Most types of financial fraud are relatively straightforward: the fraudster uses creative accounting, inflated numbers, or out-and-out lies to trick their victim into handing over money or valuables ...

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Here is what is known so far as Minnesota and the administration of Democratic Gov. Tim Walz continue to grapple with a burgeoning fraud scandal that has metastasized into a series of different, ...

SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – A new scam is born every day, but cybersecurity experts are fighting back by arming bankers and those at risk with information about a fraud run by multinational ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Brown County Sheriff's Office has investigated over $4.6 million lost to cryptocurrency scams since the beginning of 2024, ...

But the underlying scheme at the center of federal prosecutors' case is actually quite simple: Collins tipped his son off to bad news coming from a biotechnology company, allowing his son and seven ...