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Authorities say a man and a woman used the movie prop money to buy expensive lawn equipment at a Walmart in Buford on July 19, reports WAGA. The duo used over $1,000 in fake bills that are clearly ...
Historical marker at the site of the Georgia Capitol at the time. The Yazoo land scandal, Yazoo fraud, Yazoo land fraud, or Yazoo land controversy was a massive real-estate fraud perpetrated, in the mid-1790s, by Georgia governor George Mathews [1] and the Georgia General Assembly.
The Spanish Prisoner scam—and its modern variant, the advance-fee scam or "Nigerian letter scam"—involves enlisting the mark to aid in retrieving some stolen money from its hiding place. The victim sometimes believes they can cheat the con artists out of their money, but anyone trying this has already fallen for the essential con by ...
Counterfeit money is currency produced outside of the legal sanction of a state or government, usually in a deliberate attempt to imitate that currency and so as to deceive its recipient. Producing or using counterfeit money is a form of fraud or forgery , and is illegal in all jurisdictions of the world.
A Georgia man has been arrested for posing as a Neal Land & Communities representative to defraud Manatee County of nearly $1.4 million.
A number of Georgia drivers have been targeted by a scam involving fake text messages about ... alert and recognize whether or not it is legit or ... the bank and credit card company. This can ...
Double scammers, known as reloaders, use several methods to repeatedly victimize consumers. For example, if they have lost money to a fraudulent telemarketing scheme, they may get a call from someone claiming to work for a government agency, private company or consumer organization that could recover their lost money, product or prize—for a fee.
A Kentucky man who used movie prop money to buy a pickup truck and other items has been sentenced to four years and four months in federal prison. A judge also fined Timothy Noble $8,200.