If you've received a letter or message about a multi-million-dollar inheritance from a relative you didn't know about, it's ...

I received two letters a few years ago that I briefly thought might be worthy of a column warning about the scam involved, but decided it couldn’t be a serious problem and passed. A recent press ...

Pennsylvania officials are warning of an email scam requesting recipients send money to receive a fake inheritance from a distant relative. Officials said the scammers, posing as state employees, are ...

MIAMI, Fla. (CBS12) — A Nigerian national pleaded guilty in a Miami courtroom for orchestrating a transnational inheritance fraud scheme that defrauded over 400 elderly and vulnerable Americans out of ...

A 36-year-old Nigerian, Okezie Bonaventure Ogbata, has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud in connection with a transnational inheritance scam that defrauded over 400 victims, ...

The Iowa Insurance Division (IID) is warning Iowans about inheritance scams that increase during the holiday season.

A federal grand jury in Columbia has indicted two Aiken men in an alleged $8 million inheritance fraud scheme that attempted to divert the assets of an 88-year-widow’s estate to themselves. The ...

MIAMI — A woman in South Florida received a personalized letter from a bank in Spain claiming she had received an inheritance from a late relative. When the woman responded, the bank representative ...

As Iowans prepare to celebrate the holidays with family and friends, state officials are warning that scammers do not take ...