Reported by Alex Oliveira (Excerpt shared below. To read full report, go to: https://nypost.com/2025/10/23/us-news/how-mafiosos-and-nba-stars-used-rigged-card-shufflers-x-ray-tables-and-secret-contact-lenses-in-poker-scam/) NYC mafiosos and NBA stars used a combination of high-tech contraptions and old-school gambling tricks to swindle hapless high-rollers out of $7 million in a sprawling backroom poker scheme, prosecutors alleged in an explosive indictment Thursday. The years-long con depended on “advanced […]

Reported by JACOB SIMS, ERIN WEST and JASON TOWER (Excerpt shared below. To read full report and announcement, go to: https://thehill.com/opinion/congress-blog/technology/5565543-congress-targets-foreign-scam-syndicates/amp/ and https://www.foreign.senate.gov/press/dem/release/ranking-member-shaheen-senator-cornyn-introduce-bill-to-counter-foreign-cyber-scams) Last year, Americans lost over $10 billion dollars to sophisticated online scamming operations run out of Southeast Asia. Last week, the Department of Justice seized $15 billion in Bitcoin from the Cambodia-based “forced labor scam compound,” […]