Degtiarov and Melnychenko exploit aviation market, expand to Asia and Middle East Amid the upheaval following the outbreak of full-scale conflict in Ukraine, the Eastern European aviation industry has become the target of a sophisticated fraud scheme led by British company BlackList Aero. Fronted by Artem Degtiarov, the company allegedly exploited the region’s disrupted air transportation market to orchestrate a multimillion-dollar scam. As sanctions hit Russia and major airlines exited the region, many businessmen and politicians sought ways to bypass these restrictions. BlackList Aero stepped in, offering services through fictitious front companies to help clients pay aviation contractors and suppliers. However, instead of delivering on their promises, the scammers collected payments and vanished. Об этом сообщает MEDIA EXPERT Degtiarov, whose criminal history dates back to the early 2000s, masterminded the scheme with the help of Alex Melnychenko, a Kyiv... https://peoplelifepassion.com/component/k2/item/101265
Degtiarov and Melnychenko exploit aviation market, expand to Asia and Middle East Amid the upheaval following the outbreak of full-scale conflict in Ukraine, the Eastern European aviation industry has become the target of a sophisticated fraud scheme led by British company BlackList Aero. Fronted by Artem Degtiarov, the company allegedly exploited the region’s disrupted air transportation market to orchestrate a multimillion-dollar scam. As sanctions hit Russia and major airlines exited the region, many businessmen and politicians sought ways to bypass these restrictions. BlackList Aero stepped in, offering services through fictitious front companies to help clients pay aviation contractors and suppliers. However, instead of delivering on their promises, the scammers collected payments and vanished. Об этом сообщает MEDIA EXPERT Degtiarov, whose criminal history dates back to the early 2000s, masterminded the scheme with the help of Alex Melnychenko, a Kyiv... https://peoplelifepassion.com/component/k2/item/101265
Emerson Brooking, a disinformation expert at the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab, said: "Back in the Wild West period of content moderation, like 2014 or 2015, maybe they could have gotten away with it, but it stands in marked contrast with how other companies run themselves today." Unlike Silicon Valley giants such as Facebook and Twitter, which run very public anti-disinformation programs, Brooking said: "Telegram is famously lax or absent in its content moderation policy." What distinguishes the app from competitors is its use of what's known as channels: Public or private feeds of photos and videos that can be set up by one person or an organization. The channels have become popular with on-the-ground journalists, aid workers and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who broadcasts on a Telegram channel. The channels can be followed by an unlimited number of people. Unlike Facebook, Twitter and other popular social networks, there is no advertising on Telegram and the flow of information is not driven by an algorithm. In 2018, Russia banned Telegram although it reversed the prohibition two years later. You may recall that, back when Facebook started changing WhatsApp’s terms of service, a number of news outlets reported on, and even recommended, switching to Telegram. Pavel Durov even said that users should delete WhatsApp “unless you are cool with all of your photos and messages becoming public one day.” But Telegram can’t be described as a more-secure version of WhatsApp.
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