By Mark Hunter3 weeks agoMon Feb 06 2023 10:05:42 Reading Time: 2 minutes A former Oxford University student has been jailed for four and a half years for a 2017 scam involving IOTA wallets Wybo Wiersma ran an IOTA wallet generating website which kept the keys, allowing him to steal the funds Wiersma made £2...
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In December, Greenpeace and the Socio-Environmental Institute (ISA) discovered a 150-kilometer- (93-mile-) long illegal road, as well as four hydraulic excavators in the Yanomami Territory, in Brazil’s northern Amazon region.While small-scale illegal miners have been active in the area for the past 50 years, the road and the use of heavy machinery could make mining...
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There are still 139,602,248 unregistered Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) cards in the Philippines based on the latest tally issued by the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC). The mandatory registration, which will end on April 26, 2023, seeks to end cybercrimes such as the rampant mobile phishing and text scams. Under the Republic Act No. 11934, also...
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QUITO, Jan 26 (Reuters) - Ecuador's government said on Thursday it has declared illegal mining a national security threat, saying it has connections to money laundering and arms trafficking, and said it will take actions to combat it.President Guillermo Lasso is looking to tamp down growing illegal mining activity in various places around the South...
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As Tough Elections Loom in Turkey, Erdogan Is Spending for VictoryPresident Recep Tayyip Erdogan is trying to soften the blow of inflation on the population and using legal threats to bolster his position ahead of a vote that could reshape his country.Credit...
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Grandparent scams are estimated to have claimed more than $9.2 million in Canada, a significant increase from $2.4 million in 2021. Author of the article: La Presse Canadienne Marie-Ève Martel Published Feb 05, 2023 • 1 minute read Join the conversation Quebecers were victims of $732,000 in grandparent scams in 2022, ranking behind Ontario and...
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A new thread has been created to raise awareness about a potential NFT Twitter scam impacting the Web3 community. According to danney.eth, several profiles have recently emerged and are ranking in the top 100 global reach on NFT Inspect. It is believed that the same group of individuals control these profiles and are engaging in...
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Image: Rawpixel/Shutterstock.com The U.S. Department of Justice and eight states, including California, filed suit against Google in a Virginia federal court on Tuesday, claiming that the company illegally used its market powers to dominate Internet advertising. In a court filing originally reported on by CNN, the DOJ and the states asked the court to, “at...
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We’ve seen the ladies of “The View” say a lot of dumb things to justify Democrats and the liberal narrative. But somehow they always seem to keep lowering that bar and Whoopi Goldberg took that deep dive. You know you’re getting into trouble when “The View” is talking about classified documents. That’s a bit like...
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The Atiku-Okowa Presidential Campaign of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has initiated legal procedures to disqualify Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, based on his conviction and sentence for drug trafficking in the United States.However, the APC PCC challenged the PDP quickly, stating that the party not only lacked creativity...
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