extortion

The Internet Crime Complaint Center's latest scam alert included too much to cover in one story, so we did one yesterday, while today's focuses on phony, Trojan-laden emails from the FBI and an email campaign targeting victims with an online blackmail scheme. Alerts by the IC3, a partnership...

If you purchased drugs online or at a so-called telepharmacy, you could be a target for extortionists, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration warns. The FDA issued a warning that people posing as FDA agents -- as well as law enforcement officers from other agencies -- are contacting people who...

Business owners nationwide, primarily of Asian descent, are being targeted by extortionists who threaten them by telephone after gleaning personal information about them from the Internet, the FBI said today.A warning was issued today on IC3.gov, a site operated by the FBI and the National White...

Once, twice, three times a charm for Greenwich investment-firm chief Stephen Dent. The married heir to the Dupont empire has been extorted three times through the online sugar daddy website SeekingArrangement.com. Dent, 54, whose fortune is estimated at $100 million, lost a mere $200,000 on hotel...

The jig is up for a Swiss gigolo found guilty of defrauding and blackmailing a German woman. The 44-year-old male escort convinced married BMW heiress Susanne Klatten to give him $9 million, and tried to get millions more from her in return for not outing her for her infidelity....

Yo ho ho, and a freighter of munitions. Self styled amateur pirates have a strangle hold on the active shipping routes off the shores of Somalia. They are reaping multi-million dollar booty for their exploits. Reports state that Somali pirates are currently holding as many as a dozen ships for...