Hispanic lottery scam spotted in Conyers
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Letters about a phony Spanish sweepstakes are being sent to Rockdale County residents, and police warn it's an identity theft scam.
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Republican students in New York spark claims of racism with a game called "Find the Illegal Immigrant".
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By Doug Kreutz, The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson  Sep. 17--You know Tucson like the back of your hand.   Of course you do.   Here's your chance to prove it -- and possibly win a prize in the bargain.
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By Robert Lopez, The Beaumont Enterprise, Texas  Sep. 10--The call came on Tuesday. I looked at the caller ID and saw an unfamiliar area code and assumed it was a West Coast publicity agent returning a call for one of several entertainment stories I was working on.
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HOLTSVILLE, N.Y. - If money could buy happiness, these thieves would be overjoyed. They stole the ATM.  Packs of thieves have been swiping the cash machines from drugstores and mom-and-pop shops around Suffolk County, most recently before dawn Friday.
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Property scams create legal chaos Identity thieves posed as home owners in order to sell the rental property of an elderly Canadian immigrant.â¦
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden - A Swedish teenager who shoplifted a winning lottery ticket that could be worth as much as $1 million has discovered the truth in that old adage 'crime doesn't pay'.    The 15-year-old boy stole the scrape-off lottery ticket from a grocery store outside the northeastern Swedish town of Oernskoeldsvik last week, local media reported Tuesday...
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Seattle Mariners shortstop Yuniesky Betancourt and the family of Chicago White Sox pitcher Jose Contreras were among the Cubans allegedly smuggled into the United States by an agent and others accused of immigration violations, federal prosecutors say.
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Man had been charged with one of the largest such scams in U.S. history.
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The immigration battle and the new presidential primary schedule have amplified the influence of Hispanic voters.
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(CBS/AP) When Debi and Steve Cifelli heard they&#39;d won California&#39;s $27 million lottery jackpot, their first reaction was what you might expect.
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Authorities threatened a Texas native with deportation after unpaid tickets landed her in jail and officers mistook her for an illegal immigrant with the same name and birthday.
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Residents were abuzz Thursday over the chance that a local Â maybe someone who helped fix some of what Hurricane Katrina and the looters did Â is the person sitting on a $97 million Powerball ticket.
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Federal prosecutors said they uncovered a mortgage fraud scheme involving at least 28 properties in South Florida and fraudulent loans totaling more than $14.2 million.
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People are being warned about a scam e-mail which uses the US presidential poll to con them out of their money. A junk e-mail invites people to dial a premium rate number to express their
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El Gordo ladrones Spanish police have arrested ten Nigerians suspected of running a spam-fuelled lottery scam that raked in â¬19,000 ($28,000) in illicit earnings over three months.â¦
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At least two people can claim a share of a record $370 million lottery jackpot, and there could be more winners