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California tax officials say an interior designer's false disability claim was uncovered when he was spotted on a home improvement television show.
An Ohio jeweler says thieves who smashed their way into his store and got away with rings are in for a surprise when they try to sell them. Henry Triplett of Henry's Jewelers in Toledo says what appeared to be thousands of dollars in gold rings in his display cases were actually rings made of brass and worth barely 25 cents apiece.
Authorities say a Texas woman lied about having breast cancer and spent $10,000 raised at a benefit to have her breasts enlarged. McLennan County sheriff's investigator James Pack says in court records that 24-year-old Trista Joy Lathern shaved her head to look like a cancer patient undergoing chemotherapy.
Police said an East Texas man has outsmarted himself in trying to get a quicker response from officers to an alleged assault. Tyler police said 38-year-old Mark Anthony Johnson called 911 on Monday night and reported that he'd just committed a homicide and was armed with a weapon.
Police in Virginia say three would-be bounty hunters face charges after they impersonated drug task force agents and nabbed the wrong woman.
A former executive of Biopure Corp. has been sentenced to three years in prison for pretending he had terminal colon cancer to dodge a federal lawsuit filed by securities regulators.
A man has been charged in Los Angeles with posing as a fertility doctor so he could sexually molest people while pretending to give them physical examinations.
Authorities said they have arrested a 30-year-old Pensacola man for impersonating a law enforcement officer. According to a sheriff's office news release, Michael Gainey was arrested after he approached teenagers in a convenience store parking lot and said he was a deputy. He allegedly searched at least at least one teen and told another to take a urine test.
Turkish military police said Thursday that they had stormed an Istanbul villa to rescue nine captive women whose scantily clad images were posted online after they were recruited for a television reality show.
German police have confiscated hundreds of bronze and plaster statues alleged to be the works of Alberto Giacometti and arrested an art dealer and two others on suspicion of selling the fakes across the globe.
A Southern California man sent to prison for seven years for falsely claiming to be an attorney has been sentenced to two more years for posing as a lawyer again days after he was released.
Brooklyn residents are riled over a performance artist who's been delivering bags of fake crack. The Daily News reported that Nate Hill makes the deliveries dressed in a white tuxedo and a dolphin headpiece. He shows up between 10 p.m. and 2 a.m., like a real drug pusher.
Law enforcement officials and business owners across the country say they have seen a significant spike in the circulation of counterfeit currency since the economy started to sour.
Federal authorities say a man who duped people out of more than $3.3 million by posing as an Oscar-winning sound engineer is facing wire fraud and tax evasion charges.
A Connecticut woman who authorities say spent more than $2,000 to stage a dinner honoring her as "Nurse of the Year" has been charged with pretending to be a nurse at a doctor's office. Betty Lichtenstein, 56, of Norwalk was charged Thursday.
Veteran Hollywood Police Officer Dewey Pressley said he hated lying. But if bending the truth a little would keep a fellow officer out of trouble, well, he was all for it.
Call it the case of the dead cells — both telephones and the ones in the brain. Employees at a Telefonica Movistar cell-phone store in Morelia, Mexico say they arrived Tuesday morning to find that the store had been broken into.
New Haven police said a claim of swine flu threw confusion into a domestic dispute and stalled an arrest. Police say they had gone to a home to arrest a 16-year-old, but a woman in the house told them that the home was under quarantine for swine flu. Police put on face masks and a prisoner van arrived, but refused to take the teen after hearing about the swine flu claim.
Police say two suspected California counterfeiters operated a massive bogus driver's license ring for customers in the West and Mexico.
Pennsylvania State Police are looking for a man they say sweet-talked a shop owner into accepting a fake $20 coin as payment for ice cream. Police said the man told the proprietor of Willow Tree Ice Cream on Friday evening that the coin was something the government has just begun issuing.
A Facebook e-mail phishing scheme was discovered early Thursday among users of the popular social networking site who may have inadvertently clicked on a fraudulent Web link included in a Facebook message to them.
The teenager accused of donning a Chicago police uniform and going on patrol earlier this year is in more legal trouble after he dressed like a grown-up to allegedly take a car from a dealership.
Hey Twitter, the widow of the president of Nigeria asked me to tell you that she’s got 12 Million dollars for you if you stop screwing with fake celebrities on your service!
Mexican experts say that five paintings purportedly done by Mexican artist Frida Kahlo are apparently fakes.
Sheriff's officials in Arizona say a man impersonated an elected justice of the peace and performed several weddings whose legality are now in doubt. Yavapai County Sheriff's spokesman Dwight D'Evelyn says 41-year-old Allen Elfman was arrested Tuesday on charges of fraud, forgery, criminal impersonation, impersonating a public servant and tampering with a public record.
Man allegedly reports fake murder to speed police Police said an East Texas man has outsmarted himself in trying to get a quicker response from officers to an alleged assault.
Fake Lawyer Arrested, Kicked Out Of CourtEyewitness News discovered a man that judges say was pretending to be a lawyer and has been working on real cases inside the Orange County courthouse for months.
