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A Louisville woman was scammed out of $800 after giving her personal information over the phone. She thought the caller was an employee from her bank, but it wasn't.
Imagine opening your checking account to find someone cashed a check you never wrote. It's a nationwide scam — and now some Western Washington residents are finding out that they are victims, too.
The government is asking a federal court to shut down what it charged is a wide-ranging system of tax fraud that has misled about 100,000 taxpayers into taking improper deductions and credits, and has cost the U.S. Treasury$324 million in tax revenue.
Salesman are going door to door of rural residences offering to blacktop driveways. Either the perpetrators ask for the money in advance and don't do the work or they do shoddy work and the property owner does not discover it until it's too late.
State police say a Scottdale couple cheated coupon clippers across the country by selling tens of thousands of dollars' worth of counterfeit grocery coupons over the Internet.
Police say a scam artist is preying on elderly victims on Chicago's South Side. A woman allegedly poses as a government worker and then uses that fake identity to steal people's money.
Credit card skimming — the lifting of information from a cards' magnetic strip — will be outlawed as early as next month, with Justice Minister Chris Ellison planning to introduce new legislation ahead of the federal budget.
Doctors, lawyers, a dentist and a member of the Bonanno crime family were among36 individuals indicted in a medical insurance scam believed to have plundered $27 million over three years.
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