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One Chicago man cooked up an elaborate scheme that tricked two sisters out of $36,000 in cash collectively by using the brand of GRAMMY-winning rapper Chance The Rapper as a pawn in his diabolical scam.

A Texas-based Christian radio host was sentenced to three life prison sentences Monday for a Ponzi scheme in which he bilked elderly listeners out of millions of dollars.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — An online scam that targeted Puerto Rican agencies attempted to steal more than $4 million, police said Thursday, deepening concerns about the management of local government finances during an economic crisis. Authorities have frozen at least $2.9 million, said an official who was not authorized to comment on the […]

MIAMI (AP) — A South Florida woman who claimed to be a psychic fortune teller has been sentenced to three years and four months in prison for taking $1.6 million from a Texas woman to remove a curse from her family. Court records show that 28-year-old Sherry Tina Uwanawich was sentenced last week in Miami. […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The relationship between a Japanese woman and a U.S. Army captain stationed in Syria started online, through an international social network for digital pen pals. It grew into an internet romance over 10 months of daily emails. It ended with the woman $200,000 poorer and on the verge of bankruptcy after […]

A lot of people are looking for love but this woman went about it the wrong way. She met a man on Match.com and the pair agreed to get married and buy a house after just a week. So of course she sent her future husband 80K for the house and furniture. Shortly after she […]

A Georgia man has reportedly been sentenced in connection to a scheme to obtain the personal information of school district employees in Connecticut. According to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Olukayode Ibrahim Lawal was sentenced to about 10 months in prison,  time he’s already served in New Haven, Connecticut. Lawal was reportedly indicted in May 2018 and pleaded guilty to one count […]

A teenager set up an elaborate online business scheme to try to steal more than $20 million from the state of Georgia, reports Channel 2 Action News.  Charles Turner, 18, was arrested Thursday morning. He was waiting on a paper check from the State Department of Revenue, per arrangements he unknowingly made with undercover agents. Last month, a […]

Remember the feel good story about the homeless man who gave his last $20 to a lady for gas? It came out that not only did the woman and her boyfriend not give the man any of the money they raised through GoFundMe, but he was in on it too! Yep, the homeless man, the […]

A California woman started a GoFundMe account to raise money for her husband who was fighting the wild fires. While it seems like a sweet thing to do, it was actually horrible. It has recently come out that not only was her husband not a fire fighter, she doesn’t even have a husband! People please […]

FLORENCE, N.J. (AP) — A homeless good Samaritan who claims a New Jersey couple mismanaged the $400,000 they raised for him online will receive all of the funds he’s due while the couple is now under criminal investigation. In a joint statement issued late Thursday, GoFundMe and the law firm representing Johnny Bobbitt said he […]

The owner of a travel agency in Louisiana’s Jefferson Parish was arrested after being accused of bilking several dozen 2018 Essence Festival attendees out of tens of thousands of dollars for vacation packages that she didn’t deliver, reports NOLA.com. Nakesia Washington, the 41-year-old owner of OBL Travel LLC., was booked Aug. 2 with theft of more […]