#internet scam

A 71-year-old woman from Paphos has reported falling victim to an online investment scam after responding to an advertisement promoting what was presented as a state-backed investment platform, police said ...

A fake news scam which has circulated on social media in recent weeks has posed as the Cyprus Mail and Cypriot businessman Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou. The website, hosted at “zenform....

A 45-year-old man from Paphos lost €8,500 after falling for an internet scam, the police said on Monday. The police said the man told them that on Sunday, he had received ...

A 76-year-old woman reported she was scammed out of €145,000 by an unknown person, police reported on Friday. According to her complaint, on May 15 she contacted an unknown man through an ...

A 54-year-old man from Limassol was arrested on Friday night on suspicion of having operated a pyramid scheme. He was remanded in custody for eight days on Saturday, accused of ...

The Cyprus Post Office on Wednesday issued another official warning to the public about a scam perpetrated through Facebook. The scam concerns the alleged sale of unclaimed postal parcels located ...

Police are investigating a case of internet fraud wherein a scam artist managed to extract more than €80,000 from a company based in Nicosia. The case was reported to police by ...

A 55-year-old woman fell victim to an internet scam, after she lost €29,300 that were transferred to a bank account in Portugal, police said on Sunday. According to deputy police chief ...

Police were investigating an internet scam on Friday after a 29-year-old woman claimed she was swindled out of over €1,000 for an apartment in Limassol. According to authorities, the woman had ...

A Limassol company has been scammed out of $156,000 with the police on Friday issuing fresh warnings over online and financial fraud. The case was reported to the authorities on Thursday ...

Frauds are as old as the hills, but they’re proliferating in the age of hacking and data harvesting Every day seems to bring news of another online scam, inevitably ...

Cyprus’ cyber security response unit on Wednesday warned that cyberattacks and cybercrime were becoming more common, and the public needed to become more aware of how to protect their online ...

Limassol police are investigating an email fraud case after a 41-year-old businessman reported he lost more than €38,000. The case was reported to the police on September 14, with the complainant claiming ...

Police on Friday called on people to be cautious when carrying out online purchases after receiving another complaint from a company that they were scammed into paying more than €40,000 to ...

Paphos police on Monday said they are investigating an internet scam amounting to €21,000 following a complaint by a permanent resident last December. The complaint was made by the director of ...