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If something sounds too good to be true, it often is, and an Aldi offer for free groceries that’s been making the rounds on Facebook this week is, in fact, a scam.

It started as an innocent email inquiry in August for wedding services to CSP Worldwide from a “Jane” living in the United Kingdom. But no one expected the twists that would follow.

It started as an innocent email inquiry in August for wedding services to CSP Worldwide from a “Jane” living in the United Kingdom. “We’re all going through COVID, and we’re all dealing with life as it is. All of a suddenly I got a request through one of my company contact pages,” said Carey Smolensky, owner of CSP Worldwide in...

Residents across the United States are finding packages of seeds mailed to them from China in what is believed to be part of a scam to skew online shopping algorithms.

A couple helped run an international romance scam that used bogus profiles on dating websites to woo dozens of victims into giving up more than $6 million, federal prosecutors said. Martins Friday Inalegwu and Steincy Mathieu, both of Maple Shade, New Jersey, were charged Tuesday with conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud. Inalegwu, 31, made his initial court appearance…

Authorities are warning the public about a phone scammer impersonating a Cook County sheriff’s officer in recent weeks. The caller identifies himself as “Sgt. Dennis Peterson” or “Lt. Jonathan Moore,” the sheriff’s office said. He says he’s an employee, and calls have come from multiple phone numbers. It’s not known how widespread the calls are or if the caller...

A Morton Grove man was scammed out of $2,000 after a caller posing as tech support claimed he needed gift cards to remove hackers from the man’s phone. The caller told the man he needed payment in two $500 retail store gift cards to remove the hackers from the man’s phone, according to a statement from Morton Grove police. The…

A Morton Grove man believed he was talking to Apple Support when a caller told him hackers were stealing information off his iPhone, police said. Instead, he became the victim of a scam.

Authorities are warning Lake County residents about phone scammers pretending to be local government or law enforcement officials.

A former California business executive has been sentenced to two months in prison for paying $250,000 to get his son into the University of Southern California as a fake volleyball recruit. Jeffrey Bizzack, of Solana Beach, California, was sentenced in Boston’s federal court Wednesday. The 59-year-old pleaded guilty in July to a single count of fraud and conspiracy.

Cook County States Attorney Kimberly Fox announced a partnership with the non-profit California group Coders for America to provide computer software to expunge low level marijuana conviction records.

AT&T said this week that it will soon block spam calls or alert customers of suspected spammers. The blocking will first activate for new lines and will then be applied to all existing accounts, the carrier said on Tuesday. The feature will be on by default but can be turned off by users who don’t want it, per rules set...

A coalition of pastors say the sex offenders housed at a faith-based ministry in Aurora, which took in a convicted murderer once associated with the notorious “Ripper Crew,” should be allowed to stay.

The FCC on Friday warned of a surge in what it calls the “One Ring” or “Wangiri” scam, a series of robocalls from Africa that can ring you up for a huge phone toll bill.

Election Day has arrived in Chicago, with voters making their choice in a 14-way race for mayor that’s destined for a runoff election and aldermanic races in many of the city’s 50 wards.

Illinois lawmakers heard from two former Chicago Public Schools students about alleged sexual abuse at the hands of district employees.

A Kansas City company which lost out on a major software contract with the University of Illinois Hospitals, says the winning company’s bid will end up costing taxpayers up to $100 million in excess costs.

A man was sentenced to seven years in prison for shooting an acquaintance and leading police on a high-speed chase last year in west suburban Aurora.

Four people have pleaded guilty in the 2016 kidnapping of a woman in northwest suburban Elgin.