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A couple got shocked messages from friends asking if they were moving. Nope, a scammer had put their...
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 5 hours agoReal estate scams are an especially popular internet crime. According to the FBI, real estate wire ...
US seniors lost a reported $1.2B to investment fraud in 2023 - InvestmentNews
InvestmentNews· 2 days agoAccording to the FBI’s Elder Fraud Report for 2023, which compiles data from its Internet Crime...
Annuity salesman sentenced to 19 years in what prosecutors call epic 17-year fraud scheme
The Des Moines Register via Yahoo Finance· 4 days agoMore Watchdog: Des Moines swindler who used dating sites to prey on single women gets up to 15 years...
St. Louis man pleads guilty to fraud, tax offenses
KTVI via Yahoo News· 4 days agoHARTFORD, Conn. – A St. Louis man appeared in a federal court in Hartford, Connecticut, on Tuesday to plead guilty to his role in two different fraud...
Minnesota jury convicts 5 in first trial to stem from huge pandemic fraud scheme
Semafor via Yahoo News· 5 days agoTwo defendants were acquitted. The group were the first of 70 people alleged by federal prosecutors...
Local sisters face federal charges for $1M in illegal store returns
KIRO via Yahoo News· 3 days agoHowever, the items were not actually returned in the mail. Instead, the sisters would take the items...
Executives From ADHD Startup Arrested, Charged With Fraud
The Wall Street Journal· 3 days agoHEALTH NEWS The founder and head doctor of telehealth company Done Global were arrested and charged...
Five Feeding Our Future defendants found guilty, two acquitted in sprawling fraud case
Hometownsource.com· 2 days agoA jury found five defendants guilty and two not guilty on Friday, June 7, in the first trial in the nation’s largest pandemic relief fraud case.
Feds investigating last year’s data breach affecting the Cook County hospital system
Chicago Sun-Times· 6 days agoThe subpoena shows Acting U.S. Attorney Morris Pasqual and a prosecutor in the U.S. Justice Department’s Fraud Section asked officials to provide PJ&A’s contract with Cook ...
Faking an honest woman: Why Russia, China and Big Tech all use faux females to get clicks
Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier· 4 hours agoWhen it comes to online scams and foreign disinformation, it pays to be female. Or at least to pretend to be.