fraud

A Monmouth County investment adviser finds himself in trouble for defrauding clients out of millions of dollars, forging an attorney's signature and preparing false tax returns.

More and more we are being bombarded by phony telephone calls. All day long our phone rings and it's hardly a legitimate call. Both our house and cell phones! Now authorities here in Ocean and Monmouth Counties are warning residents about the latest phone scam...

We've heard it before but it's worth repeating:  Always check your credit card statements before paying the bill.  I recently discovered $400 worth of airline tickets were billed to my card.  Had I not noticed the charges on my statement, the would-be thief would have gotten free flights on my dime...

The head of a tax preparation firm, who calls Beachwood home, woman can expect to spend up to eight years in prison for illegally collecting $345,213 in unemployment benefits over a span of nearly three years.

Accused of defrauding donors who believed all their money would assist cancer patients, two national charities have agreed to a $75.8 million settlement.

Scores of truly-in-need New Jersey residents receive welfare benefits on a regular basis, but there are many folks receiving too much assistance — or help they didn't deserve in the first place.

A Toms River man who admitted filing false information to collect $218,209 in federal and state Superstorm aid faces a year minus a day in the Ocean County Jail.

Two contractors from Barnegat are facing charges after a five-month investigation by Stafford Police and the Ocean County Prosecutor's Office. Police arrested Michael Albanese, 52, and George Larosa, 46, on Friday on charges of Second-Degree Theft by Deception and Conspiracy to Commit Theft...

If your signature consists of a squiggly line or just a couple legible letters, you could be making yourself an easy target for fraud.

The supervisor at the former Monmouth County Youth Detention Center, his wife and another women were arrested this week as part of a workers' comp fraud case. Ricky and Donna Marter of Manalapan and Christine Bradach of Freehold face charges that range from Theft by Deception and Insurance Fraud to Conspiracy and Perjury counts with regard to a 2010 on the job slip-and-fall accident at the county