Fraud

Can you avoid being robbed by skimmer scammers by using tap to pay?

If you worked while getting jobless benefits, New York State is putting you on notice - pay the benefits back or answer to law enforcement, period.

A corner store in South Buffalo has been charged in connection to EBT card fraud.

To shred or not to shred, it's no longer its a question of if you should do it, but what should you be shredding. There is one easy rule to remember.

A new tool was introduced on Thursday to verify identification to fight identity theft-based unemployment fraud. The Department of Labor (DOL) says using source will also speed-up claims processing to give out benefits more efficiently.

...as Racial Profiling in the U.S. continues

Richard L. Frey, the former mayor of Dunkirk, has pleaded guilty to fraud. According to WGRZ Frey admitted to stealing financial contributions to his campaign for personal use.   He's charged with defrauding business owners into contributing to his campaign , but spent that money for himself. Inv...

There are a lot of dumb criminals out there, but this one is the BEST stories I've heard yet!

On Friday afternoon, I got a very disturbing phone call from my bank. They were calling to ask me if I had used my card that morning to buy stuff at Target and a bodega in the Bronx! I was obviously here in Buffalo all day, so there is no way it could have been me. I immediately reached for my purse to see if the card was still there, and it was! It had never left my possession, so how could this