Fraud and Scam News

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Detectives from Herkimer Police Department seem to have netted a big one last month. They arrested Jerry R Prime and Quincy Thompson, both from Brooklyn, and charged them with several counts of criminal possession of a forged instrument. The arrest, police believe, may have busted a scam covering scores of people in three […]

You better be careful if you are planning to or are presently visiting US. A new scam is reportedly doing the rounds of the tourist circuit that is conning travelers into revealing their confidential information and then stealing their money using this knowledge.
If you are currently on vacation in the US or are planning to […]

A fake credit card racket was busted in the last week of January this year in Markham near Ontario. Using specialized equipment, the fraudsters were converting ordinary plastic cards to credit cards, health cards, social insurance cards and whatever else you can imagine.
In the second week of this month, the State Attorney General of Oklahoma […]