A former California business executive has been sentenced to two months in prison for paying $250,000 to get his son into the University of Southern California as a fake volleyball recruit. Jeffrey Bizzack, of Solana Beach, California, was sentenced in Boston’s federal court Wednesday. The 59-year-old pleaded guilty in July to a single count of fraud and conspiracy.

New Hampshire Attorney General Gordon MacDonald is telling residents to be aware of scammers targeting personal information through the use of popular phone-based word games, such as Words with Friends. The game’s app is downloaded for players to take turns building words in a crossword-style fashion, similar to Scrabble.

A business executive and his wife, a former journalist, were each sentenced to a month in prison Tuesday for paying $125,000 to rig their daughter’s college entrance exams in a scandal involving dozens of wealthy and sometimes famous parents. Gregory and Marcia Abbott, of New York and Colorado, were sentenced in Boston’s federal court after pleading guilty to a single...

The former chairman of a global law firm was sentenced Thursday to one month in prison for paying $75,000 to rig his daughter’s ACT exam. Gordon Caplan, 53, of Greenwich, Connecticut, pleaded guilty in May to a single count of fraud and conspiracy in a deal with prosecutors. He is the fourth parent to be sentenced in a sweeping college...

Actress Felicity Huffman will find out if she will spend any time in prison for her involvement in the college admission scandal during her sentencing.

Actress Lori Loughlin and her fashion designer husband Mossimo Giannulli are due back in Boston federal court to discuss potential conflicts of interest regarding their lawyers.

AT&T said this week that it will soon block spam calls or alert customers of suspected spammers. The blocking will first activate for new lines and will then be applied to all existing accounts, the carrier said on Tuesday. The feature will be on by default but can be turned off by users who don’t want it, per rules set...

The U.S. Marshals Service for Vermont is warning residents about a phone scam in which imposters posing as marshals try to collect fines. Nationally the service says it’s received hundreds of calls from people asking them why they are seeking money from them.

Bank wire transfers are fast and final, making them an appealing target for scammers. A Harvard University faculty member learned that the hard way. Christine Lu recently fell victim to a scam and lost her entire life savings.

A Harvard faculty member lost her entire life savings in a wire fraud scam.

Actress Felicity Huffman has pleaded guilty to paying $15,000 to rig her daughter’s SAT score in the college admissions scheme. The 56-year-old actress entered the plea Monday to a charge of conspiracy to commit mail fraud and honest services mail fraud.

The FCC on Friday warned of a surge in what it calls the “One Ring” or “Wangiri” scam, a series of robocalls from Africa that can ring you up for a huge phone toll bill.

“Desperate Housewives” star Felicity Huffman is expected to plead guilty May 13 to charges that she took part in a sweeping college admissions cheating scam. Huffman had been scheduled to enter her plea in Boston federal court on May 21. But a judge agreed Monday to move up the hearing because the lead prosecutor will be out of town. Also...

Lawyers formally entered not guilty pleas Monday in Boston’s federal court on behalf of “Full House” actress Lori Loughlin; her husband, Mossimo Giannulli; and more than a dozen other parents in the college admission scam dubbed “Operation Varsity Blues.” On the same day, a judge moved actress Felicity Huffman’s case to May 21 where she is expected to formally...

New Hampshire Attorney General Gordon MacDonald is urging residents to take added precautions to protect themselves from Internal Revenue Service-related scams this tax season. MacDonald’s office received 471 reports related to IRS scams in 2017. That number more than doubled in 2018 to 984 reports.

A Massachusetts cab driver is being praised by police for helping an 87-year-old woman from being taken by a classic scam. Richard Spencer, who drives for Yellow Cab of Quincy, tells The Patriot Ledger he sensed something was wrong when the woman he was driving Wednesday told him she was going to Walmart to purchase thousands of dollars in gift...

Scammers have been posing as police officers in on the phone, demanding goods in exchange for the “bail” of a loved one and police in Burlington, Vermont, say the thieves were able to dupe one couple. Burlington police said the scammer requested $500 from the couple in the form of gift cards. They said a woman was on the phone...

Police in Duxbury, Massachusetts are warning residents of a scam that targets parishioners via email. Officials received reports of a person using a fake church email address in an effort to receive money or gift cards. The scammer poses as the Rev. Mally Lloyd of the town’s St. John the Evangelist Church and demands goods that would go towards fighting...