Tag: fraud

Robocalls are a scourge, and it’s only a matter of time before the technology learns to spoof your mother’s voice.

Jacqueline Alnes brings us eight stories about those who live to deceive.

All they really wanted was to live happily ever after.

Beware, should you donate your body to science in the US. Lightly regulated, the industry is ripe for fraudsters trying to make a buck on your personage.

Was the Brillante Virtuoso attacked by pirates, or was it an inside job?

In 2016, Wells Fargo paid a $185 million fine for alleged fraud on its own customers without an admission of guilt. Has anything changed?

In 2011, Diederik Stapel, a bright social psychologist at Tilburg University in the Netherlands, was suspended for fabricating data on a study that brought him much praise. At the Guardian, Stephen Buranyi profiles the team of researchers from the university’s psychology department, Chris Hartgerink and Marcel van Assen, who have since focused their research on scientific fraud.

Pulling back the curtain on Carlos Castaneda, one of America’s most secretive and popular authors.