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A former restaurant owner in Jefferson Park has been accused by his one-time landlord of defrauding the federal government out of $243,000 in pandemic aid. Sarto’s was a highly regarded Italian restaurant at 2900 W. 25th Ave. from 2014 until its closure in October 2020. It was founded by Taylor Swallow, who had been a real estate consultant and lender before leaving the corporate world and opening the restaurant. Federal records show that in March 2021, five months after it closed, Sarto’s received a $243,297 loan through…

Amazon is facing a lawsuit from the FTC over alleged deceptive practices with its Prime membership service. According to the lawsuit, Amazon had tricked customers into signing up for Amazon Prime memberships, then made it hard to cancel those memberships. Amazon “sabotaged” their attempts to cancel, the lawsuit states. Noting that the process was intentionally designed to steer customers away from cancelling. The signup process is at the heart of the matter. The FTC alleges that customers were unknowingly signing up for…

A software engineer working with an IT company here was allegedly duped of around ₹42 lakh by scammers who lured him into earning handsome money by liking some videos, police said on Saturday. The man was added to a group on the Telegram Messenger app and asked to invest, but later he was not allowed to withdraw that sum. According to a complaint filed by a resident of Sector 102 here, on March 24, he received a message on his WhatsApp, claiming that he can earn extra income by doing a part-time job of liking videos on…

Two persons, including a businessman, were collectively duped of ₹57 lakh in separate cases of online fraud, police said on Wednesday.While in the first case a businessman was allegedly duped of ₹42 lakh by his social media friend over a business proposal, in the second, a woman was duped of ₹15 lakh after she clicked on a link while searching for the customer care number of a courier company, they said. According to the first FIR, a proprietor named Sunil Arora was defrauded of ₹42 lakh by one Shreya Joshi with whom…

Some unidentified fraudsters allegedly duped a company of ₹35 lakh by apparently tampering with its online payment gateway system, police said on Saturday.Ankit Rawat, the national head of operations at Parviom Technologies Pvt. Ltd., in his complaint said that his company uses the payment gateway services of Cashfree, which was breached resulting in 35 UPI transactions after getting unauthorised access to the systems through its dashboard. “Through the fraudulent transactions a total of around ₹35 lakh were…

A man from Delhi was allegedly duped of Rs. 29 lakh by unidentified people on pretext of selling iPhone on Instagram, the police said.A case of fraud has been registered against unidentified persons on the basis of a complaint lodged by the victim.The complainant identified as Vikas Katiyar is a resident of Ghitorni, Delhi, officials said.The complainant Katiyar told the police, a few days back, he came on one Instagram page where he found iPhone models at discounted rates and he was tempted to buy one.The complainant…

A man from Delhi was allegedly duped of ₹29 lakh by unidentified people on pretext of selling iPhones on Instagram, the police said. A case of fraud has been registered against unidentified persons on the basis of a complaint lodged by the victim. The complainant identified as Vikas Katiyar is a resident of Ghitorni, Delhi, officials said. The complainant Katiyar told the police, a few days back, he came on one Instagram page where he found iPhones at discounted rates and he was tempted to buy one. The…

Delhi resident Vikar Katiyar was recently defrauded of Rs 29 lakh in a scam running on Instagram on the pretext of selling Apple iPhones for cheap. Katiyar told police that he came across an Instagram page where iPhones were listed at discounted prices. Tempted to buy one for cheap, he did his due diligence to ensure that the page was a genuine one. He even contacted old buyers from another Instagram page who confirmed that the page was a genuine one, his complaint said. Katiyar contacted the…

A journalist has alleged cyber fraud with her by a "Europe-based person" with whom she got connected through an online dating app, prompting the Noida police to launch an investigation into the case, officials said on Thursday. The journalist (39) working with a TV news channel here claimed she lost ₹66,000 which she had to pay to the “customs office” in Mumbai to help the suspect whose "euro one lakh cash" got seized upon landing in India, they said. The suspect identified himself as Manvik Bukka, a plastic…

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