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Fraud Suspects Used Child’s Cancer Campaign for Fundraising

Three people have been accused of allegedly accepting money from donors after claiming they were family members of a little girl with cancer, and it was discovered that they allegedly have no relation to the child or the fundraising efforts for her recovery. The family of a 6-year-old girl named…

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Dealerships Lost Thousands on Leased Cars Due to Hacked Odometers

A man has been charged with many theft-related felonies after the authorities became suspicious of his business activities and allege that he offered to turn back the mileage on the odometers of cars for customers leasing them from dealerships. For the past year and a half, a man has allegedly…

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Suspected Scammers Scored Hundreds of Free Flights

Three people are being accused of creating fake airline employee identification cards in order to fly without having to buy tickets. In early May of 2017, a man allegedly tried to take a flight out of Los Angeles International Airport on Spirit Airlines and when he was asked for identification…

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Roofing Company Collected Payments for Jobs Never Done

The owner of a North Carolina roofing company is under suspicion of fraud after he allegedly accepted payment from nine different homes for roofing work that he never fulfilled. 34-year-old Ricardo Romero is the owner of Above and Beyond Roofing in Raleigh, NC. Over the past year his company has…

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Owner of Auto Broker Lot Arrested for Tax Evasion and Theft

36-year-old James Hensley was the owner and president of Knoxville Auto Brokers in Knoxville, Tennessee, from 2012 until the day he shut his business down last April. When Hensley closed his doors for good he allegedly left some of the clients of his establishment with financial problems because he accepted…

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Long Beach Clerk Suspected of Stealing Identities of VA Patients

A clerk employed at the Long Beach VA was allegedly found in possession of the identities and information belonging to over 1,000 patients of the facility leading to the arrest of the suspect. On Thursday, on the property of the Tibor Rubin VA Medical Center, an employee of the facility…

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Suspects Arrested for Fraudulent Brokering of Urine from Addicts in Recovery

Two Delray Beach men have been suspected of taking part in a scam when they were found participating in profiting from illegal brokering practices involving the urine of patients with substance abuse problems who are in treatment and recovery programs. It is reported that the urine collected from substance abuse…

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Woman Accused of Fraud for Accepting Unemployment While Working

A woman from Colorado is facing several felony charges for allegations that she fraudulently accepted unemployment benefits while earning unreported money from jobs at the same time. 36-year-old Meadoe R. Croker began a claim for unemployment benefits beginning in January 2015 and started receiving checks shortly thereafter. She additionally renewed…

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Orange County Insurance Agent Suspected of $1.6 Million Scam on Seniors

An ex-insurance agent from San Clemente has been accused of using fraudulent practices to profit off of investments he made for at least six elderly clients in Southern California. 55-year-old Mark Malatesta, a man employed as a licensed insurance agent, was taken into custody on Monday after the California Department…

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Man Accused of Multi-Million Dollar Sales Scheme Fraud Facing 89 Charges

A Dana Point resident who allegedly made millions of dollars in purchases through fraudulent means at several businesses in San Bernardino, Riverside and Orange counties is facing 89 charges for the schemes. Over a nine-month period last year, businesses in three Southern California counties were the victims of a forced-sale…

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