fraud

When someone offers you, a complete stranger, a cut of their lottery winnings if you can "help out with identification" it's a scam. A Batavia man knows that now.

Dennis Horton, Director of the Rockford Regional Office of the Better Business Bureau (BBB) joined us this morning to answer some frequent questions they receive at the BBB.

Dennis Horton, Executive Director of the Rockford Regional Office of the Better Business Bureau (BBB), has got some great info to keep you from being a scam statistic.

An Illinois woman is suing Junior Mints for fraud.

The #1 scam reported to the Better Business Bureau (BBB) is online purchases. Of these reports, online pet fraud ranked number one.

For those with a keen interest in not getting taken in a scam, Rockford's Better Business Bureau is loaded with great information.

As if the quarterback history of the Chicago Bears isn't bad enough, a former starter is going to be spending some time in prison.

A Rockford man is facing several counts of federal mail fraud.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — A former Illinois Department of Public Health aide has been sentenced to eight years in prison for her part in a kickback scheme that defrauded the state of millions of dollars. Quinshaunta Golden pleaded guilty in April 2014 to bribery, theft and obstruction of justice in the kickback scheme...

CHICAGO (AP) — A federal jury has convicted two Illinois residents in a $4.5 million Medicare fraud scheme that involved billing the government for services to people who were dead. Two employees of Medicall Physicians Group in Schaumburg were each found guilty last week of one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud and related charges...