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A San Francisco man who claimed to be the son of the president of the Congo has been arrested and charged with fraud for allegedly bilking a Marin County real estate agent and his girlfriend of $1.6 million.
Authorities were looking for the owner of a San Jose moving company, his wife and three others after prosecutors on Monday said hundreds of customers were overcharged and told their furniture and other belongings would be held in storage unless they paid the higher fees.
Once the students picked up their financial aid checks, they managed to either stop enrollment or withdrew from class without the college realizing it, and pocketed nearly $3,000 each.
Two men convicted of a complicated scam involving San Francisco's One Rincon Hill luxury residential tower were sentenced on Tuesday long terms in state prison.
Federal officials on Monday charged the former head of the nation's largest pension fund and one of his business associates with falsifying documents and other charges in a long-running influence peddling and bribery investigation.
An woman was arrested on multiple charges after a shopper at Best Buy in San Carlos contacted San Mateo County sheriff's deputies because she was acting suspicious.
Vacaville police have arrested two Bay Area women who were suspected of 30 identity thefts in California and Nevada, a police sergeant said.
A former Silicon Valley hedge fund manager has been sentenced to 12 years in federal prison for defrauding investors out of millions of dollars.
A woman who was filmed running in high heels and engaging in oral sex in a public park while claiming to be too injured to work was sentenced Thursday to nine months in San Mateo County Jail for workers' compensation fraud.
The manager of an assisted-living facility in Mill Valley who was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of fraud, identity theft and financial elder abuse of a resident is scheduled to be arraigned in Marin County Superior Court on Christmas Eve.
A Novato man is facing federal charges in an alleged Internet fraud scheme that bilked people out of tens of thousands of dollars.
A judge has sentenced a former Democratic campaign treasurer to eight years in federal prison for defrauding high-profile clients, including U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, of at least $7 million.
Hewlett-Packard Co. said on Tuesday that it's the victim of a multi-billion dollar fraud at the hands of a British company it bought last year that lied about its finances.
Pleasanton police arrested a former Pinole police commander Friday and were seeking his wife on suspicion of defrauding an elderly man.
A San Jose police officer was arrested Thursday on suspicion of grand theft following an investigation into alleged timesheet fraud, police said.
Yelp Inc. said Thursday that some businesses go to "extreme lengths" to boost positive reviews. This includes paying people to write them.
San Francisco District Attorney George Gascon announced Monday the creation of a hotline that will allow city residents to report election fraud.
The U.S. Department of Justice is warning seniors to watch out for investment fraud schemes. According to the agency, it's a type of crime that is surging as a result of the recession.
Authorities have arrested a man who went on the lam last month while out on bail as a verdict against him was pending in a case related to a complicated scam at San Francisco's One Rincon Hill residential tower, prosecutors said.
A Contra Costa County man is facing charges that he bilked more than 1,000 homeowners in a multi-state, multi-million dollar mortgage scam.
The "ghost scam" continues to victimize seniors, particularly Asian women, in the Bay Area. It's a crime so serious that the San Francisco District Attorney is personally getting the word out to potential victims.
Two women were duped out of thousands of dollars in separate incidents in San Francisco over the holiday weekend, the latest in a series of fraud cases that police said Tuesday could be part of an organized effort targeting older Asian women.
Oceana, a Monterey-based environmental advocacy group, is conducting DNA testing on dozens of fish purchased undercover here in the Bay Area to determine if they were labeled accurately at the time of sale.
Jame Troy Wilson has been charged with operating a scheme where he took over foreclosed properties, made false claims of ownership and then took thousands of dollars from unsuspecting renters.
In this age of electronic this and digital that, you'd think notaries would be on the verge of being written off.
