State Police in Massena are investigating recent attempted scams in the St Lawrence County area. The scam involves an automated message that is left on the potential victim’s phone pretending to be from a financial institution. The automated messages are requesting personal...

GULFPORT — A man convicted of home-repair fraud in state court may go on trial in federal court this fall on 11 counts of wire fraud. Read more:  Home-repair fraud trial delayed

A utility scam–sweeping an upstate county, leaving multiple victims fearing for their safety and their possession. See original here:  Utility Scam Hitting Homeowners In Laurens Co.

MIDLAND The first man has pleaded guilty in a supposed fraud scheme involving the Penwell Knights Raceway. Fred Welch Foster admitted to conspiracy to commit mail fraud Thursday in federal court. He and three others still face six counts of mail… See original here: Raceway...

Despite a huge push for insurers to detect health care fraud, a Long Island lawsuit points to ways language written into insurer contracts can create huge obstacles to finding – and collecting on – such fraud. The suit stems from when Guardian Life Insurance hired Dr....

A common “secret shopper” check scam is making its way around Richland, police said.The Read the original here: Check scam in Richland targets ’secret shoppers’

Several Nevada County residents have received a scam e-mail purporting to be from former Nevada City mayor Steve Cottrell, claiming he is in London and asking for money. See more here:  Scam e-mail uses Steve Cottrell’s name

A BAHRAINI lawyer and his client on trial accused of a BD20,000 fraud will learn their fate later this month. He was arrested along with a Bahraini woman for allegedly swindling two Gulf Arabs out of the money. However, both deny the charges and have accused each other of pocketing...