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Rising (stylised RISING) is a city-wide arts festival held in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia. The festival was announced in 2020 as Naarm/Melbourne's premier arts and culture festival, replacing the Melbourne International Arts Festival and White Night Festival , and is supported by the Victoria State Government .
Detectives probing the death of a 96-year-old California woman nearly two years ago have uncovered she was the victim of an elaborate murder-for-hire and reverse-mortgage scam that sought to gain ...
Richard Pryde Boggs (May 15, 1933 – March 6, 2003) was a Californian neurologist who was sentenced to life in prison in 1990 for his part in a scheme that involved murdering a man and giving the victim another man's identity in order to collect on a $1.5 million life insurance policy.
Scams and confidence tricks are difficult to classify, because they change often and often contain elements of more than one type. Throughout this list, the perpetrator of the confidence trick is called the "con artist" or simply "artist", and the intended victim is the "mark".
The California Highway Patrol (CHP) is warning parents about scammers using the fear of child abduction to gain sensitive information.. CHP officials said scammers are posing as “AMBER Alert ...
The scam using doll faces to create false IDs made up a small part of the estimated $80bn in fraud connected to the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), according to The Messenger.
The Bribery and Special Interest (BRISPEC) sting operation was a sting operation conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation that investigated corruption in the California State Legislature from 1986 to 1988. The operation, later known as Shrimpscam in the press, involved setting up dummy companies by the FBI.
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Southern California doctors were bribed to prescribe a pain-relief concoction as part of a $25 million workers' compensation scam that inadvertently caused a baby's death ...