Area Police Departments Warn of Fake IRS E-Mail 'Phishing' Scams
An IRS spokesman says if they need to reach you about a tax return, they will do it either by phone or through the mail -- not with an e-mail.
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An IRS spokesman says if they need to reach you about a tax return, they will do it either by phone or through the mail -- not with an e-mail.
If you have received correspondence from the New Jersey attorney general's office saying that you're eligible to take part in a mega financial settlement, don't believe it.
Adriano Sotomayor had been on the lam for more than three months before being nabbed in Las Vegas. He is charged with bilking one elderly nun out of a quarter of a million dollars.
Corruption in the Philadelphia Sheriff's office leads to another guilty plea.
The Burlington county consumer affair office has a mystery on its hands. Volunteers are trying to identify the couples in thousands of wedding photos and videos taken by convicted fraudster Jack Holton.
Prosecutors say Samantha Sinkler forged letters from her doctors, claiming she was being treated for cancer and seizures.
Federal prosecutor Anita Eve says Michael Wilkerson, pastor of the New Life Millennium Life Restoration Fellowship, recruited congregants, and their family and friends in a home loan scheme.
"You're talking about tens of millions of dollars that are being misspent that could be properly applied to people who truly need this program," Auditor General Jack Wagner said. "This is a $257-million program. It serves over 400,000 Pennsylvania families and we need to get it right."
Roosevelt Hairston pleaded guilty to mail fraud, money laundering, and filing a false tax return.
A New Jersey man has been sentenced to five years in prison for paying bribes to get a phony license to help him commit other financial crimes.
Former New York Mets and Philadelphia Phillies outfielder Lenny Dykstra has been indicted by a Los Angeles federal grand jury in a bankruptcy fraud case.
Robert Krikorian, dubbed by prosecutors as the "Bernie Madoff of Montgomery County," has admitted in court that he stole more than $870,000 from more than three dozens clients.
Delaware State Police are searching for a suspect who has been using fraudulent credit cards to buy cigarettes.
If you're trying to decide whether to use the credit card or the debit card this holiday season, here are some tips.
