Patricia Calhoun of Twin Falls, Idaho, is a very generous woman. Particularly with my phone number. Last Wednesday, my direct line at Westword started ringing before eight in the morning, and it ...

For anyone selling pricey merchandise on the Internet, beware greetings from Nigeria. After years of flooding mailboxes, fax machines and e-mail accounts with artfully written letters promising ...

BENTON, Ill. – A Nigerian national appeared in federal court on Thursday to be sentenced for running romance scams in Illinois and other parts of the country, defrauding at least a dozen people of ...

When Dean Cameron got an e-mail from a Nigerian con artist, the actor didn't immediately trash the forwarded scam letter. Instead, Cameron turned the tables on the con man, wrote him back and turned ...

Suspected members of the Nigerian mafia sit in the courtroom at the start of their trial. They are believed to be representatives of the Nigerian "Black Axe" brotherhood. Investigators allege that ...

First, I must solicit your strictest confidence in this transaction,this is by virtue of its nature as being utterly confidential and top secret as you were introduced to us in confidence through the ...

Passengers at San Francisco International Airport watched federal agents move in on a man at the boarding gate. Prosecutors say he was not just another traveler but the architect of a years‑long ...

A.M. Best Company, Inc. An insurance agent who worked for a North Dakota mutual insurance company has been sentenced by a federal judge on three counts of wire fraud. "We learned about Henning's fraud ...

WASHINGTON - Americans lost a record amount of money to Internet fraud last year, with the infamous Nigerian scam nabbing the largest sums from individuals, according to new federal crime statistics.