Tag: fraud
FAM to build ‘beach stadium’ in Blantyre
"Will the stadium come with a lake?" critics ask after FAM tender sparks ridicule Football Association of Malawi (FAM) has become the target of online ridicule after inviting bids for the construction of a "Beach Soccer Stadium" in Blantyre, a city with no lake or coastline. The tender notice, released as part of FAM's 2026...
The flaw of attraction
I recently wrote about how my journey into the mindfulness world re-exposed me to the racist grifters using mindfulness as a cash cow, and today I want to look at another sad reality I keep finding in the mindfulness world: the continued pseudoscientific myth of the “Law of Attraction.”
Bushiri’s Goshen City reveals contractual disputes with Thandi Chisi
...Says issues should have been resolved privately ...First public admission of tensions between reigning Miss Malawi and organisers The Miss Malawi controversy took another unexpected turn on Friday after Prophet Shepherd Bushiri's Goshen City disclosed for the first time that reigning Miss Malawi Thandi Chisi is involved in contractual disputes with the Miss Malawi Organisation....
Build It and They'll Come: How Fraud Co-Evolves with Digital Infrastructure
Part 2 of 2. Part 1 covered the history of digital identity in Brazil and the data infrastructure that made industrial-scale fraud possible. This piece examines why fraud doesn't attack weak systems, but good ones, and what that means for every country building digital public infrastructure today. There is a pattern in Brazil's fraud history that becomes visible only in retrospect. Every major expansion of digital infrastructure, for example: pix, frictionless onboarding, facial biometrics, What...
Built for Access: How Brazil's Identity System Opened a Door It Wasn't Designed to Close
Part 1 of 2. This piece covers the history of digital identity in Brazil and the data infrastructure that made industrial scale fraud possible. Part 2 covers how fraud co-evolves with digital infrastructure, and what that means for every country building digital infrastructure for identities today. We tend to talk about digital fraud as if it were a technology problem. A bug to patch, a model to retrain, a vendor to procure. But the deeper you look at how Brazil's identity infrastructure actuall...
Phar Too Ambitious
The story of Phar-Mor, the pharmacy chain that decided that just being a pharmacy chain wasn’t interesting enough and tried to beat Walmart.
The Shell Game
If you're looking to start a shell company and don't want anyone to know, it's really easy. Hey, Sheldon Adelson did it.