fraudster

When I watched Inventing Anna on Netflix earlier this year, I was enthralled, to say the least. There’s something about watching fraudsters (especially ones based on real-life) rise and fall that is so entertaining. Plus, more often than…

Normal text sizeLarger text sizeVery large text sizeFor eight months, Bill Papas has been silent. Accused of orchestrating one of the biggest frauds in Australian history — an alleged $500 million swindle of Westpac and the local branches…

The cousin of alleged fraudster Bill Papas has defended receiving $720,000 from the colourful soccer identity’s share trading account in breach of freezing orders, saying the transfers were to pay legal fees and loan repayments.Eric…

The corporate watchdog is scrambling to recover a trove of Bitcoin worth up to $29 million held in an encrypted device belonging to a Gold Coast barber shop owner suspected of orchestrating a large-scale superannuation fraud.The fraud…

Online fraud is getting sneakier and stealthier as mischievous operatives evolve their techniques. Learn some of the unique tricks afoot today and how to spot them.…

Fraudster Barry Stannard, a former IT manager from Essex, has been sentenced to five years and four months in prison after cheating the NHS and Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) out of £806,229.80. He had pled guilty to two…

“How can you sleep at night?,” angrily asks actor Sarah Jane Dias to all the fraudsters who preyed on the vulnerabilities of panic-stricken people looking for medicines and facilities amid the second wave of Covid-19 outbreak in India.“I…