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Fraudsters are using social media to spam, steal information, spread propaganda and execute social-engineering campaigns.

Every year, millions of American consumers -nearly 7% of the population- are victims of scams and fraud. In 2017, the number of fraud victims in the US reached 16.7 million, with $16.8 billion lost.

Five former officials, including an ex-president's son, are accused of printing surplus bank notes worth $16.3m.

Public disapproval exceeds 50% for first time as prosecutors raid schools

A multiyear federal investigation involving alleged misuse of millions of dollars designated for employee training has expanded to General Motors.

Brazil seems to be engaged in inverting Karl Marx's famous dictum about history repeating itself, first as tragedy then as farce.

When the FBI came knocking on District of Columbia Councilman Jack Evans' door in June, it set off an earthquake in local politics and business.

The phenomenon of payments fraud is not a modern one - far from it.

A Los Angeles man has agreed to plead guilty to a $25 million money-laundering operation, facilitated in part by a cryptocurrency exchange and a bitcoin ATM he operated.

A federal grand jury indictment unsealed Thursday charged 80 people, most of whom are Nigerian nationals, with participating in a massive conspiracy to steal millions of dollars through a variety of fraud schemes and launder the funds through a Los Angeles-based money laundering network, the Department of Justice announced.

Shocked by the scale of a $200 billion Euros ($221 billion) money-laundering scandal involving Denmark's Danske Bank, the European Commission put together a punchy "blacklist" of allegedly dodgy jurisdictions in February, naming four US overseas territories and Saudi Arabia.

With several ex-presidents in jail and a decades-long history of corruption plaguing the highest ranks of their government, the Peruvian Catholic bishops have decided to fight back at the grassroots, establishing a university course to educate students on the causes of corruption, and how to stop it.

Deutsche Bank (DBKGn.DE) has agreed to pay more than $16 million to settle charges that it violated U.S. corruption laws by hiring relatives of foreign government officials in order to win or retain business, the U.S. regulator said in a statement.

Around the world, corruption poses a major threat, contributing to many of the crises that have plagued economies and democracies over the past decade.

A researcher at the University of Kansas was indicted Wednesday on federal charges of hiding the fact that he was working full time for a Chinese university while doing research at KU funded by the U.S. government.

Federal authorities arrested the former president of the Massachusetts State Police union Wednesday, alleging that he pocketed tens of thousands of dollars through embezzling cash and accepting kickback payments from a lobbyist since 2012.

Though food fraud is rampant, actual prosecutions are not.

A former Army civilian employee stole thousands of troops' personal information and collected millions of dollars in fraudulent military benefits as part of an international identity theft ring, according to a new federal indictment released on Wednesday.

Investigators arrest Palaniappan Chidambaram after a dramatic raid on his New Delhi home.

News reports have pointed to serious wrongdoing at the heart of the anti-corruption inquiry that has shaken many Latin American countries.