Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

A Stuart man was ordered Feb. 4 to pay more than $1.1 million for being the "master trader" of a fraudulent $100 million cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme, court records show. Joshua Nicholas, 30, was ...

At the beginning of 2025, panic about fraud and human trafficking erupted on Chinese social media. It started when a Chinese actor called Wang Xing was tricked into travelling to Thailand for an ...

Barely a day goes by without a scam of some kind popping up on our phones or in our email, trying to get us to download malware, reveal a password or pay for fraudulent goods. But there’s one bit of ...

Back when I had helped launch a New Orleans website at the turn of the century, a co-worker told a few of us about a Romanian woman he had met online. He said he was sending her some money to help her ...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is warning people to be on the lookout for a growing scam with a bloody name. Known as “Sha Zhu Pan,” a Chinese phrase that loosely translates to “pig butchering,” ...

It took two months of near daily conversations, of first cultivating trust and then love, before he walked into her trap. Two months of phone calls, text messages and video chats. Two months of ...