Prison term for charitable trust fraudster Hemo Thompson
Former financial manager of a social services trust sentenced to jail.
Former financial manager of a social services trust sentenced to jail.
Netsafe has released its first-quarter report on online scams.
The IRD says the email is convincing, but there are important clues that it's a fake.
Police say there could be more victims throughout the Waikato.
The money was stolen from a trust which helps underprivileged people.
Victims left heartbroken and out of pocket after sophisticated scam.
About $1.35 billion of criminal proceeds is generated for money laundering every year.
More Kiwis sucked into apparent global investment scam.
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Once valued at $14.3b, Holmes' company was a house of cards built on secrecy and lies.
The scheme involved bribing bankers, one of whom has fled the country.
The fancy cars, high-rolling credit cards and lavish parties disappeared with the banker.
A broker who spotted a scam says the signs were obvious to an outsider.
He was arrested trying to board a flight to China after squandering the money.
"It's his money, he can pretty much do what he wants with it."
"The sad reality is it is growing, it is constant and it is continual."
The Olympic great was a victim of a cheque fraud scheme which threatened his treatment.
Former charitable trust financial manager convicted of 167 dishonesty charges.
They spent their childhood in Whanganui; now they face life in an Aussie prison
Fraudsters told Michael Hawk he had won $200,000 as part of a Facebook promo.
The forgeries saw Dunedin scientist obtain the drugs codeine, tramadol and diazapam.
Twenty-two year old posed as a multi-millionaire aristocrat but was really a normal guy.
US officials are probing whether traders are manipulating the price of Bitcoin.
Property consultant stole $300k from council over eight years.
The money that the former Queen St broker laundered allegedly helped conceal drug trading.
More than 76 properties were involved, while "bribes" allegedly were given to bankers.
Steel bars couldn't stop the criminal from continuing to scam investors.
A series of false statements helped a group of businessmen develop an Auckland hotel.