Category: Scams
Consumer warning: Visually inspect gift cards at the store before purchasing
Scammers nationwide are replacing new cards in the stores with cards stolen from other locations – that have already been zeroed out.
Owners of Colorado funeral home each plead guilty to 191 counts of corpse abuse
Carie and Jon Hallford will both be serving lengthy prison sentences
Michele Fiore: Gun-totin’ Las Vegas politician convicted of defrauding charitable donors
Councilwoman Michele Fiore solicited and collected funds to go toward honoring police killed in the line of duty, but spent all the donations on herself, her plastic surgery, her bills and her daughter’s wedding
U.S. offers $10 million reward for info on Iranians indicted for hacking into Trump’s presidential campaign
Iranian hackers sent emails to individuals associated with Biden’s presidential campaign that contained an excerpt taken from stolen, non-public material from Trump’s campaign in an effort to affect the 2024 presidential election
Bad actors targeting citizens with latest Internet ‘sextortion’ scam
Scammers send you a picture of your house and say they have evidence of your online porn viewing habits – and threaten to release that info unless you pay up
Bad actor caught red-handed after scamming elderly man out of $150,000 in gold bars
Patel, 21, arrested and caught with even more gold that he had just scammed from another victim
Criminal cases involving elder abuse are up and growing at alarming rates and intensity
American seniors were scammed out of $1.6 billion in the last 5 months, up nearly $300 million from the same time period last year
Port St. Lucie teen, 15, with help from cohorts, kidnaps and violently robs victim she met on-line
The teen female mastermind enlisted the aid of 2 masked and armed henchmen
Did you receive a text message saying you owe money to E-ZPass?
If so, it’s a scam. Do not send them any money
U.S. states with the lowest and highest rates of elderly fraud
New data reveals the numbers of victims in each state – and the total amount of monies scammed from the victims
