If you are looking for a way to stay up to date on recent cases involving alleged fraud or theft throughout the country, the FBI’s website, fbi.gov, is a great source of information.
Below are some April 2017 fraud cases in the news referenced on the FBI’s website.
Pharmaceutical Theft
Read Article: $60 Million Heist Largest in Connecticut History
April 10, 2017
In the middle of a powerful March nor’easter that was lashing the East Coast with rain and wind, a tractor-trailer backed into a loading dock at a secluded warehouse in Enfield, Connecticut. It was late on a Saturday night. Before dawn the next morning, thieves had made off with $60 million worth of pharmaceuticals—the largest theft in the state’s history.
Forged Provenance
Read Article: Forging Papers to Sell Fake Art
April 6, 2017
Michigan art dealer Eric Ian Hornak Spoutz grew up in a family of artists. His namesake uncle, Ian Hornak, was famous among Hyperrealist and Photorealist painters, and his mother was a gifted painter as well.
Spoutz became an artist in his own right—a con artist peddling fakes. His specialty was forging paperwork that he used as proof of authenticity to sell bogus works.
Penny Stock Fraud Nets Millions
Read Article: Scheme Mastermind Among Those Sentenced to Prison
April 3, 2017
It was a fraud scheme involving penny stocks, but the scheme’s mastermind ended up making millions of dollars from unsuspecting investors around the country.
Craigslist Robbers
Read Article: California-Based Thieves Targeted Big-Money Items and Sellers
March 20, 2017
For the high-end jewelry sellers on the popular online classifieds site Craigslist, it must have seemed like their ship had come in: A prospective buyer in California offered not only their asking price but would fly them into town and have a limo waiting.
Fraud comes in many shapes and sizes. Not all fraud amounts to millions or billions of dollars, but it could greatly impact your personal or business finances. If you feel like you are the victim of fraud, you may want to look into Certified Fraud Investigation Services from a CFE.
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