Tag: scam

• Saturday, November 8th 2025 - 10:39 UTC

  Packs of Chilean counterfeit money available on social media

  

  Chilean criminal organizations are openly offering counterfeit banknotes on social media platforms, including Instagram. These counterfeit bills are often referred to as “5G banknotes” and are advertised by accounts claiming to be “premium money providers.”

• Wednesday, April 14th 2021 - 09:04 UTC

  Venezuela: Money scam by opposition leaders unveiled by Maduro’s Government

  

  Venezuela’s National Assembly Speaker, Jorge Rodríguez – recognized by Nicolás Maduro’s Government – Tuesday denounced opposition leaders were behind a scam plan to “steal” more than 53 million dollars of Venezuela's money frozen in the United States.

• Thursday, July 16th 2020 - 06:43 UTC

  Major hack and “take and run” scam with Twitter high-profile accounts

  

  The official Twitter accounts of Apple, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and others were hijacked on Wednesday by scammers trying to dupe people into sending crypto-currency bitcoin, in a massive hack of the social media platform. The list of accounts commandeered simultaneously grew rapidly to include Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Uber, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, reality television show star Kim Kardashian and rapper Kanye West, among many others.