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Video conferencing has become a popular way for therapists to reach patients, but opportunities for exploitation, especially by those with sketchy credentials, are rife.

Spend the night at a hotel and get a call from the front desk and it could turn out to be a con artist trying to steal your credit card number.

Texas authorities are searching for a man who they say faked having terminal cancer so he could pocket the proceeds of a charity event named in his honor, MyFoxAustin.com reported.

Schemes that ask for money to set up clients in jobs that never materialize are proliferating, watchdogs say.One in a series of occasional reports about the U.S. unemployment crisis.