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A Long Island man’s yearslong scheme to collect disability insurance benefits all the while he trained for bodybuilding competitions and owned and operated a limousine business was foiled by a series of social media posts, state officials said. Instagram posts chronicling Anthony Ragusa’s physical transformation as a bodybuilder helped the state attorney general’s office catch the fraudster for illegally...

For Michael Alan Winicour, it’s tough to relive the details of what happened to him last summer. It’s not pleasant for him to admit he fell victim to a scam, in which he lost thousands of dollars.

Online scams are everywhere, but how can you spot them before you become a victim? One company shares their new platform that aims to help people catch a scam before they fall for one.

The indictment said participants in the scheme recruited more than 400 people to either claim they had fallen where no accident occurred or to deliberately fall at NYC locations where they could claim there were cracks in concrete sidewalks, potholes or unsecured cellar doors.

The Lake County Sheriff’s Office issued a warning Thursday of a scam involving an offender posing as police officer calling residents. The sheriff’s office is investigating a series of these offenses in which an unknown caller poses as a police officer calling residents saying there’s an active warrant for their arrest. According to police, the offender identifies himself as...

Scammers are cashing in on fake CDC vaccination identification cards as the demand for proof of vaccination is expected to build. The blank cards are being sold on sites like Craigslist, eBay, and OfferUp, and NBC 5 has found multiple postings in the Chicago area. Chad Anderson, a senior security researcher for Domaintools, a group tracking cyber threats around the…

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.

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.

Authorities are warning Cook County residents that someone is calling people claiming to be a member of the sheriff’s department and asking for money.

After a north suburban Chicago couple was recently scammed out of thousands of dollars, the FBI has warned the public to keep them from falling for the fake email.

Whether it’s repairing roof damage from a storm or a remodeling job, most of us will have to deal with a home contractor. Here are some quick and easy tips to protect yourself from being scammed or overpaying for shoddy work.