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How to Avoid Medicare Fraud 09/26/2024 08:00pm • Last year, Jean Bound received a package with COVID tests that she hadn't ordered. She called the company whose name was on the packing list to say she hadn't ordered them. In response, she was told not to worry, because Medicare had been billed and would be taking care of the cost. She immediately Is that really a census taker knocking on your door? 09/25/2024 04:08am • It is 8 p.m. and you get a knock at the door. It���s someone claiming to be a U.S. Census worker, looking to gather personal information about you. Is it safe to open the door? That was the question WTOP's Anne Kramer had when she received a similar visit to her home. ���I thought to myself, ' Cambodia decries US sanctions against one of its top tycoons implicated in forced labor 09/13/2024 09:10am • PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) ��� Cambodia on Friday decried newly imposed U.S. sanctions on one of the country's top tycoons who has been implicated in allegations of forced labor, human trafficking and lucrative online scams. Cambodia���s foreign ministry expressed ���deep regret over the unjust decis How social media became a storefront for deadly fake pills 09/12/2024 09:10pm • Coco loved being the life of the party ��� cracking jokes, doing pranks and making people laugh, her mom, Julianna Arnold, recalled recently. ���Her favorite pastime was fashion,��� Arnold said. ���She didn���t like looking at magazines or going to fancy stores, but preferred to make her own creatio Protect Your Money From Zelle Scams 09/12/2024 08:00pm • Zelle is an electronic person-to-person payment service offered by many U.S. banks as an alternative to nonbank P2P services, like PayPal or Venmo. Zelle is convenient, safe, secure and usually free if you have a bank checking or savings account. Those benefits, combined with Zelle's near-instant an 9 of the Biggest Financial Fraud Cases in Recent History 09/10/2024 08:00pm • The famous ancient Greek dramatist Sophocles once said he'd rather "fail in honor rather than succeed by fraud." Sophocles might be irked, if he were alive today, by the many criminal opportunists who fail to see fraud in that way -- especially in tough economic times. From stock swindling to crypto Las Vegas man pleads guilty in lucrative telemarketing scam 09/10/2024 04:44pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� A Las Vegas man pleaded guilty Tuesday to a federal criminal charge alleging that he duped people into donating tens of millions of dollars to what they thought were charities, but were really political action committees or his own companies. Richard Zeitlin, 54, entered the plea t Watch your money! Don't fall for phony donation campaigns 09/02/2024 01:38pm • With all the attention and fundraising surrounding the upcoming presidential and congressional races, scammers are looking to take money from unsuspecting people willing to open their wallets to support a candidate or cause. Tech reporter Kim Komando offered guidance on what to watch for in her b Claw machine games are Rio de Janeiro's new public enemy 08/29/2024 04:31pm • RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) ��� Rio de Janeiro ��� already notorious for street muggings, corrupt politicians, ruthless militias and Kalashnikov-toting drug traffickers ��� has a new public enemy: plushies. Or, more specifically, the joystick-controlled claw machines that dispense them. On Wednesday, Rio po FBI wants you to 'Take A Beat' as cases of fraud and scams grow 08/20/2024 04:03am • Responding to a sharp rise in financial fraud and scams, the FBI has launched a nationwide campaign urging the public to resist the pressure and act with caution when it comes to potentially fraudulent offers. The "Take A Beat" campaign encourages the public to stop and think things over when con VDOT warns of text message scams involving bogus toll charges 08/14/2024 01:40pm • The Virginia Department of Transportation is warning drivers of scam text messages involving bogus E-ZPass toll charges. In a message posted on Facebook, VDOT said the scam messages send people requests for payment for toll charges along with a link to a fake website. VDOT does communicate 'Organized crime at the highest level': At least 5 people in gold bar scam, Montgomery Co. officials say 08/13/2024 05:50am • Montgomery County, Maryland, law enforcement officials are urging the public to be vigilant about an ongoing scam in which a growing number of seniors have already lost millions of dollars. So far at least five people have been arrested and charged in these schemes, Montgomery County State���s At Fairfax students' award-winning scam detection site uses AI to tell you what's 'too good to be true' 07/31/2024 04:37pm • Advik Atyam never expected to be scammed, but he too became a victim while reselling computer parts during the pandemic. He was in eighth grade at the time, and was talking to someone who wanted to buy his keyboard. Atyam named his price and they agreed to make the deal over PayPal. While the Do you recognize that phone number? Prince George's Co. police have tips on how to avoid over-the-phone scammers 07/30/2024 05:30pm • Scam artists keep getting more sophisticated, and the sheer number of them and the amount of money they've taken continues to spike compared to a year ago. That has Prince George���s County police reminding people about what to watch for, while revealing more about how scammers target victims. In Trump, GOP lawmakers react to Biden's decision to leave presidential race 07/21/2024 03:09pm • ▶ Watch Video: How Trump campaign is shifting its strategy with Biden out of race President Biden's unprecedented announcement on Sunday that he is dropping out of the 2024 presidential race prompted reactions from both sides of the aisle. Here's how forme