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The former owner of a funeral home in Princeton, British Columbia, has been charged with fraud for
Mike had his phone stolen and $239 in fraudulent calls made to Africa on November 4th, and even though he reported the charges on November 5th, Tmobile says he still has to pay up. Their inviolable policy is that you're responsible for the charges up until you report the phone as stolen.
A reader writes in that he noticed an unusual charge for $8.95 on his bank card recently. He looked up the number connected to the charge—866-305-8808—at the website
Police suspect that a card skimmer installed at a gas station in El Monte, CA is responsible for $10,000 in credit card fraud, says KNBC:"It looks like the victims were gassing up here and using the outside pump terminals, and their credit card information was compromised," El Monte police Detective Brian Glick said.
Police don't believe it was an inside job but that the fraud artists picked the station in the 4300 block North Santa Anita Avenue because of its high customer volume.
Fraudulent withdrawals, ranging from $400 to $1,500 per customer, were made in Las Vegas, Palms Springs and New York, police said. Police didn't find the device, but think that 45 credit/debit accounts with transactions from the same gas station is, uh, a bit of a coincidence.
Freddie Mac produced this video to educate borrowers who face foreclosure about a fraud scheme where "a con artist will seek out a public notice of foreclosure and approach the potential victim with documents and the promise o