Notary Business In Silicon Valley Strong Despite Sour Economy
In this age of electronic this and digital that, you'd think notaries would be on the verge of being written off.
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In this age of electronic this and digital that, you'd think notaries would be on the verge of being written off.
San Francisco police were warning the public about a scam in which victims are mailed fraudulent checks by a non-existent lottery organization.
Four former recruiters at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco are accusing school officials of using an illegal compensation plan to cheat the federal government out of millions of dollars in financial aid.
A longtime friend of Coco Crisp was convicted Thursday of 14 counts of fraud and identity theft for running up about $30,000 on the Oakland Athletics outfielder's credit card without his permission.
The San Francisco Police Department has produced a video in Cantonese that warns elderly members of the Chinese American community about a scam that has netted thieves more than a million dollars in cash and jewelry over the past few months.
California has a new law to stop what Gov. Jerry Brown calls abusive home lending tactics.
California's State Assembly and Senate both passed a package of protections for homeowners designed to prevent further foreclosure abuse. The legislation now goes to Gov. Brown.
A judge charged with stealing at least $1.6 million from an elderly neighbor remains on the bench.
A man who worked as the chief financial officer for Pearl Jam's management company has been charged with 33 counts of theft.
Police in South San Francisco were searching for a couple who scammed a woman out of money and jewelry with the promise of sharing $100,000 in lottery winnings.
The former CEO of a Fremont technology firm has been sentenced to 21 years in federal prison in a multimillion-dollar stock fraud scheme.
The Sonoma County District Attorney's Office and California Attorney General Kamala Harris filed a 164-count complaint Thursday against a Petaluma man suspected of stealing $20 million from dozens of investors in an alleged securities fraud Ponzi scheme.
A Petaluma man who allegedly stole more than $20 million from dozens of investors in a Ponzi scheme has been arrested, Attorney General Kamala Harris and Sonoma County District Attorney Jill Ravitch announced Tuesday.
Replacing a windshield seems easy enough. But, according to the Bureau of Automotive Repair there's been an uptick on windshield companies operating without a license.
Several women from Hong Kong were arrested at San Francisco International Airport in connection with a scam to rob elderly Asian women of jewelry and cash.
Next time you sell a used car, you may want to want to ask the buyer to sign the title deed (pink slip) in your presence.
The owner of a San Francisco Bay area restaurant chain has been sentenced to more than three years in federal prison for hiring illegal immigrants.
An elderly Castro Valley woman has become the latest victim of a con artist who sells phony gold bars, ostensibly to pay for medical care for a sick relative, authorities said Thursday.
A company that professes to helps patients cover the cost of expensive spinal implants overbilled Santa Clara County taxpayers by tens of thousands of dollars and pocketed the profits, according to prosecutors.
A former United States Postal Service manager pleaded guilty in federal court Friday to committing wire fraud and conspiring to violate federal conflict of interest laws, attorneys said.
San Francisco police are warning the public about scam artists who are targeting elderly Asian women in the city's Sunset District.
It's less than a month before the April 17th tax filing deadline. While taxpayers and accountants are getting busy, so are criminals.
A handful of Bay Area residents are reporting they've been scammed by on-line sellers offering discounted tickets to Disneyland. The suspect ads all appeared on Craigslist in the past month.
Walnut Creek police arrested a caretaker for the elderly on Saturday who they suspect has been defrauding her clients, police said.
A Clayton man's alleged plan to defraud his elderly parents of their home last month was thwarted by Contra Costa County's new fraud notification program.
