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Last week, President Obama signed an executive order to protect veterans, soldiers and their families from being swindled and hoodwinked by for-profit schools. Check out some of these shady behaviors, and you'll understand what set Obama off.

This is International Fraud Awareness Week, when various companies and nonprofit organizations work to educate people about how to avoid becoming victims of financial fraud. And we need the help: Last year, American consumers lost more than $1.7 billion to financial scams.

A major public initiative to crack down on investment fraud by training thousands of doctors to spot older patients who may be particularly vulnerable, and then refer them to securities regulators and social workers, is going national after a successful pilot run in Texas. The unprecedented...

In what should come as a shock to no one, accused swindler Allen Stanford pleaded not guilty to fraud charges in Texas yesterday. The U.S. Magistrate judge who decided Stanford's fate determined that a $100,000 cash deposit and a plan to pay $500,000 was enough for bail (although some outlets are...

By age 99, you'd think he would have learned better. Zhou Zhiping, 99, is on trial in Beijing and accused of swindling $109,700 from an American, making him the oldest criminal defendant ever in the city, according to a Reuters story. soKe.flace('walletpop-crime_stories', '618',...