Scammers mail official-looking letters and checks that allegedly certify the recipients as one of two international winners of the Million Dollar Lottery 2005 Draw.
State police say they've gotten some calls from people who have received calls with a recorded message about sex offenders living in the area of the person called.
Sheriff's authorities are urging eBay users to be aware of a scam that requests personal information to keep their account with the online auction site from being terminated.
A telemarketer says you've been picked to enroll in a club. For a shipping and handling fee of $3.95, you will receive dozens of free DVDs and a $200 gift certificate to a department store. The catch is that you have to supply your bank account number to the company, which could automatically withdraw the money for you.
A grief-stricken family devastated by the Asian tsunami, the downward slide of a Russian oil tycoon and a legless Iraqi boy are the latest hard luck e-mails flooding inboxes.
Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan issued an alert to warn people to hang up the telephone if they get an unexpected collect call from a person in prison or in jail.
A South African has been charged with tampering with traffic lights at a busy Johannesburg junction, allegedly to get tip-off fees from breakdown companies.
About 41 people fell victim to a $255,000 Internet scam, in which federal prosecutors say that Michael R. Deppe, a 20-year-old from Hudson, conned people into paying for Super Bowl tickets he never planned to deliver.
A year ago a Hood County woman received two phone calls, a short time apart, from self-proclaimed psychics saying that the woman and her husband were about to have a windfall of money.
The age-old Ponzi scheme led this year's Top 10 list of investor scams, published each year by the North American Securities Administrators Association, which represents state regulators.
Crooks have been finding ways to use the Internet, the most recent and common scam apparently offering items for sale on Internet auctions or otherwise and then failing to deliver after payment.
Former Microsoft Corp. employee Richard Gregg has been sentenced to two years in prison yesterday for mail fraud after unlawfully selling more than $13 million worth of his former employer's software.
A woman was sentenced to more than 5 years in prison for scamming dozens of Internet consumers by selling plasma TVs, digital cameras and laptop computers she didn't own or possess.
When the voice of a state trooper comes over the phone line in the night saying a loved one has been hurt, the last thing on anyone's mind is a phone bill — and authorities say con artists know it.
Police are warning residents of a scam in which a telephone caller tried to obtain financial information by saying he was from the "U.S. Compliance Office."
Internet phone services have drawn millions of users looking for rock-bottom rates. Now they're also attracting identity thieves looking to turn stolen credit cards into cash.
The RCMP is warning the public to be aware of a fundraising scam preying on the heartstrings of Canadians mourning the four Mounties who were slain in Alberta.
A British woman who recruited young British Asian women in shopping centres for bogus marriages with Indian men that helped the latter to skip immigration procedures has been found guilty at Isleworth Crown Court.
The postal money order scam often known as the "Nigerian scam" is back in Bennington, with one woman just missing being taken for nearly $7,000 dollars.
The Federal Trade Commission is being asked to investigate Web sites that claim to offer legal music downloads for a low price but actually sell popular software that is available free elsewhere on the Internet and is commonly used to steal songs.
Police are warning of a scam in which potential victims get e-mail from someone pretending to be a bank official asking them to verify their bank account and Social Security numbers.
A Canadian man in love with an imaginary Russian woman has helped Yekaterinburg police arrest a couple behind an Internet scam that cheated love-struck foreigners out of thousands of dollars.
When an elderly Cecil Township man saw a letter with a return address in Spain claiming he had won an international lottery, he became suspicious and notified police.
Internet scams are becoming more and more common. But one little-known scam that's been around for years is hitting a little too close to home. It all starts when you try to sell something online.
Investigators say a man was scammed after responding to an e-mail that he received from someone in Nigeria. In the e-mail, investigators say the sender said that he had $10,000 "locked" in an account in Nigeria and he needed help getting it.
