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Milos Komnenovic

Rare Super Mario Games

A Wisconsin Shop Nearly Sold These Old Mario Games For $15 Each. Then Collectors Saw What Was Inside The Box

A box of old Nintendo cartridges in Wisconsin looked, at first, like the kind of retro gaming find that might bring in only a few … Read More

Phone Scam

Scammers Said Relatives Needed Ankle Monitors. Two Nebraska Families Lost $2,162

Two Nebraska victims sent money to scammers who claimed their relatives needed ankle monitors either to remain out of jail or secure their release. The … Read More

Gold bars

An 85-Year-Old Was Told His Money Was at Risk, Then Scammers Asked for $200,000 in Gold

An 85-year-old Washington, D.C., man was preparing to hand over more than $200,000 in gold after people posing as federal agents convinced him that money … Read More

Brandon Coleman

NOPD Officer Faces 350 Charges After Cameras Showed Him Home During Overtime Hours

A New Orleans police officer repeatedly filmed at home during hours his records showed him working is now facing 350 criminal charges in an alleged … Read More

Money Scam

He Took $417,451 From COVID Contracts, Grants and Unemployment, Then Pleaded Guilty

A Baltimore County man admitted stealing $417,451 through a series of schemes targeting Maryland contracts and public-benefit programs, then attempting to obtain another $92,672. Walter … Read More

Cary Lee Kleiner

Hospital Call About ‘Her Husband’ Helped Unravel $100,000 Identity Theft, Warrant Says

A Connecticut man’s wife received a disturbing call from a New York hospital in January 2023. A doctor told her that her husband was in … Read More

Terry Heitman

CPA Gets 18 Months in Prison After Taking $415,481 From Family Trust He Controlled

A Missouri accountant entrusted with managing a family’s money instead took more than $415,000 from the trust and used fraud proceeds to help purchase his … Read More

E-mail spam phishing scammer concept

City Sent $913,839 to Fake Vendor Before Anyone Realized It Was a Scam

A California city sent nearly $1 million to a fraudulent bank account after scammers impersonated one of its known vendors, turning what appeared to be … Read More

Christopher Upshaw, Johnathan Swift, Dontavis Williams and Donterious Sparks

Four Men Go to Prison After COVID Tax Scheme Reaches $17.5 Million

Four Columbus, Georgia, men are heading to federal prison after pleading guilty to mail fraud in a pandemic-era tax scheme that grew far beyond their … Read More

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Chance Wright

A Fire Chief Inflated a Man’s Payroll Hours to Divert City Money, Then He Got Probation

A $180K Wedding Trip Fell Apart. Customers Say the Travel Business Reappeared Under a New Name

A $180K Wedding Trip Fell Apart. Customers Say the Travel Business Reappeared Under a New Name

Nicolas Oleko

A Fake Email Redirected $113,050 Into His Business Account, Then Nearly All the Money Was Gone in Hours

Maribeth Ellen Jones

She Allegedly Faked Cancer and Collected $40,000 From 238 People, Then Deputies Arrested Her

Ivan Crummie, Olivia Rowls, Martin Monroe, Dequan Denson, Kimberly Topham

Investigators Say a State Employee Photographed Government Checks, Then the Images Became $905,614 in Fakes

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