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US sting operation catches crypto firms 'wash trading' to boost token values
Federal prosecutors set up a fake company to bust four crypto market makers, who they say artificia…
Kelly Cloonan
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M. Night Shyamalan's new thriller 'Trap' is inspired by the true story of a twisted sting operation
M. Night Shyamalan's new movie, "Trap," centers on a ruse to catch a serial killer at a concert. Th…
Olivia Singh
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Twitter's former head of safety posed as a child in sting operations to help catch potential pedophiles before joining the company
Del Harvey, the former head of Twitter's safety, once worked with "To Catch a Predator," Wired repo…
Sonam Sheth
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11 Israeli soldiers hospitalized for wasp stings after their tank ran over a swarm's nest in Gaza, report says
The IDF said the incident unfolded when a tank inadvertently disturbed a nest, prompting the insec…
Rebecca Rommen
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Riverside deputies sold meth to a dealer in an undercover sting gone wrong. The suspect took off with 60 pounds of meth.
Riverside deputies met the suspect to seal a 27-kilogram (nearly 60 lbs) meth deal but were caught …
Azmi Haroun
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A YouTuber with 2 million subscribers was accused of messaging a fake 13-year-old in a vigilante sting operation
Bryant Moreland, a YouTuber known as EDP445, was seemingly caught in a sting operation by another Y…
Steven Asarch
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UK foreign secretary 'appalled' by arrest of British Virgin Islands premier in DEA drug sting
Andrew Fahie was caught in a sting operation by the US Drug Enforcement Administration, whose agent…
Catherine Neilan
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A drug trafficker in prison tried to hire an undercover FBI officer as a hitman to kill an assistant US attorney. It was 2nd time he fell for a sting operation.
Richard Gilbert was originally locked up in 2019 after a police sting. Two years later, another und…
Madison Hall
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Texas temporarily suspended alcohol permits for 12 bars after an undercover sting operation found they violated coronavirus restrictions
The undercover operation comes about a month after Texas began reopening its economy, resulting in …
Isaac Scher
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The FBI used 'criminal influencers' to convince criminal syndicates to use a messaging app they secretly ran
The app, ANOM, was installed on barren phones with no video or camera capabilities, and was encrypt…
Azmi Haroun
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Apple refuses to unlock an iPhone for India’s top investigative agency
High security is a feature that everyone values on their devices. We do want our photos and messag…
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ICE is reportedly using fake Facebook accounts to track undocumented immigrants and lure them into sting operations
Díaz agreed to meet the person by a local bank to sell them the piñata, the Times reports. When she…
Aaron Holmes
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What the Allies' first humiliating encounter with the Nazis taught them about how to win World War II
The Battle of Kasserine Pass "was probably the worst performance of U.S. Army troops in their whole…
Benjamin Brimelow
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Multiple Disney employees were arrested in an underage sex sting in Florida, law-enforcement officials say
They are among 17 people charged in "Operation Child Protector," law-enforcement officials in Flori…
Kelly McLaughlin
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The FBI used photos of female staffers without permission in sexual predator stings, federal watchdog says
The FBI didn't trace the staffers' photos or how many times they were downloaded, copied, or dissem…
Madison Hall
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Boris Johnson's MPs are losing faith in him after a stinging by-election loss added to a series of political disasters
Conservative MPs told Insider that the by-election defeat would add to the dissatisfaction, frustra…
Henry Dyer,Thomas Colson
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ICE arrested an estimated 250 people who enrolled in a fake university set up by federal authorities as part of an immigration sting operation
The grand jury indictment filed against the eight recruiters alleged that "the University was being…
Grace Panetta
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ICE set up a fake university enrolling hundreds of foreign students as part of a sting operation
At first sight, the University of Farmington looked quite legit. Its professional website - with a …
Mariana Alfaro
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Banks are conducting sting operations on their own employees. Here’s why
Many are conducting exercises, in which forensic experts pose as customers and seek services that v…
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A dark web police sting led to 179 arrests and 500 kilograms of drugs seized
FBI Director Chris Wray said the bust came at a critical time as the pandemic has come with a spike…