Fraud

Sometimes love hurts so much that the only people who can help are the police—unlikely confidants for the brokenhearted. But when someone claims to love you only to steal hundreds or thousands of dollars, that’s both a heartache and a prosecutable crime. Both women...

When schemers meet dreamers, visions of driving out of a four-car garage in a new Lamborghini can mess with cognitive thinking. Piles of “Benjamin Franklins” staring you in the face has that effect, and when the money starts to dwindle, those dreams turn into...

We’ve all seen those pharmaceutical ads featuring smiling people hiking through the forest or enjoying life with increased vigor thanks to some medication. Then the announcer lists the side effects—could cause nausea, allergic reactions—and sometimes death....