ROCHE EXPLAINS HOW IT WORKS. I HEARD FROM VIEWERS OVER THE WEEKEND WHO BELIEVE THEY WERE WITH A WHOLE NEW SCAM. BUT THE INHERITANCE SCAM THAT’S BEEN AROUND YEARS AND THE FACT THAT IT’S IN CIRCULATION, ...

I received two letters a few years ago that I briefly thought might be worthy of a column warning about the scam involved, but decided it couldn’t be a serious problem and passed. A recent press ...

NIBLEY, Cache County – Utahns are receiving messages and letters about unclaimed money from a deceased relative, or at the very least, someone who shares their last name. But it's an inheritance scam ...

Pennsylvania officials are warning of an email scam requesting recipients send money to receive a fake inheritance from a distant relative. Officials said the scammers, posing as state employees, are ...

JONES COUNTY, Miss. (WDAM) - The Jones County Sheriff’s Department has received word of an elaborate scam involving a reported $4.6 million inheritance from a supposed deceased individual from ...

OSWEGO, IL — Two men, including an Oswego resident, have been sentenced to federal prison for conducting online inheritance and romance scams, according to a release from the U.S. Attorney's Office, ...

A 36-year-old Nigerian, Okezie Bonaventure Ogbata, has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud in connection with a transnational inheritance scam that defrauded over 400 victims, ...

GRAND FORKS — The North Dakota Attorney General's Office has received more than a dozen reports from residents who recently received scam letters in the mail. Parrell Grossman, director of the ...

He stands to inherit a lengthy sentence. A Virginia man has admitted conning a retired bricklayer, an elderly blind man and others out of more than $630,000 in an inheritance scam where he claimed to ...

The Iowa Insurance Division (IID) is warning Iowans about inheritance scams that increase during the holiday season.

ALBANY — A former Cooperstown attorney and business owner pleaded guilty in federal court on Wednesday to his role in ripping off elderly clients, including two Capital Region philanthropists. Thomas ...