Friday, October 12, 2012
Callers tell local women their computers have a virus and offer to fix it — for a price.
Caledonia police are warning the public about a new computer scam. The scam involves a company calling to tell you that your computer isn’t working properly, promises to fix your computer, and charges you for the service, but they never fix it. Two Caledonia residents have fallen victim to the scam. According to Caledonia police: On Monday, a woman told police that a man named Nate Stevens, a representative from Windows Technology, called her to tell say her computer was sending out viruses, which was illegal. She was told the company would repair the computer for $180. The woman told the representative that $180 was too much, and Stevens reduced the price to $150.60. The woman then gave him the company her credit card number. Stevens told…
Saturday, March 10, 2012
Some fraud allegations were true, some were false, and some complaints will likely yield to an investigation. But there aren't enough to stop the recall from moving forward, state election official says.
The head of the agency that oversees elections in Wisconsin says there have been some instances of fraudulent signatures found on the petitions seeking to recall Republican Gov. Scott Walker from office. And with at least three outside groups going through the signatures looking for problems, Government Accountability Board Director Kevin Kennedy said his staff expects to hear even more allegations about possible fraud. While the GAB and other agencies will investigate all such complaints, it's unlikely there will be enough of them to stop the recall from moving forward, Kennedy said in a memo released Friday. "The highly polarized political atmosphere which has engendered the current recall initiatives has also generated a constant buzz …
Friday, June 24, 2011
Republican Alberta Darling and Attorney General JB Van Hollen say new Justice Department unit could recover $6 to $7 for every $1 spent.
State Sen. Alberta Darling (R-River Hills) announced Friday she is introducing legislation to create a new public assistance fraud unit within the state Department of Justice. Darling, who was joined by Attorney General JB Van Hollen at her district office in Menomonee Falls in making the announcement, said the unit is being proposed because she wants to get rid of public assistance fraud in Wisconsin. “What’s most important is that we’re going to prosecute fraud and we’re going to increase the penalties to a felony,” Darling said. “It’s going to be both providers and beneficiaries that we’ll target.” Darling said she wanted to create the program in order to root out fraud after a stories done by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel in the past …
Rosalie Murphy
4:40 pm on Sunday, October 14, 2012
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