Fraud

The Alabama Department of Human Resources is continuing to receive an increased number of fraud reports throughout the state. The agency stresses it's working to process requests for replacement of SNAP benefits stolen from households impacted by EBT card skimming, cloning and similar fraud.

A report from the Federal Trade Commission says Alabamians lost over $50,000,000 to fraudsters in 2022. Newly released data says the FTC received over 22,000 fraud reports from consumers in Alabama in 2022.

The former head of the city of Dothan’s tourism bureau is facing federal jail time for bank fraud. The case was connected to a music festival in 2018 in Iowa.

Six people from Alabama, including two former superintendents, were accused of conspiracy, fraud and identity theft on Tuesday. Former Athens school…

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A one-time Alabama doctor has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for illegally prescribing dangerous medications to patients.…

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A doctor and a pharmacist from Alabama have been sentenced to prison in what federal prosecutors describe as a prescription drug…

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Authorities say a man is charged with stealing from a memorial fund that was established to help the family of an Alabama police…

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Federal authorities say a south Alabama doctor has become the 30th person charged in what they describe as a fraud scheme…

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A former clinic worker in Alabama has pleaded guilty for her participation in a scheme authorities say defrauded the state’s…

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A one-time west Alabama sheriff is due in court to find out whether he must go to federal prison for fraud.A sentencing hearing is…