conmen

A 90-year-old Hong Kong woman has been conned out of US$32million (N12.2bn) by fraudsters posing as Chinese officials, police said, in the city’s biggest recorded phone scam. Hong Kong’s elderly are plagued by phone scammers who seek out…

 Katsina state police command has arrested two men who specialize in defrauding unsuspecting members of the public through phone calls posing as spirits. The suspect identified as Kabiru Bashir, 27, and Sadiq Ashiru, 30 are both from…

Two men have been arrested in India for allegedly duping a Doctor into buying an “Aladdin’s lamp” for $93,000 (N35 million) and even conjured up a fake genie out of the lamp. According to an official, the victim identified as Laeek Khan…