[ad_1] Major Canadian banks went offline for hours blocking access to online and mobile banking as well as e-transfers for customers. The banks reportedly hit by the outage include Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), BMO (Bank of Montreal), Scotiabank, and the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC). Online banking and e-Transfers down for many Canada’s major banks went...Read More

[ad_1] Inspections on avocados from Mexico’s Michoacán state were paused for almost a week after an agricultural inspector received a verbal threat. But on Friday, the U.S. Embassy said inspections would continue, allowing avocado shipments to resume. Marco Ugarte/AP hide caption toggle caption Marco Ugarte/AP Inspections on avocados from Mexico’s Michoacán state were paused for...Read More

[ad_1] “I don’t think there’s such a thing as love, you know, romantic love. It’s something we tell ourselves, maybe to feel better,” a teary-eyed Kritika says with a smile. She has just logged out of her third online appointment with a therapist who is helping her deal with a “romance scam”. It started in...Read More

[ad_1] Rep. Elise Stefanik has declared war on administrators of an upstate school district for allegedly suspending a pre-school teacher for sharing the lawmaker’s Facebook posts. A Jan. 25 post from Stefanik offered a furious denunciation of Gov. Hochul’s plans to continue a statewide mask mandate — even after it was struck down by a...Read More

[ad_1] The US sitcom Friends holds a unique place in Chinese pop culture.  It’s one of the most beloved foreign TV shows in China and watching it was many Chinese fans’ first exposure to American culture. “I started watching Friends in year six and it means a great deal to me, just like a companion...Read More

[ad_1] Crypto pump-and-dumps are when people (conspirators) use misleading information to raise the price of a cryptocurrency so they can sell it and profit from there. It’s also explained as a coin’s founders, collaborators, or a group of traders spreading misleading information to inflate the price of an asset before selling the shares for a...Read More

[ad_1] Three former Connecticut residents were found guilty of charges related to their participation in scams that defrauded hundreds of victims across the United States of a total of more than $5 million. Farouq Fasasi, age 27, 31-year-old Rodney Thomas Jr., and 32-year-old Ralph Pierre, all ex-New Haven residents, were convicted on Tuesday, Feb. 15,...Read More

[ad_1] In brief Singapore authorities are looking to address the recent spate of SMS-phishing scams targeting digital bank users through a variety of measures. The multi-stake holder approach involves government entities with responsibilities for the financial, telecommunications and home affairs sectors, as well as industry groups such as the Association of Banks in Singapore (ABS)....Read More

[ad_1] The FBI is warning consumers about SIM swapping, a resurgent identity theft scam perhaps best known for having once duped Block CEO Jack Dorsey in 2019. The scam isn’t new, but cases are skyrocketing: The FBI says that victims lost $68 million to this SIM-card based scam in 2021, compared to just $12 million...Read More

[ad_1] Federal authorities have been investigating Andrew Wiederhorn, chief executive of the company that owns the Fatburger and Johnny Rockets restaurant chains, and examining one of his family member’s actions as part of an inquiry into allegations of securities and wire fraud, money laundering and attempted tax evasion, court records show. During the probe, federal...Read More