This is just becoming a crime? Because I thought fraud was already a felony.
Apparently, according to news channel 6, staging a car for insurance fraud is now a crime which can be charged as a felony. Seems to me like this should have been a thing all along...
A contractor is to spend 18 months in Federal Prison for submitting fake invoices for projects in Binghamton and Buffalo to the Department of Transportation.
You get a phone call that places you into an immediate panic. It's the IRS, or maybe it's an "attorney for a family member" or your online girlfriend/boyfriend, and they need your help. All of which can be easily taken care of by dropping some money on a gift card...
The Broome County Office for Aging says they've received about a dozen calls from seniors reporting that someone from the IRS is calling and advising them that they're being sued. This is a scam.