Latest Fraud Headlines
All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Report: Nevada Ranks Among Worst States for Internet Crime
Apr 7 2008 // Nevada ranked among the worst states for Internet scams last year, according to a government study. The state ranked second in the nation per capita for perpetrators and fifth per capita for victims, the report by the FBI...
Fraud Fighting Texas Prosecutor Honored for Successes
Apr 7 2008 // Kyson Johnson, a special assistant in the specialized crime division of the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office, has been named Prosecutor of the Year by A Texas Advisory Council on Arson (ATAC). Johnson was...
FBI: Dollar Loss from Internet Crime Reaches All-Time High
Apr 4 2008 // Internet crimes in 2007 cost nearly $240 million, a $40 million increase from 2006, the Federal Bureau of Investigation reported. According to the FBI’s 2007 Internet Crime Report, the Internet Crime Complaint Center...
Nearly Dozen Arrested for $2 Million California Insurance Fraud Scam
Apr 4 2008 // California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner announced the arrests of nearly one dozen alleged Bay Area fraud perpetrators. Eleven subjects were arrested over the past week on numerous felony counts including insurance...
Alabama Insurance Executive Indicted in Criminal Fraud Case
Apr 4 2008 // A 26-count indictment was returned against a Montgomery, Ala. insurance executive. Louis Franklin, acting U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama, said a federal grand jury charged John W. Goff with mail fraud,...
New Texas Crash Reports Sans Victims’ Numbers Aim to Curb Scams
Apr 4 2008 // Police officers in Texas will have one less blank to fill out while investigating traffic accidents this year, the Texas Committee on Insurance Fraud reported. The form will no longer contain phone numbers for crash...
Texas Feb. Enforcements: Nearly $357K in Fines, Restitution
Apr 3 2008 // Enforcement actions taken by Texas Insurance Commissioner Mike Geeslin that became final during February include four license revocations, three license denials, and fines and restitution totaling $356,925, the Texas...
Update: Fire at Tennessee Sports Uniform Factory Set to Cover Thefts
Apr 2 2008 // Fire investigators have ruled that a blaze that burned a Knoxville, Tenn. sports uniform factory was intentionally set. It took firefighters nearly five hours on March 16 to put out the fire that heavily damaged Sports...
Business Owner Sentenced for Workers’ Comp Fraud in Texas
Apr 2 2008 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company reported that an Arp, Texas, business owner pled guilty in a workers’ compensation fraud-related case. A Travis County district court ordered Jerry Don Calicutt, owner of ZIPCO Services...
Ohio Police: TVs, Motorcycles Changed Hands in Theft-to-order Ring
Apr 2 2008 // The pitch to co-workers or bar patrons, police say, went like this: “Hey, anybody interested in buying a trailer?” Somebody was. Big-screen TVs, riding mowers, motorcycles, frozen food and more exchanged hands...
California Trio Arrested for International Auto Insurance Fraud
Mar 31 2008 // Three individuals have been arrested in California for allegedly being involved in a five-person conspiracy that resulted in a vehicle owned by one of the conspirators driven to Mexico where it was “chopped”...
U.S. Risk, The Colony Group Offer Criminal Justice Coverage
Mar 31 2008 // U.S. Risk, Inc., a subsidiary of U.S. Risk Insurance Group, Inc., has added The Colony Group as a new market for its Criminal Justice Service Operations Program. The Colony Group, rated “A” by A.M. Best and a...
Texas AG Settles With Pharmacy Company Over Identity Theft Charges
Mar 27 2008 // Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott announced an agreement with CVS Pharmacy Inc. that resolves the state’s April 2007 enforcement action against the nation’s largest retail pharmacy. CVS was charged with...
SEC Official Says More Subprime Fraud Could Surface
Mar 27 2008 // The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s top enforcement official said Wednesday that it’s still too early to tell whether the current market turmoil involves widespread securities violations or simply bad...
Kentucky Woman Receives Prison Term for Insurance Fraud
Mar 26 2008 // Federal officials sentenced a Prospect, Ky. woman to 41 months imprisonment for one count of mail fraud, U.S. Attorney David L. Huber of the Western District of Kentucky announced. Chief Judge John G. Heyburn II, also...
1 Arrested in North Carolina Insurance Fraud Scheme, 1 Awaits Indictment
Mar 26 2008 // North Carolina officials arrested two suspects on an alleged insurance fraud scheme, according to Insurance Commissioner Jim Long. John Wesley Baum, 30, is behind an insurance fraud scheme in which he helped his alleged...
Dallas County Assistant DA Honored for Fighting Fraud, Arson
Mar 26 2008 // Kyson Johnson, a special assistant in the specialized crime division of the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office, has been named Prosecutor of the Year by A Texas Advisory Council on Arson (ATAC). Johnson was...
West Virginia Man Pleads Guilty to Workers Compensation Fraud
Mar 25 2008 // A Wyoming County, W. Va. man pleaded Monday guilty to one misdemeanor count of wrongfully seeking workers compensation benefits in an amount less than $1000, according to West Virginia Insurance Commissioner, Jane L....
Mass. Construction Worker Charged with Workers’ Compensation Fraud
Mar 25 2008 // A Brockton, Mass. man was arraigned on charges he collected over $9,000 in workers’ compensation benefits while he worked at two different jobs, according to the attorney general’s office. Officials said John...
Credit Card Data Stolen from U.S. Supermarket Chain
Mar 18 2008 // A computer hacker stole thousands of credit card numbers after breaching security at two U.S. grocery store chains owned by Belgium-based Delhaize Group SA , the companies said Monday. Nearly 2,000 cases of fraud have been...
