BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — (KBAK/FOX58) Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) users in Kern County have fallen victim to a skimmer scam, losing a staggering $2.5 million in taxpayer funds. The Kern County ...

As EBT fraud incidents rise, authorities are taking measures to educate users and resolve account discrepancies.

Use precise geolocation data and actively scan device characteristics for identification. This is done to store and access ...

Ex-Massachusetts senator convicted of fraud shouldn’t get a lesser sentence just because he’s the ‘breadwinner’ for his family: Feds ...

The Kern County District Attorney’s Office is issuing a warning to criminals involved in Electronic Benefit Transfer, or EBT, fraud, which has cost the county hundreds of thousands of dollars each ...

Every single penny seized from disabled people, and millions of other benefit claimants will be going towards massively ...

Fake ID Documents -- Fraudsters can use Gen AI to create convincing fake ID documents -- such as driver's licenses or professional credentials -- that might also incorporate AI-generated images. They ...

A federal judge sentenced a Greenwood, Indiana, man Wednesday to a lengthy prison term for what prosecutors described as a ...

CBS 6 spoke with a Richmond mother whose Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits were stolen over the weekend.

PIN Those benefits were reimbursed before December 20th of last year. The USDA says SNAP benefits stolen on or after Dec. 21, ...

Both Cooper and Garner pled guilty on Jan. 30 to conspiracy to commit wire fraud. They are scheduled to be sentenced on June ...

Two siblings from Forrest County pled guilty to conspiring with each other to fraudulently obtain unemployment insurance benefits related to the COVID-19 ...