All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 21 2023 // Capita Plc, one of the UK’s biggest outsourcing companies, said that customer data may have been stolen during a recent cyberattack.There is “currently some evidence of limited data exfiltration from the small...
Apr 21 2023 // A Pennsylvania grand jury in recent months accused nine men with connections to the Jehovah’s Witnesses of child sexual abuse in what some consider the nation’s most comprehensive investigation yet into abuse...
Apr 19 2023 // The son of the late Major League Baseball Hall of Famer Roberto Clemente alleges that Allstate Insurance Co. committed fraud when it cancelled his family agency’s agreement after accusing them of fraud for using auto...
Apr 18 2023 // California private security company owner Luis Burgos, 50, and his former business partner, Sohan Singh, 57, were charged for their alleged involvement in a workers’ compensation insurance fraud scheme after an...
Apr 17 2023 // More than 18 months after he pleaded guilty to absconding with almost $5 million in premiums, a Florida insurance agent has been sentenced to 14 years in prison.John M. Thomas, 52, the former owner of Thomas Insurance...
Apr 14 2023 // A former Los Angeles auctioneer has agreed to plead guilty in a cross-country art fraud scheme where he created fake artwork and falsely attributed the paintings to artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, federal prosecutors said...
Apr 14 2023 // Landstar Ranger, a transportation broker based in Jacksonville, sent a truck driver who called himself “James” to pick up cargo in Colorado for delivery to Maryland.A dispatcher authorized the pickup even...
Apr 14 2023 // New York City officials unveiled three new high-tech policing devices Tuesday, including a robotic dog that critics called creepy when it first joined the police pack 2 1/2 years ago.The new devices, which also include a...
Apr 13 2023 // Seven members of an organized theft crew were arrested yesterday and charged in connection with stealing catalytic converters from more than 470 vehicles in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. For the alleged ringleader,...
Apr 13 2023 // A Boston woman recently guilty in federal court in Boston to her role in a scheme to defraud an insurance provider for physical therapy services that were not provided to patients.Gyulnara Bayryshova pleaded guilty to one...
Apr 13 2023 // Five defendants were arraigned this week on multiple felony counts of insurance fraud after a California Department of Insurance investigation found a landscaping company some of the defendants owned allegedly...
Apr 12 2023 // An East Hartford man has pleaded guilty to participating in a stolen catalytic converter trafficking ring.Bryant Bermudez pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit interstate transportation of stolen property and...
Apr 12 2023 // A California Department of Insurance-led investigation with assistance from the California Department of Justice has resulted in the arraignment of 12 suspects on more than 110 felony counts including conspiracy, insurance...
Apr 11 2023 // Formerly licensed insurance agent Gregory Magedman, 77, of Fullerton, California, appeared in court on one felony count of grand theft by embezzlement after allegedly failing to give an insurance payment to a...
Apr 6 2023 // Walsh Construction Co. and Melo’s Rodbusters, Inc. have agreed to pay $1.24 million collectively to resolve False Claims Act allegations that they participated in a fraudulent scheme to take advantage of the federal...
Apr 5 2023 // An Australian government-backed service for victims of identity theft blasted a plan to toughen privacy laws amid an explosion of online data theft, saying it would spur compromised companies to pay ransom and invite more...
Apr 3 2023 // The city of Buffalo has filed suit against Kia and Hyundai seeking to hold the carmakers responsible for the rash of auto thefts caused by their alleged failure to include industry-standard anti-theft technology.Buffalo...
Mar 31 2023 // Richemont is building a digital platform to help police forces worldwide fight theft of luxury watches and jewelry.The platform is open to the entire luxury industry and owners can register their collections using the...
Mar 28 2023 // The city of St. Louis, Missouri, said on Monday it was joining a number of major U.S. cities that are suing Korean automakers Hyundai Motor 005380.KS and Kia Corp 000270.KS for failing to install anti-theft technology in...
Mar 24 2023 // When it comes to investigating SIU claims, metadata can be extremely revealing and may even provide evidence that a crime, such as insurance fraud, occurred. In simple terms, metadata is data that provides information...