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Broward resident Susan Rizzo is heartbroken but is seeking her money back after she was scammed by a phony military officer. She is also looking to prevent other women from experiencing the pain she’s going through. “However, for somebody else to get taken like this emotionally and financially—it’s embarrassing. It’s hurtful,” Rizzo exclusively told NBC 6.  Normally, there’s not...

NBC 6 Investigator Willard Shepard has been working to find out more about the person who appears to have posed as an Army officer in order to romance a woman’s money away.

A man posed as an admirer, using the crisis in Afghanistan in an effort to gain a South Florida woman’s trust. But she’d end up losing tens of thousands of dollars instead. NBC 6’s Willard Shepard reports

The indictment said participants in the scheme recruited more than 400 people to either claim they had fallen where no accident occurred or to deliberately fall at NYC locations where they could claim there were cracks in concrete sidewalks, potholes or unsecured cellar doors.

Most of us look at the Surfside memorial wall and see only heartbreak, grief, and sadness. Scammers look at the pictures and names on the fence and see opportunity.

Officials say scammers took advantage of the Surfside tragedy to profit. NBC 6’s Ari Odzer reports

NBC 6’s Claudia DoCampo spoke with the victim who lost over $25,000 worth of sentimental possessions during the scam.

A South Florida single mother spent her life savings to put down a deposit for a condo. But the money ended up in the wrong hands.

A South Florida single mother with just hours left before she must move from a condo she just spent her life savings to own—but the money ended up in the wrong hands. NBC 6’s Willard Shepard reports

NBC 6’s Johnny Archer is in Hialeah with how the woman carried out the scheme.

A scammer trying to sell vacant lots. NBC 6 investigates the scheme and what police are doing to track those behind it.

In response to an uptick in property fraud, the Broward County Property Appraiser’s Office launched Owner Alert, a system designed to protect property owners from scams.

Over the past 40 years, Alfred Thomas said he’s worked many jobs at a public school, a domestic violence shelter, and at a bank.  “Money was alright. But it just wasn’t enough to survive,” Thomas said.  It wasn’t until Thomas got into real estate, he said, that he felt he could pass wealth down to his children and grandchildren. ...

Florida’s Attorney General is sharing a strong warning for those who are looking for love online.

Florida’s Attorney General issued a warning to be wary of scams while online dating. NBC 6’s Alyssa Hyman reports

If something sounds too good to be true, it often is, and an Aldi offer for free groceries that’s been making the rounds on Facebook this week is, in fact, a scam.

Residents across the United States are finding packages of seeds mailed to them from China in what is believed to be part of a scam to skew online shopping algorithms.

A couple helped run an international romance scam that used bogus profiles on dating websites to woo dozens of victims into giving up more than $6 million, federal prosecutors said. Martins Friday Inalegwu and Steincy Mathieu, both of Maple Shade, New Jersey, were charged Tuesday with conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud. Inalegwu, 31, made his initial court appearance…

A former California business executive has been sentenced to two months in prison for paying $250,000 to get his son into the University of Southern California as a fake volleyball recruit. Jeffrey Bizzack, of Solana Beach, California, was sentenced in Boston’s federal court Wednesday. The 59-year-old pleaded guilty in July to a single count of fraud and conspiracy.

The FCC on Friday warned of a surge in what it calls the “One Ring” or “Wangiri” scam, a series of robocalls from Africa that can ring you up for a huge phone toll bill.