scams

Hackers recently hijacked the Discord server for the renowned Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT collection. On Twitter, the BAYC team confirmed the breach.

Lori Loughlin has been approved to serve her upcoming sentence at a federal prison in Victorville, Calif. — her first choice of slammers, according to new court docs. A judge has signed off on the “Full House” actress’ request to do her time at the facility, which is the federal lockup nearest to her home, …

A sticky-fingered scammer impersonated Rolling Stones star Ronnie Wood, duped a woman into a romance — and then tried to con her out of more than $8,000. Now, Stones lover Mary Downey tells Page Six she was left terrified by the ordeal. Downey — a casting director who worked on “Star Search” — tells us …

A scammer is sending bogus emails from the US Small Business Administration to steal personal information from unsuspecting Americans, the feds have warned. The messages direct potential victims to a malicious webpage disguised as an SBA website that the “unknown malicious cyber actor” uses to steal credentials, according to an alert from the Department of …

A top psychic is fighting back after being accused of a despicable crime. Tammy Adams is considered a go-to seer in Malibu, Calif., we’re told, with several A-list clients. But she’s been accused in court papers of scamming a 73-year-old kindergarten teacher out of her home and savings. The alleged victim, Victoria Nelson, claims in …

Famed Park Avenue plastic surgeon Dr. Andrew Jacono is dealing with a multitude of imposters who are pretending to be him on social media, catfishing his patients to wire money — and even carrying out consultations. The pretenders have been trolling Jacono’s Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp accounts, then getting the e-mail addresses of his followers, …

Captain Lee has been hijacked. Page Six has learned that the beloved “Below Deck” star has unwittingly become involved in an elaborate online scam. Sources say that fraudsters are impersonating the captain and pretending that he’s become a recruiter for cruise giant Princess. They’ve even mocked up his passport — featuring a promo shot lifted …

Scammers and thieves supposedly made off with around $24 million in Bitcoin in the first six months of 2020, according to reports. Twitter bot Whale Alert, which tracks large transactions of cryptocurrency such as Bitcoin, worked with Scam Alert to produce a “crime reporting, tracking and analysis” report. Bitcoins, as a digital cryptocurrency, verifies every …

Now he’ll be the one spending time in the can. The former CEO of Bumble Bee Foods on Tuesday was sentenced to more than three years in federal prison for his role in a conspiracy to fix the price of canned tuna. Christopher Lischewski had been convicted of one felony count in the fishy scheme …

The woman behind a virtual philanthropic conference that promised George Clooney, Matthew McConaughey and other A-listers, but allegedly turned out to be a sham, has been claiming she worked with Clooney for years, said a source. In an e-mail seen by Page Six, Stephanie Lapensee claims she has worked alongside Clooney on numerous charity projects …