A New Jersey man pleaded guilty to running a romance fraud that emptied $416,155 from a single Ohio victim under the guise of a dying woman and a fake doctor begging for hospital money. The machine ran on a name, a photograph, and the word "urgent."
Seven years after his fund collapsed and ten months after a £45.9M fine, Neil Woodford is back online with a UAE-registered subscription service. On Monday, the FCA filed to shut it down.
Christopher Staggs ran his pandemic unemployment scheme out of a Chicago LLC and kept a ledger of the people whose identities fueled it. On June 9, 2026, a federal judge gave him two years.
Daniel Pugh sold a trader's life on Facebook from a bedroom in Devon. The FCA has now secured £452,286.80 in compensation. The math of what he actually traded is the part that should stop you.
An Incheon indictment puts a number on a quiet trade: $554 million in alleged criminal crypto, converted to Korean won, routed through a Cambodian payment system Washington has called a primary money laundering concern. The man at the keyboard kept $1.2 million in fees.
An Arab woman wired roughly Dh1.1 million ($301K USD) to two strangers running a fake crypto trading firm in the UAE. When she sued in Dubai civil court, the case was dismissed. The mechanism that took her money was designed to make sure of that.
A Rusk County retiree clicked a pop-up and lost $47,000 in cash handed to a stranger at the door. The stranger drove up from Illinois. He was twenty-four. He came back a second time because the script told him to.
For seven years, prosecutors say, a Danbury software company's chief financial officer moved money from the company's accounts into her own and sent her CEO a weekly report that made the numbers behave. On June 4, 2026, she pleaded guilty.
Christopher W. Burns disappeared on September 25, 2020, the day before he was supposed to hand documents to the SEC. Six years later, the FBI raised the reward to $150,000 and put him on a brand new list.
Vietnamese police arrested 24 suspects this week in a Cambodia-based romance scam operation. The man who said he loved her was working a phone bank in Poipet, and the script he read had been read to thousands of women before her.
A Los Banos man, 40, was arrested at dawn on May 30 after deputies say he drove to an elderly couple's home to collect cash they had been frightened into withdrawing. The couple lost about $28,000. The man at the door was the last link in a chain that started with a phone call.
The Enforcement Directorate arrested Karuturi Venkateshwara Rao on June 2 in a ₹899 crore ($108M USD) bank fraud case that allegedly ran for fifteen years inside the books of a Bengaluru cable company. The machine was not the cable. It was the paperwork.
Utah's Division of Securities issued an emergency cease-and-desist on June 1 against BG Wealth Sharing, a crypto pyramid that promised 60% monthly returns and ran on an AI-generated founder. The machine collapsed the same week. The fees to "release" the money kept coming.
Daiwor Woah-Tee ran a tax preparation business in Belcamp, Maryland for nearly seven years. Federal prosecutors say what he actually ran was a pipeline that turned other people's identities into refund checks and pandemic unemployment benefits, $4 million worth, before the pipeline finally showed.
For nearly two years, a gang moved an estimated £30 million in criminal cash out of Manchester, Birmingham, and Brussels on Emirates flights to Dubai. The lock on the door was a 34-year-old check-in attendant who waved the overweight bags through.
For six years, Shivananda Neelannavar paid 3% a month like clockwork to investors across Karnataka and Maharashtra. The CID now says the clockwork was the trap.
A 39-year-old Japanese national identified only as Mr. Sasaki was arrested in Bangkok's Thonglor district on June 6 after running what Japanese prosecutors allege was a billion-yen call center empire out of Poipet, Cambodia. The voices on the phone were trafficked. The grandmothers on the other end were not.
An Industries Extension Officer in Thiruvananthapuram has been arrested for allegedly converting a women's self-employment subsidy program into a private pipeline. The paperwork was perfect. The money never reached the women whose names sat at the top of the forms.
Federal prosecutors say John Sterling Myers raised $4 million from 28 people and lost most of it before anyone knew the statements were fake. The arraignment is Friday.
For three years a Victoria mortgage broker promised short-term real estate bridge loans paying returns no honest loan could carry. PricewaterhouseCoopers later found the loans were never there. On Friday, Greg Martel was arrested in the country of Georgia.