An 86-year-old Ontario woman, Judy Skene, lost over $900,000 to a cryptocurrency scam using a deepfake video of Mark Carney. She invested her life savings, including a mortgage on her condo, after seeing the fake ad on Facebook.
Sam Little, a former contestant on BBC's The Traitors, lost £40,000 in life savings to a cryptocurrency phishing scam. He was tricked into revealing his login details after receiving a fake bank alert, leading to the theft of funds meant for his family.
SCMP highlights seven stories from its recent Asia coverage, including Indonesia ceding Asean leadership to Singapore, Japan's earthquake causing Bali megathrust concerns, and a Type 10 tank blast killing three. The compilation also references a Filipino retiree losing life savings.
Janet Fordham died in crash after travelling to see man who claimed he would help to recover money from earlier scamsA British woman who was scammed out of up to £1m in a string of so-called romance frauds died in a road crash after travelling to west Africa to try to recoup some of her lost fortune, an inquest in Devon has heard.Janet Fordham was cheated of her life savings and her home over a period of five years by fraudsters apparently based in the UK, Germany, the US and Ghana, the inquest in Exeter was told. Continue reading...
