‘I’m Impersonating My Mother’s Scammer to Save Her’: How One Maltese Son Turned the Tables on Fraudsters Targeting Malta’s Elderly By Hot Malta Staff | 09 June 2025, 07:30 CEST Valletta – When 34-year-old Miguel* from Żejtun answered a WhatsApp call last March, he expected another routine check-in with his 72-year-old mother, Carmen. Instead, he…
Valletta’s law courts buzzed like a summer festa on Tuesday morning as word spread that 29-year-old Żabbar IT whizz Daniel Meli will not be shipped across the Atlantic to face American justice. Magistrate Gabriella Vella ruled that extraditing Meli—wanted by the FBI for allegedly hawking the “Warzone” remote-access trojan that infected thousands of U.S. computers—would…
# Fake Mr Beast Chat Costs Malta-Based Millionaire €1.25 Million in 24-Hour Scam Blitz Sliema, Malta – When 42-year-old iGaming tycoon “Christian” (name changed on legal advice) opened Instagram while waiting for his espresso at a busy St Julian’s café last Tuesday, the last thing he expected was to lose €1.25 million before the coffee…
Valletta’s courtroom number four was packed tighter than a festa pyrotechnics van yesterday when magistrate Rachel Montebello threw out freshly-arrived evidence from the FBI, ruling that the 2 000-page digital dossier landed too late to be fairly examined by 24-year-old Daniel Meli and his three co-accused. The decision is the latest twist in Malta’s first-ever…
