MARLBOROUGH — The Better Business Bureau issued an urgent SCAM alert cautioning businesses and consumers about an email that looks like it is from BBB, with the subject line “Complaint from your customers.” This e-mail is fraudulent. BBB warns you to ignore its contents and delete it immediately. If you have already clicked on a [...]
BBB warns consumers about fake email claiming to be from Better Business Bureau
Dec. 7, 2011 Leave a Comment
Former Boston cop sentenced in disability scheme
June 6, 2011 Leave a Comment
A former Boston Police Officer was sentenced to fifteen months in prison today for a fraud scheme involving work-related disability claim. Eliezer Gonzalez, 50, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Richard G. Stearns after pleading guilty to 34 counts of mail fraud in February. Gonzalez will serve fifteen months in prison followed by two years [...]
El Centro hospital fined $2.2 million for fraud
Sept. 20, 2010 Leave a Comment
SAN DIEGO — The El Centro Regional Medical Center in Imperial County, Calif., has agreed to pay the US government $2.2 million, plus interest, to settle allegations it defrauded Medicare, the Justice Department announced today. The case was brought by a whistleblower, protected under federal law. The government alleged that the 165-bed acute care hospital [...]
Afghans will go to the polls tomorrow
Sept. 17, 2010 Leave a Comment
Parliamentary elections in Afghanistan will go ahead tomorrow, marred by allegations of fraud and tampering against election candidates, and, most recently, by the kidnapping of a candidate and 18 election workers by Taliban members. Earlier this week printers in Peshawar claimed they were told by Afghan election candidates to produce and laminate fake voter cards [...]
FBI: Major cyber attacks in the rise
Oct. 17, 2008 Leave a Comment
The bad guys are going virtual more and more, and American businesses and government networks are getting victimized at a record pace, according to an FBI report. “The increasing number of such crimes not only impacts the economy but threatens national security,” the FBI said Friday. The man at the head of the opposition is [...]
