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Federal authorities arrested 14 men accused of scamming at least $20 million from gamblers across the country by falsely claiming to have inside information on sports games.
With the explosion of credit cards, debit cards, and account transfers, it is easier than ever to access balances and pay bills. It's also made it easier for people to take your money.
The discovery of bags of undelivered mail in a trash bin has led to the arrests of three people accused of fitting ingenious devices in street-corner postal collection boxes to snare victims' mail.
The Marshall Police Department is warning area residents of a new variation of an old scam. The telephone scam is essentially a version of the Nigerian e-mail scam: the caller identifies himself as a representative of an overseas interest that needs the help of an American to move a large sum of money to a U.S. account.
A 23-year-old Sonoma man was arrested on the suspicion that he bilked customers of the popular Internet auction web site eBay out of what may amount to more than $300,000.
A federal grand jury has returned a 20-count indictment against a Ukranian man accused of selling millions of dollars in pirated software over the Internet.
A Cook County circuit judge has postponed the arraignment of a 75-year-old Algonquin woman accused of writing bad checks to car dealerships across the Chicago area.
Doctors and other wealthy self-employed businessmen saw their income taxes slashed and wrote off such expenses as their kids' college tuition, household utilities and vacations to Hawaii — all thanks to a popular series of tax shelters sold by a Chicago firm.
At two Foley's stores in Houston and three in Dallas law enforcement agencies are investigating cases where a white couple in their late 70s has been pulling off what you might call the old switch-er-roo.
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