One sham marriage can lead to a jackpot of fraud. Abioli Femi Quadri was a Nigerian citizen who acquired permanent residency in the United States through what he himself described as a “fake wedding” in messages to a woman who was not his wife. Turns out Quadri had no aspirations to be a doting husband, […]
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In the United States, more than a half a million children are identified as victims of abuse or neglect every year. They say life is a deck of cards. Well, these kids have been dealt a bad hand. And the croupier dealing out the cards to the kids in South Dakota would be Lonna Carroll, […]
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Deaun Larson Holdaway served as an office manager at Measures of Affect Theoretically Relative (MATR), a group of substance abuse treatment centers in Utah. She, along with two other administrators, handled day-to-day operations including submitting claims to Medicaid – which in 2018, when MATR first became a Medicaid provider, required very little administration. But in […]
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“Was this you? Please confirm your identity. Someone just requested a password reset. CREATE A PASSWORD You’ll use it to log into: XXXXXXX Didn’t make this request? Click here for help.” Sound familiar? Chances are, you’ve seen emails like this—ones that demand quick action and spark a bit of panic. If your response was to ignore or delete it, great! You’re one step ahead in keeping yourself secure. But if you’ve ever clicked without thinking, you already know how risky that one action can be. When it comes to cybersecurity, two age-old sayings come to mind: “Prevention is better than cure” and “Your safety starts with you.” And they couldn’t be more accurate. Whether it’s emails, messages, or phone calls,…
KrebsOnSecurity recently heard from a reader whose boss’s email account got phished and was used to trick one of the company’s customers into sending a large payment to scammers. An investigation into the attacker’s infrastructure points to a long-running Nigerian cybercrime group that is actively targeting established companies in the transportation and aviation industries. …
Arizona Foothills Magazine’s “Best of Our Valley” awards has regularly recognized Stephanie Hockridge as “Favorite Newscaster” and particularly in the year 2014 as “Best Weekends Anchor.” But this year, 2025, it is looking like Hockridge is going to clinch the nomination for Arizona Foothills “Fraudster of The Year.” On June 23, 2025, Hockridge, a former Phoenix […]
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Hard to deny that infomercials know how to sell using a variety of techniques that create a sense of urgency and appeal to emotions that capture viewer attention. They encourage them to buy what was earlier not necessarily wanted. A perfect tactic for a fraudster scheming to sell thousands of orthotic braces on the taxpayers […]
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Becoming a musician can be a daunting path filled with various challenges including high competition, creative burnout, and financial instability. While future platinum record artists may not be inherently better or worse with finances than people in other professions, the nature of the music industry can present unique financial challenges – challenges that Onomen Uduebor […]
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On Sunday, July 20, Microsoft Corp. issued an emergency security update for a vulnerability in SharePoint Server that is actively being exploited to compromise vulnerable organizations. The patch comes amid reports that malicious hackers have used the Sharepoint flaw to breach U.S. federal and state agencies, universities, and energy companies. …
When one works their way up the ladder, or even halfway up, in the U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA), they are given access to not only a repository of data necessary for millions of people seeking benefits, but they are also sitting on the mother lode of personal identifying information. Which is key to any […]
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