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How scams work, who they target, and what to do — explained in plain English.
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Zhong Jiang, 34, of Orland Hills, Ill., is charged in Michigan after police say he posed as a crypto investor and took about $665,000 in cash.
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William Bernard Tunink, 73, a registered broker and CPA, is charged with 10 counts of wire fraud in an alleged Ponzi scheme with $2M+ in investor losses.
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Roosevelt 'Toby' Bailey and attorney Alvin Jones are charged over alleged Borg Global Ponzi schemes that ran investor money through lawyer trust accounts.
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Moshe Levi of Carrollton, Texas, agreed to plead guilty in a scheme prosecutors say used fake IDs to sell vacant land in four states without the owners.
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Mercedes Reshard New, aka 'Shawty Dred,' is charged with using 350+ SNAP accounts opened in stolen identities to take about $4 million in food benefits.
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Lance Riddle got 200 months and Joey Amour Jackson 120 for posing as police from a Georgia prison and demanding 'bond' for missed jury duty.
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Jorag Yaseen and Rami Kanaan are charged with using Chicago food stores to run fake SNAP sales on stolen Ohio EBT account data, a $29.7M alleged loss.
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Jeshon Bingham and seven others are charged in SDNY with using social media to recruit bank account holders and deposit fake checks and Treasury notes.
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Ivan Odiaga got 38 months for filing false returns seeking $5M+ in refunds at Silver State Tax & Multiservices and diverting client refunds to himself.
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Brenda Copeland and five others are charged with billing Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois $19 million for therapy that allegedly never happened.
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A Colorado grand jury indicted Stephanie Laugier, 27, and Thierno Barry, 29, on 37 felonies in an alleged fake-ID scheme to drain home equity credit lines.
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Robert Wayne Boling Jr., 45, pleaded guilty to wire fraud and laundering conspiracies in a scheme that drained servicemembers' and veterans' accounts.
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Qianlin Zheng, 28, charged in a Stamford, Conn., courier scam, was arrested again Oct. 14 at a police-watched $28,000 pickup in Parkesburg, Pa.
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A jury convicted Patrick Britton-Harr, 42, of Annapolis of billing Medicare $18.7M for respiratory tests nursing home residents didn't need or never got.
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Michael D'Antoni, 68, is charged with grand larceny over an alleged fake Levi's manufacturing investment that took $343,200 from three older New Yorkers.
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Mauricio Villamarin and four others face a 78-count Queens indictment over a fake fix-and-flip firm that allegedly put loans in investors' names.
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Marc Aaron Potash, 57, of Rockville, Md., is charged with billing insurers $100M+ for mailed at-home COVID tests as if his lab had given them.
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Jonathan Ernest Girodes, 48, pleaded guilty to grand larceny for stealing $250K from clients told to put tax money in 'escrow' for IRS deals he never got.
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2nd Milk co-founder Jason Carney got 192 months for diverting over $2M donated for orphans in Malawi; his wife Lacey Carney got 36 months for misprision.
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Anchored Tiny Homes co-founders Colton and Austin Paulhus each face 35 felony counts, including diverting construction funds, after 200+ ADU complaints.
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A jury convicted Seth Allen Aikens II, 29, of Crown, Pa., of 30 fraud and laundering counts for selling software services his businesses couldn't deliver.
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Michael Edwards, 31, of Bridgeport, Conn., got 8 years for a ring that stole 2,600+ checks from USPS mailboxes, washed them and sold them on Telegram.
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Miami art dealer Leslie Roberts, 62, got 46 months for selling forged Andy Warhol works backed by fake foundation invoices, certificates and stamps.
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Joshua Thomas Jackson, 41, of Palm Bay, Fla., got 51 months and must repay $2.8M after taking $3M+ from investors with false real estate promises.
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James L. Townes Jr., 51, of Berkeley, Mo., admitted using forged deeds and notary seals to take at least 14 St. Louis-area properties.
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Elmin Redzepagic, 25, of Wolcott, Conn., pleaded guilty to taking investors' money for crypto, demanding 'gas fees' and gambling it away on Stake.com.
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Edikan Adiakpan, 35, of Houston, got 30 months for moving business email compromise proceeds through a 'luxury car service'; Ayobami Omoniyi got 32.
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Pastor Cristian Popescu, 46, of Bothell, Wash., is charged with wire fraud and money laundering in an alleged $13M scheme pitched to his congregation.
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Chukwuemeka Victor Amachukwu, 40, got 8 years for hacking U.S. tax preparers to file fake returns and selling nonexistent standby letters of credit.
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Bob Hunter, 72, of Springfield, Mo., got 48 months for diverting $373,230.50 meant for clients' retirement plans and sending fake account reports.
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