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As EU privacy law looms, debate swirls on cybersecurity impact
Days ahead of the implementation of a sweeping European privacy law, debate is swirling on whether the measure will have negative consequences for cybersecurity. The controversy is about the so-called internet address book, or WHOIS directory, which up to now has been a public database ...
Eight-year prison term sought for president of failed Tokyo travel agency Tellmeclub
Prosecutors are demanding eight years behind bars for the president of failed travel agency Tellmeclub, who is accused of defrauding two banks of about ¥550 million in loans by doctoring earnings data. While prosecutors claimed Monday that Chikako Yamada, 68, was "selfish and irresponsible in ...
New Delhi police parade 'space suit' scammers after bogus NASA claims are exposed
The alleged scam was out of this world but Indian police brought a father and son duo down to earth Wednesday when they paraded them in the fake space suits used to convince a businessman to hand over more than $200,000. New Delhi police released ...
EU suspects massive tax fraud at China's new 'Belt and Road' gateway to Europe
European Union and Italian authorities are investigating suspected wide-scale tax fraud by Chinese criminal gangs importing goods via Greece's largest port of Piraeus, a trade gateway between China and Europe, officials said. "The VAT is completely evaded, with enormous damage to the national tax authorities ...
Seven men arrested for alleged scam that cost company president bitcoins worth ¥190 million
Seven men in Hyogo Prefecture have been arrested on suspicion of swindling a man out of bitcoins worth around ¥190 million ($1.8 million), police said Wednesday. The police believe the men, all in their 20s, conned a Tokyo marketing firm president in his 40s into ...
Twitter bans cryptocurrency ads on fraud fears, sending bitcoin value south
Twitter on Monday announced a ban on ads for initial offerings of cryptocurrency or sales of virtual currency tokens, sending the value of bitcoin diving below $8,000. Twitter followed the lead of Google and Facebook, which earlier this year cracked down on digital currency ads ...
Scammers impersonating famous people in Monaco, including Prince Albert
Crooks are impersonating top personalities in Monaco, including even Prince Albert II, to scam money from high-flying victims, according to reports Saturday in the Mediterranean principality. A Prince Albert lookalike had used a video contact supposedly from the ruler's own office to target the Riviera ...
Former Theranos biotech star Elizabeth Holmes charged with fraud over blood-testing claims
U.S. securities regulators on Wednesday charged the chief executive of the blood-testing company Theranos, Elizabeth Holmes, and a former president at the onetime soaring Silicon Valley startup with an "elaborate, years-long fraud." Holmes and Theranos made a deal to settle the case against them, with ...
Japan's juvenile crime at postwar record low, but rising marijuana use concerns police agency
The number of teens implicated in cases involving marijuana increased by more than fivefold between 2013 and 2017, the National Police Agency said, raising concern that use of the drug is spreading among juveniles. A total of 297 people aged between 14 and 19 were ...
Many of the dozens of black professionals interviewed last week said they are still struggling to change the racist perceptions of blacks that shadow them wherever they go in this country.
Criminals in Japan are profiting from the public's fear of prosecutors
A new type of transfer fraud in which perpetrators take advantage of their victims' fear of prosecution has sparked concern among law enforcement officials in recent weeks. The Public Prosecutor's Office and the Metropolitan Police Department have issued a statement warning people about a "wire ...
Lawyers move to settle with MRI International in Japan and U.S. over alleged Ponzi scheme
Trials in Japan and the United States over an alleged ¥130 billion ($1.2 billion) Ponzi scheme — in which Las Vegas-based investment firm MRI International Inc. targeted thousands of Japanese — are set to be settled out of court, a lawyers' group representing the ...
