scam artist

According to a criminal complaint, Charles Barry presented himself as an MTA employee in an effort to dupe a tourist, whom he sold a dud MetroCard for $ 32 — just one of his many alleged scam victims

The man who is a serial subway scammer bragged to reporters about the bail reform that allowed him back on the streets to target more tourists, scamming them into buying bogus MetroCards as he posed as an MTA employee. NBC New York’s Gilma Avalos reports.

New Jersey authorities say a Jersey Shore psychic and her son cheated an elderly man out of more than $147,000 for treatment they said would rid him of evil spirits.

A bill now under consideration in the New York Legislature would give banks the ability to temporarily freeze the accounts of older adults when they notice activity uncharacteristic of spending habits.

A Utica, New York, man faces federal wire fraud charges in connection with a scheme to trick elderly people across the U.S. into sending him thousands of dollars in “bail” money after falsely claiming their relatives had been arrested, prosecutors said.

A man who posed as a U.S. Army veteran and claimed to have two doctorates from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has been sentenced to seven to 14 years in prison. A judge in New York City sentenced Jeremy Wilson on Monday. Prosecutors say Wilson pretended to be a wounded veteran in order to lease a luxury car and a…