Brief - The Hustle | fraud and scams (2)

Scammers have ripped off as much as $36B in unemployment benefits this year

Ethan Brooks
Updated 1/6/21
Venmo and Cash App are a scammer’s paradise

Michael Waters
Updated 10/14/20
Don’t buy that bulldog! The ‘puppy scam’ dashes the dreams of 10k dog lovers

Conor Grant
Updated 10/3/20
Holy Hua-camole: The US is pursuing criminal charges against Huawei

Wes Schlagenhauf
Updated 10/3/20
The big business of honey laundering

Michael Waters
Updated 9/30/20
This means war: Banks are going full bunker mode to fight cybercrime

Wes Schlagenhauf
Updated 9/23/20
Feds indict NFL player and ‘Black-ish’ TV writer on charges of insider trading

Wes Schlagenhauf
Updated 9/23/20
The truth shell set you sea: StarKist admits to fixing tuna prices

Wes Schlagenhauf
Updated 9/23/20
The Mt. Everest of scams: Travel insurance companies crack down on helicopter fraud

Conor Grant
Updated 9/23/20
Con artist scams Alabama town out of millions with fake business incubator

Wes Schlagenhauf
Updated 9/22/20
A fraud-detection company just got busted for committing fraud

Michael Waters
Updated 9/22/20
Webmaster gone wild…

Kamran Rosen
Updated 9/21/20
GoFund my scam

The Hustle
Updated 9/21/20
The boarding-pass hack that hit Australia’s former prime minister

Michael Waters
Updated 9/21/20
It’s prime time for coronavirus swindlers

Nick DeSantis
Updated 9/19/20
Are Nikola’s electric semi trucks bullshit?

Bobby Durben
Updated 9/17/20
He lost nearly $100k to a con artist. He turned it into a business

Katherine Laidlaw
Updated 10/10/25
The con man who sold the Eiffel Tower — twice

Katherine Laidlaw
Updated 3/1/24
The secretary who helped uncover one of America’s strangest Ponzi schemes

Mark Dent
Updated 8/16/23
Why so much of the world runs on counterfeit software

Olatunji Olaigbe
Updated 6/24/23

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