With opportunities dwindling, Nigerian youths are investing in dubious enterprises – and paying the price
New research shows that there were fewer cryptocurrency-related crimes in 2020 — a bumper year for the digital asset. But the biggest scam originated in South Africa
Sakawa is a moving, sympathetic portrayal of an online dating fraud syndicate in Ghana
A senior soldier who is part of South Africa’s peacekeeping missions is accused by her colleagues of swindling them out of of hundreds of thousands of rands in a nonexistent business deal
Local regulation of cryptocurrencies could be implemented as soon as next year
The Marrakech that tourists are shown is a very different place from the city that locals live in
The eThekwini ANC chairperson was asked to take leave or face removal
A sting operation involving a private investigator posing as a farmer has uncovered a scam in which staffers sell transformers on the black market.
The South Africans allegedly duped by a UAE trickster face an uphill battle to return home
After backing a successful Kickstarter project, but not seeing the product in development, Liron Segev believes he may have been the victim of a scam.
A criminal gang has been covertly targeting the M&G’s online readers with a sophisticated security scam. Help us ensure they don’t succeed.
Authorities say Paul Burks was the mastermind of a $600-million scam, one of the biggest in US history, that attracted one-million investors.
The department of finance has condemned the use of documents containing government logos being used to con people out of their hard-earned money.
Mahumapelo has pocketed at least R200000 through his travel agency’s business dealings with an ailing municipality in the province.
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/ 27 September 2011
If you fall foul of a phishing scam and give away your details because of your own negligence, banks are probably not liable.
A Taiwan scam victim paid 12-million Taiwan dollars for a croissant which he never got to eat,
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/ 29 November 2010
Front company channelled millions of dollars in commissions from Nigerian contract.
International lottery scams are claiming that people are winning hundreds of thousands of euros and dollars.
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