Category: Nibble
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One Of Florida’s Biggest Ponzi Schemes – eCrimeBytes Nibble #35
Michael DaCorta was behind a FL Ponzi scheme tricking 700 victims into giving him $80 million dollars to invest. It looks like this was a traditional Ponzi scheme where earlier “investors” in…
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YouTuber Intentionally Crashes Plane For The Likes – eCrimeBytes Nibble #34
On Nov 24, 2021 Trevor Jacob took off from an airport in California. This was no ordinary flight as Jacob claimed to have the ashes of a friend with him. Oddly, his…
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Ex-Ubiquiti Engineer Sentenced To 6 Years For Data Theft And Extortion – eCrimeBytes Nibble #33
An ex-Ubiquiti engineer behind their massive 2020 data theft was sentenced to six years. Nickolas Sharp purchased and used SurfShark VPN to hide his IP address as he downloaded their GitHub repositories…
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Georgia Man Sentenced For Cyber Fraud Theft Of Over $2 Million, His Brother Is Still At Large – eCrimeBytes Nibble #31
In this case, Christian Akhatsegbe worked with others to defraud companies through fake invoices sent via stolen corporate credentials. Apparently the invoices looked real enough for one victim to pay nearly $1…
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Silk Road Dark Web Thief Sentenced, Also Forced To Forfeit $3.4 Billion – eCrimeBytes Nibble #30
You may have heard of the Silk Road, an online dark web forum to purchase drugs and other illegal items or services. You may not have known that an individual named James…
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Man Sentenced For Stealing 712 Bitcoin ($5m) Law Enforcement Seized From His Brother! – eCrimeBytes Nibble #29
Police seize man’s (Larry Harmon) Bitcoin for running a Bitcoin mixer service called Helix, but man’s brother (Gary Harmon) recreates the Bitcoins to steal them back! This all stems from the Larry…
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Sentencing In The 2020 Sturgis Sex Crime Sting – eCrimeBytes Nibble #28
In 2020 there were 8 arrests in a Sturgis sex crime sting. Cody Wayne Hopkins was one of those arrests. According to HSI, Hopkins started chatting with a 14 year old girl,…
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Deputy Arrested For Leaking Investigation On Snapchat – eCrimeBytes Nibble #27
Former deputy Giray Uzen has been charged for disclosing confidential criminal justice information when he took pictures of data about a street racing investigation and then posted it on Snapchat. This data…
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AI Flaws Land Innocent Man In Jail – eCrimeBytes Nibble #26
With ChatGPT all over the news, it felt important to show some of the flaws in AI technology. In this case, a surveillance video of a jewelry store robbery was supplied to…