#scam

The police on Sunday warned people to not fall victim to online scams after a tyre shop owner lost more than €13,000 when he bought tyres on the internet which turned ...

A fake news scam which has circulated on Facebook in recent days has posed as the Cyprus Mail in an attempt to lure people in to an investment scam. The ...

By Robert Morgan Beware of fraudulent e-mails from sender “Service EMS official” and [email protected], the postal service warned on Friday. The fraudulent messages falsely claim to be related ...

A 61-year-old man who scammed someone out of €63,000 was charged in writing and then released, police said on Wednesday. The man allegedly took the money from a 60-year-old man under ...

A 60-year-old Limassol resident has lost €55,000 in an online scam, police said on Tuesday. According to the police report, the man made a complaint to Limassol CID that between 2020 and 2021, ...

A 61-year-old was remanded by the Famagusta District Court for five days, on suspicion of scamming another individual out of thousands of euros, authorities said on Saturday. The 61-year-old claimed ...

Police cautioned the public on Sunday to be wary about the fake emails from the justice ministry. According to police, they have received a several complaints over the past few ...

A company in Limassol has fallen victim to online cheats operating out of Chile by ordering meat and losing thousands of euro, the police said on Saturday. The case is ...

A 42-year-old woman from Limassol informed police on Friday she had fallen victim to a cryptocurrency scam and lost a total of €19,200. The woman said she had been contacted online ...

The Health Insurance Organisation (HIO) warned on Tuesday of a recent surge in the sending of false and malicious messages to mobile phones, using the name and logo of national ...

Police are searching for a 31-year-old man after reports that €53,000 has been stolen from various individuals who claim to have been cheated by a person claiming to be a vehicle ...

Nicosia police on Wednesday arrested a man suspected of scamming a woman out of almost 20,000 worth of jewellery and cash last week. The 55-year-old man is the second suspect arrested ...

Police in Limassol are investigating a case of potential online fraud and embezzlement following a complaint from a 42-year-old man on Monday who tried to invest more than €30,000 in cryptocurrency. ...

The postal services on Monday warned of a new attempt to defraud the public with text messages using name of the ‘Cyprus Post Office’. The department said that recipients are ...

Police on Tuesday warned of yet another scam they had unfolded after a Paphos kiosk was roped out of €700 from a fake PaySafe prepaid card rep. According to a police ...

Police are investigating an alleged scam in which a woman from Nicosia lost over €77,000. The woman, aged 49, was allegedly persuaded by an unknown person via social media to invest money ...

Police on Saturday urged the public to be cautious about a new scam on Instagram asking people to vote in a contest. According to the police’s electronic crime unit, ...

Inland Revenue warned on Saturday that electronic messages are circulating with the government domain @gov.cy purporting to be from the tax office and requesting banking information from recipients “in ...

The police on Sunday arrested two people for separate cases of theft, both of which saw the victims being robbed of thousands of euro. A 31-year-old man was arrested in ...

The electricity authority (EAC) on Friday warned consumers to be cautious of people posing as agents of the authority, who are scamming people for money. According to an announcement from ...

The police on Tuesday warned the public of possible scams via SMS that appear to have been sent by the Cyprus Post. The particular scam concerns fake SMS messages requesting ...

A 27-year-old man has been arrested for extortion after allegedly tricking two people into paying €6,000 for a two-week private cruise around the Greek islands but directing them instead to a ...

Hellenic Bank on Thursday urged its customers to exercise caution amid a surge in fraud and scam attempts being made particularly over SMS, emphasising that employees will never ask for ...

A pensioner has reported he was scammed out of over €67,500 in an online cryptocurrency scam. Nicosia police are investigating after the 73-year-old man complained that in June he was contacted ...