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Byline: Tim Sigsworth SUSPECTED burglars posed as police officers as they scoped out a house in a commuter town, it has been claimed. Kent Police said two men were wearing [...]

A 34-year-old Glen View man who masqueraded as a police officer was arrested for giving a false name, identification number, and home address to the police. Smart Zirira alias Smart [...]

Byline: Timothy Sigsworth Suspected burglars posed as police officers as they scoped out a house in a commuter town, it has been claimed. Kent Police said two men were wearing [...]

Byline: Megan Swift Jul. 10Teachers at Great Valley Middle School in Malvern, Pennsylvania were targeted by students in a group TikTok attack, The New York Times reported. The videos, which [...]

Byline: By, Nicole Goodwin Detectives are warning residents to be vigilant after an elderly couple were conned into handing over thousands of pounds in cash to fraudsters who were posing [...]

Byline: CARRIE TAIT, JANA G. PRUDEN Up to 200 fraudulent votes may have been cast in the United Conservative Party's inaugural leadership contest in 2017, the RCMP said on Friday, [...]

NEW DELHI, India -- The following information was released by the Government of India: by PIB Delhi A large number of complaints are being reported on National Cyber Crime Reporting [...]

Bhubaneswar, April 23 -- After unleashing terror with a series of crimes, the 7-member 'Irani Gang' was busted by the Commissionerate Police on Tuesday. The gang members hail from Madhya [...]

New York magazine's money columnist wrote about being conned out of $50,000 by crooks pretending to be from Amazon and government agencies. We asked the company and agencies for comment. [...]

Byline: [CREDIT]THE CANADIAN PRESS Police in Vancouver say a man posing as a parent tried to take a five-year-old girl from a home daycare, in what they call a 'troubling' [...]

Police have arrested two men on suspicion of posing as members of the force to steal HK$38,000 from a sex worker. Officers arrested a 32-year-old transport worker and 52-year-old jobless [...]

Byline: By, Abigail Nicholson A man pretending to be a police officer booked a taxi for an elderly woman to withdraw almost £5k from her bank account. Cheshire Police are [...]

Germany: Federal Financial Supervisory Authority has issued the following press release: BaFin warns consumers about the website bisonstuttgart.com. BaFin suspects the operators of this website, which are using the names [...]

Byline: Laban Wanambisi Nairobi -- Seven suspects in a Sh2.85 billion gold syndicate in Kileleshwa have been arrested. The Directorate of Criminal Investigations says the suspects allegedly posed as businessmen [...]

An investigation is underway after a woman was sexually touched by a man impersonating a police officer in the state's north. About 8.50pm on Sunday 10 December 2023, a woman [...]

Byline: Amanda Coletta TORONTO - Michelle Good still has the ticket stub, a memento of the last concert she attended with her mother. It was April 29, 1996. Onstage at [...]

Byline: KELLY CRYDERMAN; Staff This week the RCMP confirmed they have launched a criminal investigation into Ontario's now-abandoned decision to open parts of the province's environmentally protected Greenbelt to development, [...]

Byline: By, Francesca Herring An elderly Maidenhead couple narrowly avoided becoming victims of fraud after an alleged incident took place involving a man posing as a police officer. A man [...]

Byline: Justin Vellucci Aug. 31People identifying themselves as sheriff's deputies are using fake court paperwork to try to scam Pittsburghers out of money, the Allegheny County Sheriff's Office announced Thursday. [...]

Byline: Jess Clark and Alex Hern Meta has been urged to crack down on the WhatsApp 'Hi Mum' scam as figures show UK consumers have lost almost £500,000 to the [...]

Germany: Federal Financial Supervisory Authority has issued the following press release: The Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) warns consumers about the website investierung.co. According to information available to BaFin, the [...]

Polk County -- The following information was released by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation: On Monday, October 2, 2023, the GBI arrested former Buchanan Police Department Officer Matthew Hearne, age [...]

Videos circulating online show Jerome H. Powell, the Federal Reserve chair, answering basic questions about the American and global economy. WASHINGTON -- Pranksters posing as Ukraine's president tricked Jerome H. [...]

Jerusalem: Israel Antitrust Authority has issued the following press release: The suspects impersonated representatives of a money transfer company and police officers and defrauded many victims while extorting hundreds of [...]

The woman attended classes in New Brunswick for four days before her ruse was discovered, officials said. For four days, a 29-year-old woman pretended to be a student at a [...]

Byline: [CREDIT]THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO -- TORONTO Police are asking for the public's help in identifying two people accused of selling a home that wasn't theirs while the owners were [...]

Byline: Tess Wandia IN SHORT: It didn't take long for someone to impersonate the Kenya Police Service's new deputy inspector general. This Facebook page in Abdalla Komesha's name is fake. [...]

Byline: Praveena Somasundaram Police in Riverside, Calif., were responding to a call about a teenage girl who 'appeared distressed' while getting into a car with a man Friday morning when [...]

Byline: Drew Harwell The nine-word tweet was sent Thursday afternoon from an account using the name and logo of the pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly and Co., and it immediately attracted [...]

Byline: GARY MASON; Staff When the high-profile health researcher Carrie Bourassa resigned as a professor at the University of Saskatchewan earlier this year - amid allegations that she was not [...]

Byline: Susan Svrluga A man from Alabama was recently removed from Stanford University's campus and told to stay away after officials said he had been living in a dorm even [...]

Byline: Ethan Duran Federal agents are investigating a Franklin-based construction company after a family member allegedly posed as a Black business owner to get contracts from the U.S. Army, an [...]

Lithuania: General Prosecutor's Office of the Republic of Lithuania has issued the following press release: The Kaunas District Prosecutor's Office is leading the investigation into the possible armed robbery committed [...]

Byline: By, Milica Cosic A woman who posed as a member of the famous Rothschild banking dynasty to infiltrate former President Donald Trump 's Mar-a-Lago estate has been outed as [...]

Byline: Edward Helmore in New York A second foreign national is being investigated by US authorities for gaining access to Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump's Florida resort which is at the center [...]

Byline: By, Oliver Clay Two detectives investigating a serious sexual assault were mistaken for imposters posing as plain clothes police. A post on social media on Wednesday morning said an [...]

Byline: By, Benjamin Roberts-Haslam A man impersonating a police officer tried to force his way into a woman's home. At around 3.30pm on Tuesday, July 12, Merseyside Police received a [...]

Byline: Jonathan Edwards Basketball superstar Klay Thompson arrived at San Francisco's Chase Center arena Monday, breezed past security and started shooting baskets before that night's NBA Finals Game 5. On [...]