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The people stealing houses in Montgomery County, Va., have not been backing trucks up to the foundation and hauling them away. They just take over the deed without the homeowner’s knowledge. The Montgomery Count...
Five major banks Malysia are being scrutinized by the Malaysian Anti Corruption Commission's radar for being used by international scammers to dupe victims, who transacted up to 1 million ringgita – that’s a...
The obnoxious 3-minute robocall
She should have seen it coming. A psychic was sentenced for coaching a wife on bilking cash and stealing $1 million from an elderly husband. The woman must spend nine and a half years in prison and 15 years on probati...
Jenny Craig helps people lose weight, but it didn’t need any help losing customer data. It just set file cabinets on the street in East Memphis, Tenn. Names, phone numbers, addresses, dates of birth, even photos...
The one where I'm approached by a romance scammer
The word cop has its origins as shorthand for “Constable On Patrol.” No doubt a former London cop withes he was on patrol instead of being scammed, according to the London Free Press. The former officer wa...
It was a game of oopsie in Texas when the state mistakenly sent out thousands of driver’s licenses to an organized crime group. That group used the licenses to clean out the bank accounts of thousands of people na...
Talk about doing time. A couple in Thailand was sentenced to 12,640 years – each – for running a ponzi scheme. They were promising 93 percent return on investments, which we all know is bat---- crazy. Still,...
The violin scam came back to New Jersey recently. It’s a scam where someone plays beautiful music through a loud speaker in a large parking lot – like Target – which is where I spotted one, but more on...