She Moved Into His Home, Then Drained $407K Through a Fake Pfizer Investment
A 72-year-old woman was convicted in Montgomery County, Maryland, after prosecutors said she met a Silver Spring man on a dating website, moved into his … Read More
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Minnesota Gets $638K After States Say Cash App Let Fraud Spread
Minnesota will receive about $638,000 from a multistate Cash App settlement after attorneys general said the payment app’s parent company misled users about safety and … Read More
Fake Tech Support Calls Cost One Chicago Victim $746K in Retirement Savings
A man who ran a tech-support fraud scheme from India was sentenced to more than six years in federal prison after prosecutors said senior citizens … Read More
A Former Romance Scam Victim and DOD Employee Became a Money Mule, Prosecutors Say He Laundered Millions
A former Department of Defense employee from Pennsylvania pleaded guilty to laundering millions of dollars for overseas scammers who had first targeted him in a … Read More
She Sold Fake COVID Vaccine Cards, New York Just Added a $544K Penalty
A former Long Island nurse practitioner who sold fake COVID-19 vaccination cards has received a $544,000 state penalty, adding another financial consequence to a case … Read More
A Fake Microsoft Alert Cost Her $300K, Then Medicare Raised Her Premiums
A retired Washington social worker lost more than $300,000 in a gold coin courier scam, then faced a second financial shock when the stolen money … Read More
Campaign Cash, State Grants, and “Gifts”: Illinois Lawmaker and County Clerk Indicted
Illinois State Rep. Carol Ammons and her husband, Champaign County Clerk Aaron Ammons, have been indicted on federal charges tied to an alleged campaign-fund, state-grant, … Read More
FBI Says Minnesota Food Vendor Took $5M Meant to Feed Children
A Minnesota man charged in the Feeding Our Future fraud case has been added to the FBI’s Most Wanted Fraudsters list. Fahad Mohamed Nur was … Read More
Detectives Watched the Cash Handoff, Then Arrested Alleged Elder Scam Courier
A man was arrested in Sonoma County after detectives said they caught him acting as a courier in a financial scam targeting an elderly woman. … Read More