Tag: fraud

Five stories that demonstrate we’re living in the golden age of the personal hoax.

“The future that debt chose for me — indeed the future it chooses for many people — included a lot of shame, confusion, and pain.”

“Then, after he was done seeing patients for the day, he’d begin his other work. The work no one could find out about. The work that would destroy his life, along with hundreds of others.”

“…these emails paint a portrait of a platform whose creators are fundamentally unable to track what goes on within it, and point to easily exploitable loopholes that scammers have steamed their way through by the truckload.”

Oh by the way, Airbnb makes money on cancellations, too.

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.