A man was jailed for six months by Brighton magistrates for claiming benefits while he was working - or working when he should have been claiming benefits. It isn't absolutely clear which. Joseph Egg 47, of Rottingtooth Drive in the city was convi...
Three MPs accused last week of multiple offences under the 1968 Theft Act, have vowed to use an obscure Law passed by William the Deceitful in 1432 to avoid a lengthy prison Sentence. One of the three broke down in crocodile tears outside his 15 b...
An elderly man has been sued by a disgruntled customer of eBay after purchasing the man's identity from the web site. The seller, Mr T.J. McCorkle of Louisburg, NC has told investigators from eBay that he had done nothing wrong. "If anything" Mr. Mc...
Gullible Gulch, Texas - In a move not matched in the history of gullibility since fresh off the boat Sven Svenderson bought the Brooklyn Bridge in 1922, a 67 year old man has lost his ticket to a convenient store clerk. The real winner, apparently...
Complaints have been coming in from UK and US citizens who are part way through complex internet transactions with Nigerian bank officials. In each case they are attempting to help bring millions of dollars out of Africa by supplying their secret pe...
A local man who went around town acting like he was somehow better than everyone else on his street has been uncovered as being a scummy bastard. Paddy Wagon - who went by the pseudonym 'Sir Archibald Windslow Leech Forsythe III - left the...
Inhabitants of London were somewhat surprised today, when the entire Fraud Squad were suddenly sucked into a vortex in the space-time continuum, and blasted millions of miles away into the Duck's Egg Nebula. Detective Inspector Morose of the Squad...
In the last hour millions of people have become disenchanted with the very fabric of their existence due to shocking revelations by God himself. Speaking via his preferred deity-human conduit, former US President George W. Bush, God admitted that...
Claims by British MPs that they have been tortured by recent exposure of their expenses details has been raised with the International Court of Human Rights. The MPs concerned have said that they were forced to explain their expenses by the applicat...
Guantanamo Bay/ Federal Economic Detainee News - A shaken Bernie Madoff, FINALLY placed in Federal Custody, was removed to isolation in this Cuban Federal Penal Colony after sexual threats from Bankrupt Inmates said they were planning to have him Stu...
Parasite Scientists recently identified a whole new sub-species of creature now recognized as having a large presence in our world. The sub species is identified as being a mollusk-like, slimy, backbone-less parasite that has been given the nam...
(New York-NY) Chris Rock said, I paraphrase, "Every time I watch the news, and I see a crime being committed, I say 'Please don't let it be a brother. Please don't let it be a brother' Then, I see the footage. Damn." I feel the same way as a Jew with Bernie Madoff. Is it my age, the downside of 50? My parents weren't Survivors, but they knew Survivors. Pogrom fear? One of the first things I di...
Saying he was "deeply sorry and ashamed, Snort! Ahem." Bernard Madoff pleaded guilty Thursday to pulling off perhaps the biggest swindle in Wall Street history and was immediately led off to jail in handcuffs to the applause of his seething victims i...
Federal investigatory sources indicate a Texas tycoon accused of an $8 billion investment fraud may have swindled the New York inventor of an alleged $50 billion Ponzi scheme. The sources say Allen Stanford-accused by the feds of running a "mass...
People are "going bananas", say the makers, for a new boardgame called "Ponzi!", released last week. In the game, players start with 3 houses and £3million each, then take as much money as possible plus bonus on the first "year" (circuit of board...
Chancellor Alastair Darling has announced that the government is limiting bonuses to branch managers of the Royal Bank of Scotland to £350 million each. And that bonuses would no longer be paid in backhanders and foreign holidays with Swiss financier...
A 36 year old man from Eastbourne has appeared before the local Magistrates court charged with fraudulently misrepresenting Prime Minister Gordon Brown. The individual was arrested two weeks ago when Police discovered he had been attempting to pass h...
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