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The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) recently made headlines for busting an international investment scam syndicate that had raked in RM200 million from victims. The syndicate had lured victims to park money in non-existent investment portfolios, and had set up 24 companies which were used to temporarily hold the funds before they were siphoned off. What

Hong Kong is set to become a hub for the virtual asset (VA) industry with its most significant overhaul ever to cryptocurrency regulation. The proposal laid out by Hong Kong stipulates that all centralised virtual currency exchanges (VASPS) operating in the city or marketing services to the citizens must obtain a license from the Securities

In an effort to protect customers from impersonation scams, also known as spoofing scams, the National Australia Bank (NAB) has taken steps to help stop these fraudulent activities. Spoofing scams are when criminals use technology to disguise their identity and pretend to be someone else in order to gain access to personal information or money.

It’s no secret that Chinese billionaire businessman Guo Wengui and former Trump adviser Steve Bannon have been promoting the cryptocurrency HCOIN and the Himalaya Exchange. They claim that it would overthrow Beijing, but Investigator and Director of Argus Solutions George Andreopoulos believes that it has all the hallmarks of a scam. HCOIN is a cryptocurrency

Despite the mainstream belief that cryptocurrencies are entirely anonymous. Transactions for Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are publicly reported on the open-source blockchain ledgers that identify users solely by their cryptocurrency address – a long string of letters and numbers – without names, locations, or other personally identifying details. Law enforcement agencies, regulators, and financial investigators have

Infidelity is the breaking of a promise to remain faithful to a romantic partner, whether that promise was a part of marriage vows, a privately uttered agreement between lovers, or an unspoken assumption. As unthinkable as the notion of breaking such promises may be at the time they are made, infidelity is common, and when

The art of physical surveillance dates back to ancient times and is well documented in Sun Tzu’s “The Art of War”.  Throughout history, knowledge was considered to be power. The art of surveillance and intelligence collection is still used in various forms across the world today, to give governments, organisations and companies a strategic edge