South Korea’s efforts are part of a widening international crackdown on criminal groups running online fraud schemes from Southeast Asia. By John Yoon and Francesca Regalado Reporting from Seoul South ...

Con artists are using ‘digital arrest’ scams to bilk Indians out of millions, leaving trauma and distrust in their wake. The time has come for various stakeholders to put an end to this menace On a ...

The U.S. government is seeking to seize a massive 127,271 bitcoin (≈$14B) linked to a scam run by Chinese national Chen Zhi and his Cambodia-based criminal network. The U.S. government is moving to ...

The U.S. government has seized $15 billion in bitcoin from a Cambodian business conglomerate charged with running a global cryptocurrency scam. Federal prosecutors claim Chen Zhi, the founder and ...

Officials in the US and UK have taken sweeping action against “one of the largest investment fraud operations in history,” confiscating a historic amount of funds in the process. On Tuesday, officials ...

The victims were led to the Arizona convenience store by an increasingly familiar scam: Crooks had tricked them into believing they were in legal trouble, their bank accounts were hacked or that they ...

The death of a South Korean student in Cambodia, leading to Seoul summoning the Cambodian ambassador, is set to dent tourism and Phnom Penh’s reputation in the eyes of the Korean public, but ties ...

This is the scam that doesn't end. Users have continued to report getting texts from the "DMV" and "MVC" warning them of outstanding traffic tickets and threatening that they could face vehicle ...

South Korea has banned travel to certain parts of Cambodia after the death of a college student, reportedly kidnapped and tortured by a crime ring, shocked the nation and led to calls for stronger ...

The crackdown targets a number of entities and individuals linked to the Prince Group network that used hundreds of thousands of trafficked workers for defrauding people around the world. The US ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — We’re getting closer to marking another week of the federal government shutdown. I received a warning from the Better Business Bureau (BBB) of Michigan as thousands of workers ...

Financial fraud is getting more sophisticated and expensive. The FBI is warning the public about a "phantom hacker" scam that's drained more than $1 billion from seniors' retirement accounts. The ...