The hotline that did not exist while the app kept promising it did
Forty-six state attorneys general say Cash App sold a safety it never built. The $45 million settlement is the receipt for what happened to the people who believed the pitch.
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The loan was approved. Only forty percent of it ever reached her account.
Kondagaon Police arrested five men this week in an alleged ₹12 crore ($1.4M USD) loan scheme that ran through 43 teachers' salary accounts. The pitch was simple. The math was the trap.
The share price climbed 842 percent. The looms had already stopped.
India's markets regulator says a listed textile company with almost no textile sales somehow climbed 842 percent in a year. The looms were empty. The order book was in the trading terminal.
The venue took the deposit. The vendors were never paid. The bride paid twice.
Jason Lottman pleaded guilty to wire fraud on July 6, 2026, after running a wedding venue that took full payment for weddings it never intended to deliver. The couples paid vendors twice. Some never walked down the aisle at all.
The tickets were real. The bookings were not.
A Fort McMurray travel agency at the Peter Pond Mall took payments for flights and hotels that were never booked. Seven years later, the RCMP issued a warrant. The people who found out first were standing at check-in counters far from home.
The vault manager knew the reporting line. He deposited three thousand at a time.
Joshua Shore spent years learning how banks catch thieves. Federal prosecutors say he used that knowledge to steal $440,000 from the two banks that trained him, one ATM deposit at a time.
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