Marco Giovanni Santarelli, founder and CEO of Laguna Niguel fund Norada Capital Management, was sentenced to 33 months in federal prison and ordered to pay $63,165,357 in restitution for a promissory-note scheme that cost more than 400 investors about $63 million.
Norada Capital Management; Marco Giovanni Santarelli
A Schuyler County, NY jury convicted Naples contractor Joel Smith, 67, and Naples Contracting Inc. (also known as Diversified Contracting Co.) of stealing more than $50,000 from a customer's $90,000 home-improvement deposit. Sentencing is set for 17 December.
Naples Contracting Inc. (also known as Diversified Contracting Co.); Joel Smith
Nigeria's EFCC has arraigned three men accused of impersonating blogger Tunde Ednut and using bank accounts opened in that identity to collect β¦18,264,700 from the public. They pleaded not guilty; the case resumes 17 November 2026.
Raymond Charles Yafetus; Auwal Ibrahim; Babangida Yahaya Ibrahim
MalwareTips calls Friendsnycofficial.shop a High Risk (27/100) copycat 'official' store with a copied catalog; the real Brooklyn gift shop Friends NYC (friendsnyc.com) is not involved.
MalwareTips calls Myjurlique.shop a High Risk (30/100) copycat store built from a copied catalog that trades on the Jurlique name; Jurlique is not involved.
MalwareTips calls Hudabeautyjapan.com a fake copycat store that borrows Huda Beauty branding; Huda Beauty is not involved. The domain dates from January 2026 and scores 18/100 (Dangerous).
MalwareTips warns that kintaras.app imitates the Kintara game with a fake $KINS 'reward pool' that pushes visitors to connect crypto wallets; the real game is at kintara.com.
MalwareTips calls Hubbycarts.com a gift card scam: its 'Claim your $750 Target Gift Card' page leads into an affiliate network's sponsored-deal funnel. Target is not running the offer.
MalwareTips warns that the unverified RaidChest.com 'RAID rewards' page mimics Plarium promotion styling and asks players for a character name or ID; Plarium is not shown to be involved.
MalwareTips warns that a male-enhancement 'honey recipe' promotion falsely attributes a recommendation to Elon Musk; its HoneyFil purchase link runs through mynewsera.com to a differently named JellyFil offer.
Crypto commentator BigFang (@dafangbigfang) warns that a two-day-old YouTube channel, 'ε€§ζΉ BigFang Investments' (handle DafangCryptoAnalysis), is impersonating him and replying to his viewers as if it were him.
Lufthansa's verified X account warned that fake 'Lufthansa staff' accounts are replying to customers, after @ClaireDanerjzu pointed a traveller to the Gmail address lufthansasupportdesk9@gmail.com, which is not a Lufthansa channel.
MalwareTips says Thermaltakeaustraliagear.shop is a copycat store trading on the Thermaltake brand with a borrowed catalog; Thermaltake is not involved.
MalwareTips rates Raybeefurnitureca.shop Dangerous (12/100) and calls it a newly created scam store that may belong to a group of re-registering lookalike shops.
MalwareTips rates Skaterhq.shop High Risk (38/100) as part of a network of lookalike scam shops; it uses the Skater HQ name of a genuine Australian skate retailer, which is not involved.
MalwareTips rates Dreodeutschland.com Dangerous (15/100) as a dropshipping store in a scam network; its storefront uses the branding of appliance maker Dreo, which is not involved.
MalwareTips rates four-day-old Helancholy.shop High Risk (24/100); it runs on staticassethub.com, a storefront platform shared by a network of fake shops.
helancholy.shop
Storefront platform staticassethub.com (shared by fake-shop network)
MalwareTips says month-old Riftano.com is a fake crypto casino from the zosanx/zelowin kit that locks bonus balances behind crypto 'verification deposits'.
riftano.com
Same site kit as zosanx.com, zelowin.com, casxov.com, jetvos.com
MalwareTips says five-day-old Rainbetcasino.tech is a fake crypto casino from the membets.pw kit; it is not an official Rainbet site and Rainbet is not implicated.
rainbetcasino.tech
Same site kit as mgmwins.pw, slxwin.com, membets.pw, mgmresorts.pw
MalwareTips says two-week-old Bevawin.com is a fake crypto casino from the zabowex/renubet kit that locks bonus balances behind crypto 'verification deposits'.
bevawin.com
Same site kit as zabowex.com, renubet.com, raonax.win, mrbeastsgames.net
Two Georgia inmates were sentenced to 200 and 120 months in federal prison for a scheme in which they posed as local police and demanded 'bond' payments from people told they had missed jury duty.
Lance Riddle aka 'C-Port'; Joey Amour Jackson (convicted defendants)
OCBC Hong Kong warns of a fraudulent 'bank-confirm' page at carousell.shop-pay.lat that uses its name; the bank has no connection with the site and has reported it to the HKMA and police.
Proofpoint tracked about 17,000 domains used by the related CoGUI, CoAceV and CoFish_Ws phishing kits impersonating 66 mostly Japanese brands; indicators include kenandy.shop.
Norway's Finanstilsynet warns that trading platforms Altvecto, TradeInch and TradeToday are marketed to Norwegians without authorisation, using fake endorsements and AnyDesk remote access.