Cyber Monday is a popular day for fast online deals, but it can also be a popular day for quick scams through fraudulent websites.

Kathy Boatman: Breaking news last week featured in the Wall Street Journal and Fox News has featured the story and data released by an unknown hacker or whistleblower that appears to be obtained from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, England.

The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office on Monday arrested County Supervisor Don Stapley on suspicion of 100 fraud-related counts involving his political campaigns, taxes and his mortgage and loan businesses.

Police detectives arrested a Phoenix man Tuesday on suspicion of embezzling $117,000 from Gilbert-based Cambridge Filter Corporation.

Kent Brady, owner of Kentec Builders LLC, was indicted earlier this month by the Maricopa County Attorney's Office on three counts of fraudulent schemes in connection with taking money from customers and failing to complete construction projects.

Jeffery Z. Sayegh, of Cave Creek, and Kimberly R. Werking, of Phoenix, were indicted by the Arizona Attorney General's Office on five counts of forgery, one count of money laundering and one count of fraudulent schemes and artifices. Werking, 42, was also indicted on six counts of residential mortgage fraud, five counts of theft and one count of illegal control of an enterprise.

William Craig Miller, a Scottsdale man accused of killing five people in 2005 in Mesa, pleaded guilty on Friday to filing a fraudulent insurance claim.

County prosecutors have filed a 32-count indictment against eight people accused of conducting a fraudulent credit card ring, Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas announced Friday. The ring was broken up May 22 after a two-month investigation by the Mesa Police Department.

Reports of Arizona mortgage fraud spiked last year — mirroring a nationwide trend, as lenders scrutinized deals more closely and falling home prices unmasked shams.

Hoping to avoid a real estate crash, a state senator wants to incarcerate everyone from bankers and escrow agents to home buyers who commit mortgage fraud.

November 7, 2006

Such is human nature that some sorry souls will defraud disaster relief funds at the expense of the victims who really need the help. And so it happened with hurricanes Katrina and Rita, but what was especially dismaying about that relief effort was the amount and the extent of fraud.

A Scottsdale aeronautics business owner is appealing two federal court decisions that found him guilty of bankruptcy fraud and sentenced him to nearly three years in prison.

A Scottsdale aeronautics business owner is appealing two federal court decisions that found him guilty of bankruptcy fraud and sentenced him to nearly three years in prison.

PRESTON, England - A British man was sentenced to four years in jail Tuesday for masterminding a "phishing" fraud that stole identities and bank details from users of the eBay auction site.

A new database will help prevent people from purchasing vehicles and boats damaged during Hurricane Katrina.

A grand jury has indicted two priests on charges they stole $160,000 from the Holy Cross Parish in Mesa.

December 23, 2004

The latest wrinkle in the lawsuit involving a Mesa couple accused of defrauding investors of millions of dollars is they have obtained a "reverse mortgage" on their Leonora Street home, an attorney for the Securities and Exchange Commission said Thursday.

A Scottsdale man accused of bilking investors of $29 million in a scheme involving fraudulently obtained life insurance policies for AIDS patients, pleaded innocent Thursday.

A quick investigation by Maricopa County elections officials Friday put an end to allegations of massive voter fraud in the Scottsdale fire service issue.