Simple question, easy to answer. Personally I have absolutely zero doubt that we sent men to the Moon and brought them back safely. None.
Evil mother pretended infant son was sick to claim £130,000 in benefits An evil mother claimed £130,000 in benefits by pretending her infant son was sick, giving him unnecessary medication and allowing him to have surgery.
Lottery Hoax Causes Riot at Ohio Coat StoreLinda Brown was arrested Tuesday after an hours-long shopping spree that began when she hired a stretch Hummer limousine to drop her off at a Burlington Coat Factory store, police Sgt. Lt. Michael Deakins said.
Cat registered as hypnotherapist The regulation of hypnotherapists in the UK is so lax that even a cat can become accredited, the BBC has found. Chris Jackson, presenter of Inside Out in the North East and Cumbria, registered pet George with three industry bodies.
There are a lot of controversies in school and in the general public about Creationism versus Evolution. It seems to me that, if you believe in creationism then then you are bound by the story of Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden.
Egypt anger over virginity fakingA leading Egyptian scholar has demanded that people caught importing a female virginity-faking device into the country should face the death penalty.
France floats law requiring Photoshopped images carry a warningEver look at a picture of a model and think, "Man, those lips can't be real. That skin can't be that smooth." Of course you have. That's because they aren't. And it can't.
Americans for Limited Goverment Falsifies Email to Defame NBC ProducerNBC News president Steve Capus fired back at Americans for Limited Government Friday, after the conservative group published an email allegedly from NBC producer Jane Stone to its director of media outreach Alex Rosenwald, with one line: "Bite me Jew Boy."
Thailand: Fakery, enshrinedIt turns out the phony Ferrari, that tour de force of fakery whipped up recently in a Thai backstreet garage (with a Subaru engine, alas), isn't here. But there's a counterfeit Yamaha scooter in mint condition propped up on its stand.
Has Osama Bin Laden been dead for seven years - and are the U.S. and Britain covering it up to continue war on terror?Facts about questioning Osama bin Laden's condition as being alive or deceased, for those who think.
Woman Accused In Theme Park Ticket Scam Prosecutors and the San Diego County Sheriff's Department accused a woman of using the Internet to her advantage all summer by duping people into buying fake theme park tickets.
Fraud by the bookMatthew Cox wooed women and wrangled millions from victims. When it comes to pulling off the ultimate con, this guy wrote the book -- literally
Proof That Man Landed on the Moon"NASA's newly launched Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has snapped images of hardware left on the moon by the Apollo astronauts, striking a blow against conspiracy theories that the landings were a hoax
Hamid Karzai faces claims of fake polling | The AustralianAFGHANS loyal to President Hamid Karzai set up hundreds of fake polling sites where no one voted but hundreds of thousands of ballots were still recorded for the President in last month's election, reports said yesterday.
Fake Afghan Poll Sites Favored Karzai, Officials Assert Supporters of President Karzai set up hundreds of fictitious polling sites . . . according to senior Western and Afghan officials here.
Fake nurse examines students at Mid-South high school A Mid-South high school is trying to determine how a fake nurse was allowed to examine more than 90 students.
RTL creates Michael Jackson video clip hoaxA hoax video make to look as if Michael Jackson was emerging from a coroner's van was an experiment aimed at showing how quickly misinformation and conspiracy theories can race across the Internet created for their show Explosiv, German broadcaster RTL said Tuesday.
Michael Jackson hoax was 'experiment,' broadcaster says -A hoax video purporting to show Michael Jackson hopping out of a coroner's van alive was produced by a German television station as an experiment, the broadcaster told CNN Monday.
'Moon Rock' in Museum Supposedly Brought Back by U.S. Astronauts Is Just Petrified WoodIt's not green cheese, but it might as well be. The Dutch national museum said Thursday that one of its prized possessions, a rock supposedly brought back from the moon by U.S. astronauts, is just a piece of petrified wood.
Here's the Bomb: Lockerbie Bomber not Sick?JUSTICE secretary Kenny MacAskill was last night under pressure to reveal more details of the medical evidence that led to the release of the Lockerbie bomber, after it emerged that only one doctor was willing to say Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi had lessthan three months to l …
Defamation Conspiracy Leads to Judgment Against Molestation Victim - washingtonpost.comMan Lives 2nd Nightmare as His Molester Fakes Lawsuit D.C. Judge Is Duped in Defamation Conspiracy Against Ohio Victim
Coach Dean Richards banned over fake blood ruseLEADING English rugby union coach Dean Richards has been banned from all coaching for three years in the final allout from the infamous fake blood case. A European Rugby Cup disciplinary committee in Glasgow banned frmer Harlequins director of rugby Richards after a long investi …
Teens Fake Abductions, Police Field Real 911 Calls Frantic Northland neighbors rushed to call 911 Monday afternoon after they said they saw a group in masks push a teenager into a trunk at gunpoint. But when the cops caught up with the apparent bad guys, they let them go.
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