Despite staff warnings, the principal talked with the scammer for months, thinking Elon Musk would donate millions in exchange for $100,000 upfront.

CHELSEA, MI – Police are investigating a fraud complaint after an alleged suspected scammer conned a Chelsea man into sending him a check for a bogus TV upgrade. The man told officers he received a ...

It was just another check for Lindsay Aleman. “So I owed Delaware, the state of Delaware, some money from when I lived there,” Aleman said. Aleman wrote the check last June to the Delaware Division of ...

A popular scam involving fake checks and gift cards took a new twist that snared a Warren County woman, Hackettstown police said. The ruse involves a scammer mailing a fake or fraudulent check to a ...

NEWTOWN, Ohio (WKRC) - If you're going to run a "fake check" scam, don't bother sending one to a police chief. Newtown Police Chief Tom Synan knew pretty quickly that the check with his name on it ...

GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colorado – Police arrested a Nevada man Wednesday on suspicion of theft and forgery after he allegedly bilked two local convenience stores this week with an elaborate check-cashing ...

APPLETON, Wis. (WBAY) - When you commit a scam by mail, it pays to double-check the address. An Appleton police captain received a fraudulent check, which he immediately recognized was a scam. The ...

HACKETTSTOWN — A Mansfield woman who thought she was talking on the phone to New Kids on the Block member Jordan Knight instead fell prey to a scammer in Nigeria, police said. Unfortunately for ...

He’s the Air Jordan bandit, prosecutors claim. A man accused of orchestrating a check-cashing scheme that ripped off more than $100,000 from New York banks used the cash to fund a rabid sneaker ...

San Francisco resident Matthew Shinnick tried to sell a pair of mountain bikes on Craigslist late last year. He attracted a buyer, received a check in the mail -- and ended up handcuffed by police in ...

A popular scam involving fake checks and gift cards took a new twist that snared a Warren County, PA woman, Hackettstown police said. The ruse involves a scammer mailing a fake or fraudulent check to ...

A popular scam involving fake checks and gift cards took a new twist that snared a Warren County woman, Hackettstown police said. The ruse involves a scammer mailing a fake or fraudulent check to a ...