Colombians Busted for Faking Hard-To-Copy $20 Bill
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By Hugh Bronstein BOGOTA, Colombia  - Colombian police confiscated$600,000 in counterfeit U.S. currency from a Medellin printingshop, the first time authorities have caught anyone using aprinting press to duplicate the new, hard to copy, $20 bill.
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An innocent financial background check can send ripples through your credit file.
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BOGOTA, Colombia  - Here's a good way to make a  buck if you're in Colombia.
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Conman dupes call centre staff into sending him a credit card in the chairman's name
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BUTTE, Mont. - Two men who tried to pay for a pizza delivery with a forged check were arrested following a sting operation involving an officer disguised as a Papa John's employee.
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The social engineers known as phishers very nearly reeled in a big one earlier this year: a Minnesota-based grocery chain was duped into making over $10 million in deposits to two fraudulent accounts.
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US telecoms giant AT&T says hackers have stolen the credit card details of almost 20,000 online customers.
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BOGOTA, Colombia  - Colombia on Thursday seized  hundreds of drug stores across the country suspected of money  laundering for the Cali cocaine cartel, in the biggest property  seizure in Colombia's history.
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The scam didn't seek much money, just $20 to $60 per business. But add it up across the nation, and the sum easily could reach into hundreds of thousands of dollars, perhaps more.
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Teachers, students and administrators tampered with a private college's computer system to change grades and create fake degrees for money, prosecutors charged Monday. Among the fake degrees given were those for physicians' assistants, they said.
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SMOKERS who puff on 20 counterfeit cigarettes a day are having the equivalent of 100 legal ones, they were warned yesterday. The fakes, made in underground factories and sold cheap on the
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A German grandmother landed her 19-year-old grandson in trouble at the weekend by sending him a fake 100-euro note which he tried to spend, police said on Monday.
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Two mid-level D.C. government employees used phony paperwork to collect more than $16 million from illegal tax refunds, avoiding detection for at least three years while issuing more than 40 checks cashed by friends and family members in on the scam, prosecutors said yesterday.
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A Spaniard was sentenced Tuesday to 18 months in prison for stealing the equivalent of a dollar from a pay phone 13 years ago.
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Thousands of notes thought to have been stolen in last week's Northern Bank robbery are legitimately in circulation.
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The U.S. government will offer over the Internet low-quality images of its new $50 bill for artists, students and others who discover that their computers, scanners or printers won't allow them to view or copy pictures of the new currency.
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Ten employees have been caught faking orders in order to receive kickbacks, Japanese electronics maker NEC disclosed on Tuesday. In total, the ten made over $4.1 million on $18 million in forged orders.