10k of 'fraudulent refunds for stuff not delivered'

Kid’s alleged 8-month spree could end with food delivery between jail cell bars

Bootnotes27 Aug 2020 | 24

Reap it in the family: Four brothers accused of cheating Amazon out of $19m in wholesaler fraud caper

Homeland Security swoops on quad who allegedly committed worst US crime of all: Defrauding Big Business

Personal Tech20 Aug 2020 | 15

Architect of tech contractor tax fraud scheme jailed for at least five years

Payroll company kept over $70m of tax and founders spent it lavishly

On-Prem03 Aug 2020 | 35

Shocked I am. Shocked to find that underground bank-card-trading forums are full of liars, cheats, small-time grifters

No honor among thieves

Security23 Jul 2020 | 31

Anatomy of a business email scam: FBI dossier details how fraudster pocketed $500k+ by redirecting payments

Electrolux, construction biz fooled into handing over money funneled out of the US to South Africa

Security03 Jun 2020 | 7

Crooks set up stall on UK govt's IT marketplace to peddle email fraud services targeting 'gullible' punters

Exclusive Who would have thought the G in G Cloud stood for Gangster?

SaaS18 May 2020 | 16

There's Norway you're going to believe this: Government investment fund conned out of $10m in cyber-attack

Updated Police pining to drop the Lillehammer on crooks

Security14 May 2020 | 10

US piles yet more charges on Theranos CEO, COO. We could do with good blood testing now... and this wasn't it

Elementary, my dear Holmes

Science11 May 2020 | 23

Bad news: So much of your personal data has been hacked that lesson manuals on how to use it are the latest hot property

Cyber-crims bone up on methods for fun and profit, but mainly profit

Security16 Apr 2020 | 16

Low-orbit internet banking fraud claim alleged to be a load of space junk

This is what comes of mixing the International Space Station, a relationship breakdown, and banking records

Security09 Apr 2020 | 10

China's biggest e-learning company admits deliberately getting its sums wrong when counting sales

Employee cuffed after forged contracts and dodgy documents discovered

On-Prem09 Apr 2020 | 32

Sadly, the web has brought a whole new meaning to the phrase 'nothing is true; everything is permitted'

Column Well, isn't this a lovely paranoid bed we've made for ourselves

Security05 Mar 2020 | 124

Fake docs rock real docs: Ex-Wall St guy accused of conning medics out of £27m for bogus cryptocurrency fund using faked paperwork

He spent the dosh on himself rather than invest it as promised, prosecutors claim

Science12 Feb 2020 | 26

Robbing-some Caruso and pal lived life of luxury using victims' millions in crypto-Ponzi scam, say prosecutors

Pair allegedly gambled away investor cash and blew the rest on private jet and cars, mansion, fashion

Science06 Feb 2020 | 20

If only 3 in 100,000 cyber-crimes are prosecuted, why not train cops to bring these crooks to justice once and for all, suggests think-tank veep

Enigma 'We are focusing on defending systems over identifying and pursuing the person behind the cyber-crime'

Security30 Jan 2020 | 43

Russian super-crook behind $20m internet fraud den Cardplanet and malware-exchange forum pleads guilty

Now 29-year-old faces years in the clink after long battle to bring him to justice

Security24 Jan 2020 | 13

Bank IT bod pocketed nearly $1m in kickbacks from tech contractor bosses for sending deals their way, Feds claim

Cuffed procurement bureaucrat took percentage cut, it is alleged

On-Prem21 Jan 2020 | 10

IT exec sets up fake biz, uses it to bill his bosses $6m for phantom gear, gets caught by Microsoft Word metadata

And now he faces up to 20 years in the slammer

Security04 Jan 2020 | 96

Buzz kill: Crook, 73, conned investors into shoveling millions into geek-friendly caffeine-loaded chocs that didn't exist. Now he's in jail

Scammer and pals blew the cash on cosmetic surgery, jewelry, swanky pads, flash motors

Bootnotes16 Dec 2019 | 80

Reasons to be fearful 2020: Smishing, public Wi-Fi, deepfakes... and all the usual suspects

Too soon for New Year Resolutions?

Security06 Dec 2019 | 23

VCs find exciting new way to blow $1m: Wire it directly to hackers after getting spoofed

Who needs an elevator pitch when you have man-in-the-middle attack?

Security05 Dec 2019 | 18

It's 2019 so, of course, there's alleged ad fraud to the tune of $1bn in tech pushed to doctors

Execs accused of inflating advert views and sales on fondleslabs, signs installed in medical offices

Personal Tech26 Nov 2019 | 11

ICO scammer Maksim Zaslavskiy to miss 2020 Tokyo Olympics over digital currency fraud

Businessman gets 18 months for bogus cryptocoin sales

Security20 Nov 2019 | 15

Shopped online at Macy's last month? Might want to toss, or at least check, that card

Magecart making life difficult yet again for shopping website

Security19 Nov 2019 | 4

Feds indict 14 over alleged scheme to get Apple to replace fake iPhones with real ones

Cloned kit had real IMEI and serial numbers, keeping the scam going for eight years

Personal Tech15 Nov 2019 | 10

What a pair of Massholes! New England duo cuffed over SIM-swapping cryptocoin charges

Account takeovers allegedly used to plunder digital wallets

Security14 Nov 2019 | 10

Russian bloke charged in US with running $20 million stolen card-as-a-service online souk

Prosecutors say 29 year-old was mastermind of prolific 'Cardplanet' operation

Security13 Nov 2019 | 5

Surveillance kit slinger accused of slapping 'Made in America' on Chinese gear, selling it to the US government

But sure, it's Huawei that's the big security threat

Security08 Nov 2019 | 37

Baffled by bogus charges on your Amazon account? It may be the work of a crook's phantom gadget

Register readers confirm unseen hardware took bank cards on a joyride

Personal Tech04 Nov 2019 | 59

40 million emoji-addicted keyboard app users left with $18m bill – after malware sneaks into Play Store yet again

Bogus charges being racked up by Android tool

Applications01 Nov 2019 | 33

A stranger's TV went on spending spree with my Amazon account – and web giant did nothing about it for months

Crook exploited security hole, hijacked punter's bank cards

Security31 Oct 2019 | 155

No one would be so scummy as to scam a charity, right? UK orgs find out the hard way

Research blames 'culture of trust' for weak fraud protections

Security21 Oct 2019 | 50