Scams & Fraud

19+ hour, 44+ min ago   (96+ words) WJRT ABC12 Ex-Midland pastor denied new trial Terry Camp anchors ABC12 News First at Four and ABC12 News at 5:30. He also reports on issues in the Great Lakes Bay Region. US auto factories disrupted by Canadian trucker rally Michigan easing guidelines for quarantining…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (189+ words) Frederick Haynes, the senior pastor of Dallas’s Friendship-West Baptist Church, was named in a 2009 racial discrimination lawsuit filed against the church by his former executive assistant Elizabeth Payne. Haynes jumped into the race for Texas’s 30th Congressional District last year after…...

2+ day, 2+ hour ago   (270+ words) The State A pastor and his wife at a Columbia-area church face criminal charges after investigators said they misused more than $200,000 in donations for personal expenses. The couple turned themselves in Tuesday following a financial audit that uncovered the alleged…...

2+ day, 3+ hour ago   (398+ words) BREAKING: Abducted 20 NYSC Corps members, one other regain freedom in Imo Police operatives have arrested one Adewale Ogoemi Arojah for allegedly impersonating a popular prophet on Facebook and defrauding several victims of more than ₦18 million in Ajegunle, along the Ilaro…...

3+ day, 10+ hour ago   (427+ words) David-Chyddy Eleke in Awka There was mild drama at the Anambra State High Court in Awka yesterday as persons suspected to be supporters and church members of the General Overseer of Dayspring Assembly, Awada-Obosi, Pastor Harrison Anazodo, attacked journalists and…...

4+ day, 1+ hour ago   (461+ words) Two major churches in South Korea have been struck by suspected hacking incidents. Sensitive information, including church members' personal details and tithing records, appears to have been leaked. Signs suggest that artificial intelligence was utilized in these cyberattacks as well....

4+ day, 3+ hour ago   (530+ words) The Anambra State High Court sitting in Awka has denied bail to an Onitsha-based spiritualist, Harrison Anazodo, over allegations bordering on human trafficking, abduction and forced marriage involving women. Anazodo, who is also alleged to have abducted a mother and…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (463+ words) According to court documents, Feucht met with Bray in his Anaheim office on March 6, 2023, seeking a donation for his Kingdom to Capitol Tour, which he planned to take to all 50 states. Bray said in the complaint that he agreed to…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (971+ words) A former Tulsa pastor pleaded guilty to federal bank fraud and tax evasion after prosecutors accused him of diverting more than $504,000 from a historic Black church. Prosecutors say Keith Rydell Mayes Sr. used some of the money from Vernon AME…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (237+ words) A Delaware pastor with ties to Delaware County was sentenced to 18 months in prison on charges of defrauding a pandemic relief program and committing tax fraud, U.S. Attorney David Metcalf announced. Brian Pitman, 47, also was sentenced to two years of supervised…...