Pump & Dump

The check window at Pine Ridge had a name on it, and the name was hers.

For nearly seven years, TERO fee checks meant for the Oglala Sioux Tribe's general fund took a detour through a personal bank account in Porcupine, South Dakota. Buffy Redfish was sentenced on June 29 to six and a half years. The window she sat behind is the story.

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Pump & Dump

The share price climbed 842 percent. The looms had already stopped.

India's markets regulator says a listed textile company with almost no textile sales somehow climbed 842 percent in a year. The looms were empty. The order book was in the trading terminal.

Recovery Scams

The fraudster drowned. The trustee kept pulling on the thread.

Curtis Quigley drowned in the Okanagan before he could stand trial. A B.C. judge just ruled the trustee can move fast on the investors who came out ahead, because in a Ponzi scheme, coming out ahead means you were paid with someone else's money.

Senior / Family

The voice on the phone said grandson. It was a man in Kumasi reading a script.

A Ghanaian man named Isaac Oduro Boateng, known as Abu Trica, was extradited to the United States this week to face charges he ran a grandparent scam that took millions from elderly Americans. This is what that call sounds like from the other end of the line.

The Daily Brief

The store was 150 square feet. The redemptions were half a million a month.

Elena Ruiz · 1d ago

The venue took the deposit. The vendors were never paid. The bride paid twice.

Mark Tell · 1d ago

The daily percentage was the whole trick. Everything else was decoration.

Nico Reyes · 1d ago

The tickets were real. The bookings were not.

Mark Tell · 1d ago

He served the sentence. The wallet kept working.

Nico Reyes · 1d ago

The office looked real. The kit was soap and oil worth two thousand rupees.

Mark Tell · 1d ago

The homeowners never sold. A stranger closed on their house anyway.

Elena Ruiz · 1d ago

The self-checkout was the counter. The refund desk was the register.

Elena Ruiz · 1d ago

The offering plate had a bank account behind it, and the account was his

Elena Ruiz · 1d ago

The vault manager knew the reporting line. He deposited three thousand at a time.

Mark Tell · 1d ago

The officer wrote the report. The report was the fraud.

Elena Ruiz · 1d ago

The courier knocked at ten in the morning and called it bail money.

Mark Tell · 4d ago

The bribe arrived as a campaign check. That was the point.

Mark Tell · 4d ago

The contractor kept coming back after the house was sold

Elena Ruiz · 5d ago
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