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Yahoo
5 hours ago
- Yahoo
'He lied to my face': Basildon Facebook marketplace scammer steals £1,450 camera
A FACEBOOK Marketplace scam has left a Basildon man £1,450 out of pocket after he was tricked into handing over a camera with a fake bank transfer. Liam Hopper, 31, said the con had a 'massive impact' on his livelihood as a photographer after he fell victim to a man using a fake banking app to pay for the camera before vanishing and deleting his Facebook account. Despite being savvy to online scams, Liam said the man's friendliness in person when he came to collect the camera skewed his judgement when he handed it over. Impact - Liam is a videographer and photographer by trade and says the loss of the camera means he will have to take out a loan to replace it and keep working (Image: Liam Hopper) Liam said: "When he arrived we went into my garage so he could check the camera, he told me he didn't know much about them and he was buying it as a gift for his girlfriend. "He agreed to buy it and brought up a mobile banking app, I entered my details and it all came up correctly with the right bank; it didn't set off any alarm bells. "We waited for five minutes and nothing happened, I said I can't let you take it without the money. "I didn't realise when I gave my bank details it was a foreign bank account, at the bottom it said transactions can take between one and two working days. "I thought it will pop in on Monday and let him walk away with the camera, but as time went by I began to think 'what have I done?'" "Sure enough I went on Facebook to message him and the account was gone, as was the number he rang me on." Theft - The moment the man walks away with the camera knowing the money won't go through (Image: Liam Hopper) Following the incident on Sunday, Liam has reported the incident to police and is now urging residents to be aware. Liam added: "It's my livelihood. My business insurance won't cover it because it's classed as deception rather than theft, if he had prized it out of my hands I would be able to get my money back. "I will have to take out a loan to be able to do my job. Losing the money isn't the most aggravating thing, if I had dropped it and it smashed I could put it down to bad luck but he came into my house and lied to my face." "I recognise online scams all the time, I've grown up with the internet; but I suppose having met and spoken with him I let my guard down. "I'll never use Facebook again, there's no recourse against these scammers on their platform, zero accountability."
The Sun
10 hours ago
- General
- The Sun
Incredible pictures show moment seagull SHATTERS cockpit of £73MILLION warplane
A WARPLANE strikes a seagull at an airshow display — shattering the cockpit canopy. Incredibly the pilot was unharmed and able to land the £73million Eurofighter safely. 4 A photographer captured the split-second strike over the San Javier Air Base in Murcia, Spain, on June 15. But snapper Javier Alonso de Medina Salguero said he realised what had happened only after checking his photos. They show the gull swooping into the path of the jet, before the bird is hit and smashes a giant hole in the canopy. A huge cloud of debris can then be seen exploding out from the pilot's cockpit area Javier added: "I was at the base in the San Javier area, at the site where they took us photographers. 'We were watching the Eurofighter display when we saw it leave without finishing. "They reported over the radio it hit a seagull. "I had the whole sequence.' 4
Reuters
17 hours ago
- Sport
- Reuters
Vingegaard hits deck after being jostled by photographer post-finish
MALAUCENE, France, July 22 (Reuters) - Jonas Vingegaard hit the deck after the finish of the 16th stage of the Tour de France when he was jostled by a photographer on the top of Mont Ventoux, the two-time Tour de France champion said on Tuesday. "Some photographer just ran straight in front of me straight after the finish line, I don't know what he was doing," the Danish rider told reporters. "Yeah I went down. People in the finish area should use their eyes a bit more." Vingegaard, who did not appear hurt, finished two seconds behind overall leader Tadej Pogacar and stayed second, 4:15 off the pace.
CBC
2 days ago
- General
- CBC
University of the Fraser Valley to digitize 3 million photos documenting South Asian history
The University of the Fraser Valley is taking on a unique challenge: digitizing the life's work of a local photographer, which includes a staggering 3 million pictures capturing important historical events in the South Asian community. Sohrab Sandhu reports.
Yahoo
2 days ago
- Science
- Yahoo
Glow-in-the-dark animal captured on camera for first time
It's a bird! It's a plane! Wait, no, it's a glow-in-the-dark animal? A photographer from Down Under has become the first person to capture a photo of a glowing marsupial in the wild. Aussie photographer Ben Alldridge submitted a photo as part of the 2025 Beaker Street Science Photography Prize. The photo was of a wild Eastern quoll, which is carnivorous marsupial that's native to Tasmania and exhibits biofluorescence. Using invisible ultraviolet light, Alldridge captured the mammal glowing in the dark, and his photo is considered the first photographic evidence of a quoll exhibiting biofluorescence in its natural habitat, reported. 'Where their fur is normally fawn or black, under certain wavelengths of light, they exhibit a process referred to as biofluorescence — like nature's version of a white shirt glowing at a disco,' Alldridge said, per the Daily Mail. Smithsonian Magazine reported that several mammals across the globe, many of them nocturnal, are known to exhibit this phenomenon, including polar bears, moles, zebras, wombats, armadillo and more. Non-mammals such as corals, insects, spiders, fish, amphibians, reptiles and birds also exhibit the phenomenon, although the exact biological purpose of biofluorescence is still unknown. Alldridge said he hopes his photos and studies into biofluorescence will help solve the mystery surrounding it. Recommended video 'I'd say it's likely a messaging or identifying system similar to our fingerprints, but that is wild speculation at best,' he said, per the Daily Mail. 'For now, we will just say they like to party.' Alldridge's photography will be considered as part of the ongoing research. 'The amount of light we waste illuminating space — both physical and now literal — is ridiculous, and in many cases is counterproductive to why the lights are installed to begin with,' Alldridge said. Alldridge's photo is one of 12 finalist images to be exhibited at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery from Aug. 6-31, as part of the Beaker Street Festival. Experts puzzled as chimps reportedly getting extra cheeky with grass fad Pets can stave off dementia for people over 50 living alone: Study
