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Hundreds of ads on Facebook promised U.S. homeowners that they were eligible for huge state tax breaks if they installed new solar-energy panels. There was just one catch: None of it was true.

A man who said he was blinded by sports radio personality Craig Carton's fame was sentenced Thursday to nearly two years in prison for his role in a ticket scam.

The email caught the executive at a small company by surprise one morning in 2016. The company's owner, or so he thought, was requesting a money transfer to pay for supplies from a new vendor.

Authorities say a New York man has been sentenced to five years in prison for his role in scamming more than $2.5 million from a national home improvement retailer.

An upstate New York man has been sentenced to three years in prison and ordered to pay back more than $100,000 he bilked out of people in a vacation home rental scam.

Three Florida businessmen have pleaded guilty to conspiring to scam Xerox out of $25 million worth of toner for printers sold by the company.

Police say three central New York residents posed as relatives of a 6-year-old cancer patient and a church representative to scam people for money.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is warning New Yorkers about a voting registration scam reported in two upstate counties.

State police are warning the general public about scams targeting older people.

Authorities say a New York charity that claimed to be raising money for disabled veterans sold tickets for a raffle that never happened.