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A federal judge ordered a Canadian man to pay nearly $4.3 million in restitution for his part in a credit card processing account scam that targeted an Alabama bank.
Twelve citizens of the former Soviet republics have been arrested in Britain on suspicion of illegally transferring hundreds of thousands of pounds from British bank accounts to criminal groups in Russia via the Internet.
A father and son accused of tricking up to 2,000 people into donating cars to a supposed charity, then selling the vehicles and pocketing the proceeds, have been ordered to stand trial
Using the ATM is something many of us do on a regular basis, but you might want to think twice before you swipe your card the next time you hit a cash machine.
A 75-year-old woman who admitted using her apparent frailty to scam a McHenry County car dealership has pleaded innocent to charges that she sweet-talked an Elgin dealer into letting her drive off with two new cars.