Latest Fraud Headlines
All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Georgia Theft Ring Taking Entire Moving Vans and Their Belongings
Feb 14 2022 // Georgia authorities are investigating what may be an Atlanta-based theft ring that has stolen more than two dozen moving trucks, swiping families’ entire belongings in the process. Some of the victims were en route...
7 More Charged in Louisiana Staged Automobile Collision Scheme
Feb 14 2022 // Seven more people have been charged in New Orleans for their participation in a scheme to stage collisions with commercial trucks, bringing the total number of defendants charged in the federal probe up to 47. United...
Texas Judge Drops Two of Six Boeing Max Test Fraud Counts Against Pilot
Feb 14 2022 // A judge has tossed two of six fraud counts against a former Boeing pilot involved in evaluating the troubled Boeing 737 Max jetliner. A federal judge in Fort Worth last week dismissed, on technical grounds, counts that...
Owner of Cosmetic Clinics in California Admits $20M Insurance Fraud
Feb 11 2022 // The former owner of a group of health spas and clinics in Los Angeles has admitted to participating in a $20 million insurance fraud scheme involving Botox injections, laser hair removal and other procedures, federal...
Cyber Criminals Nabbed $1.3B in Ransom Payments Over 2 Years: Report
Feb 11 2022 // Criminals netted $1.3 billion in ransom payments from hacking victims in the past two years, reflecting a massive surge in cyber-crime that has prompted a global effort to stop it, according to a new report from...
Unlicensed California Agent Sentenced for $1.4M Insurance Fraud
Feb 11 2022 // Unlicensed insurance agent Karyl Lynn Reed, 58, formerly of Cosa Mesa, California, was convicted last week on multiple felony counts of embezzlement and white-collar fraud enhancements after defrauding three victims of...
Three Vie for Georgia Insurance Post: Trial Attorney, Insurance Agent, Former Cop
Feb 10 2022 // Although the election is still months away, the race for Georgia insurance commissioner already is a campaign of firsts — and some strong rhetoric aimed at insurance companies and regulators. Janice Laws Robinson, an...
Alabama Woman Wanted in Georgia Insurance Fraud Case
Feb 7 2022 // A Georgia judge has issued an arrest warrant for an Alabama woman who may have forged documents to receive more than three months of insurance benefits after a 2019 car crash. Tessa Blakely, 40, of Fort Mitchell, Alabama,...
New Crypto Coalition Vows to Address Potential for Fraud
Feb 7 2022 // A group of major cryptocurrency firms including Coinbase, Circle, Anchorage Digital and Huobi Global are forming a new coalition aimed at cracking down on market manipulation in an effort to instill trust in the burgeoning...
Insurers Deploy Predictive Analytics, Artificial Intelligence in Fraud Fight
Feb 7 2022 // Insurers are getting a larger share of suspicious claim referrals from fraud-detection technology and are increasingly using artificial intelligence to sift through data, according to a new study by the Coalition Against...
Six Charged in North Carolina Package-Delivery Theft Ring
Feb 4 2022 // Six people have been arrested in North Carolina for their roles in a theft ring in which package delivery drivers traded packages for drugs, police said. WGHP -TV reported that Eden police launched an investigation after...
Cybercrime Gang Tied to Ransomware Attacks in Germany, Colonial Pipeline Hackers
Feb 4 2022 // A Russia-linked cybercrime gang was allegedly responsible for ransomware attacks that took down a swath of Germany’s fuel-distribution system this week and hindered payments at some filling stations. Hackers using a...
Geico $4.5M Insurance Fraud Suit Seeks Documents From New York City Mayoral Aide
Feb 4 2022 // New York City Mayor Eric Adams’s chief of staff, Frank Carone, was subpoenaed for documents in a $4.5 million federal civil racketeering lawsuit over alleged fraudulent insurance charges. The subpoena to Carone, who...
State Farm Charges Chiro Clinics with Fraud in Gaming Florida’s PIP Law
Feb 3 2022 // In a federal lawsuit filed this week, State Farm Insurance accuses a chiropractor and his string of Florida clinics of widespread fraud by regularly and falsely claiming that car accident victims needed emergency care, so...
Missouri Man Pleads Guilty in Arson, Insurance Fraud Scheme
Feb 2 2022 // A Kansas City-area man has pleaded guilty to an arson and insurance fraud scheme that allegedly destroyed three houses from 2013 to 2019. Wandale J. Fulton, 40, was accused of conspiring with six others to buy houses,...
Three Charged in North Carolina in Insurance Fraud Schemes
Feb 1 2022 // A North Carolina man has been charged with fraud after he allegedly won an $8,000 roofing contract by presenting a fake certificate of liability insurance. State Insurance Commissioner Mike Causey said in a statement that...
California Auto Insurance Fraud Investigation Results in Charges for Couple
Jan 31 2022 // Edwin Saghian, 51, of Tarzana, California, was arraigned on Monday at the Fresno County Superior Court on five felony counts of insurance fraud after allegedly setting fire to his own vehicle and then reporting it stolen...
Insurers Deploy Predictive Analytics, Artificial Intelligence in Fraud Fight
Jan 31 2022 // Insurers are getting a larger share of suspicious claim referrals from fraud-detection technology and are increasingly using artificial intelligence to sift through data, according to a new study by the Coalition Against...
Officials of AstraZeneca China Summoned About Probe of Suspected Insurance Fraud
Jan 31 2022 // Chinese authorities summoned officials of AstraZeneca China regarding an investigation of suspected medical insurance fraud by the company’s employees, the National Healthcare Security Administration (NHSA) said on...
Michigan Woman Sentenced For Committing $15,000 in Auto Insurance Fraud
Jan 28 2022 // Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel and Michigan Department of Insurance and Financial Services (DIFS) Director Anita Fox announced that a Michigan resident who pled guilty to auto insurance fraud has been sentenced to...
