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Illustrative. BioCatch software in use on a phone. (YouTube screenshot)
August 3, 2026, 10:34 pm
Visa to buy Israeli cyber firm for $2.4 billion to fight AI-driven scams
BioCatch is the developer of a behavioral biometrics platform that analyzes mouse movement, phone tapping or keyboard typing to detect financial fraud before payments are made
By Sharon Wrobel
Illustrative: A youth crosses a street in Monsey, Rockland County, New York, on April 5, 2019. (Johannes Eisele/AFP/File)
March 31, 2025, 10:28 pm
NY State blocks car wash’s ‘discriminatory’ Passover scam
Investigation finds that Super 4 Seasons charged Jews higher rate for cleaning ahead of holiday ‘because their cars are so dirty,’ falsely said standard services were not available
By Luke Tress
Stamps representing European principalities, such as Monaco, found by police while searching the Netanya home of a scam artist who allegedly posed as the secretary general of the Elysée Palace, the French president's official residence, January 24, 2023. (Israel Police)
January 24, 2023, 2:50 pm
Alleged Netanya fraudster arrested for posing as head of French presidential palace
Man suspected of faking position using special computer program to try to scam European diplomats, including ambassadors
By Michael Horovitz
Illustrative: A policeman holds handcuffs. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)
June 9, 2022, 5:12 pm
Israeli extradited to Germany over alleged part in massive investment scam
Authorities say Yuri Dashevsky is part of an organized gang that from 2015 to 2019 persuaded investors to invest in fictitious financial instruments
By ToI Staff and Simona Weinglass
'Tinder Swindler,' a true-crime documentary about Israeli con man Shimon Hayut, was released on Netflix, on February 2, 2022. (Courtesy: Netflix)
February 15, 2022, 11:54 pm
‘Tinder Swindler’ seduces way to top of Netflix charts
Film depicting true story of Israeli con man Shimon Hayut, who bamboozled girls by pretending to be diamond scion, becomes first documentary to lead Netflix viewership globally
By Tobias Siegal
A cockroach, file photo (Photo credit: CC-BY-SA Sputnikit Wikimedia Commons)
February 17, 2020, 5:00 am
Man caught slipping cockroach into burger in bid for free meal
Jerusalem hamburger restaurant investigates after customer complains of bug in his food, and discovers he brought it from home
By ToI Staff
A screenshot from the trailer of the French feature film "Carbone" (2017), a fictionalized account of the Carbon-VAT scam. The screenshot shows several alleged French-Israeli scammers running a scam from offices in Tel Aviv (Screenshot)
November 18, 2019, 12:36 pm
French police: French-Israeli scams one of top crime trends afflicting France
Israeli authorities insist all immigrants are carefully vetted, but acknowledge they have not systematically studied the issue
By PIERRE-SIMON ASSOULINE and Simona Weinglass
'A Different Pesach' promised guests a private villa, kosher food and other amenities (YouTube screenshot)
April 26, 2019, 3:25 am
Florida Passover vacationers left in lurch when organizer fails to pay bills
Hundreds of guests face eviction from resort after company head leaves them with $75,000 unpaid
By Josefin Dolsten
French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian leaves the Elysee presidential palace in Paris after a weekly cabinet meeting, on May 30, 2018 (AFP Photo/Ludovic Marin)
March 29, 2019, 1:17 pm
French-Israelis said to swindle millions by impersonating foreign minister
Three arrested in Israel on suspicions they scammed money they said would be used to pay ransoms of French citizens held in Mali and Syria
By ToI Staff
A sample biometric 'smart card' (photo credit: Lior Mizrahi/Flash 90)
March 14, 2019, 1:45 am
Central Elections Committee warns of identity theft effort committed in its name
Scammers said pretending to represent committee, asking for targets’ personal details on trumped up pretexts
By Sue Surkes
The Rumbach Street Synagogue (CC BY-SA Thaler Tamas/Wikimedia Commons)
February 22, 2019, 4:00 pm
Scammers steal $437k from Hungarian Jews’ synagogue renovation project
Suspects convinced two employees of the Mazsihisz Jewish federation to wire government-awarded funds to a fake account
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Illustrative photo of doctor with stethoscope (BrianAJackson / Getty Images)
November 5, 2018, 6:24 pm
Police arrest suspect for posing as doctor to give breast exams
53-year-old publishing executive from Herzliya alleged to have sexually assaulted dozens of women under the guise of medical consultations
By ToI Staff
Howard Kaplan
October 6, 2017, 10:36 am
Howard Kaplan
I gave a scam-artist $200
Jews are a family, so of course I said I’d help out
Members of the federal police carry a Nazi statue at the Interpol headquarters in Buenos Aires, Argentina, June 16, 2017. (AP/Natacha Pisarenko)
July 5, 2017, 12:08 pm
Top collector cries foul on Nazi memorabilia trove uncovered in Buenos Aires
Argentinian officials claim recently discovered Nazi-era artifacts are ‘original pieces’; some US-based aficionados of Third Reich collectibles beg to differ
By Matt Lebovic
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon attend the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on January 22, 2017. (Alex Kolomoisky/Pool)
June 17, 2017, 9:51 pm
After months of delay, Israeli cabinet to vote Sunday on law to ban binary options
In unusual move, Kahlon to present legislation directly to cabinet. Anticipating closure of multi-billion dollar, widely fraudulent industry, some firms moving overseas
By Simona Weinglass
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