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A former professor, convicted of using colleagues' names to obtain credit cards and spending freely on them while at a California university in the 1990s, has surfaced at Princeton University and has again been charged with credit card fraud.
Flowers and mushrooms pop up this time of year, but they are not the only things that appear in the spring, according to local law enforcement authorities. Spring is also prime time for scam artists, who unexpectedly appear at the door to practice their skill in "conning" the public.
Officials at the Better Business Bureau in Louisville says they have seen lottery scams before, but never one as convincing as the latest scam to hit town. Victims think they've hit it big when they're sent a check that's not worth the paper it's printed on.
Two Indiana Pacers players and Pacers officials were questioned by the Indianapolis Police Department for nearly three hours after learning the players may have been victimized by an ongoing fraud and theft scheme.