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VW is a flagship German company representing the highest standard of reliability. Volkswagen has been synonymous with quality and high standards for at least the last 25 years. However, U.S. regulators recently discovered that the auto giant had been installing special software in its supposedly clean-diesel…

At the Burger King drive through window in Rochester, N.H., Janelle Jones ordered a sandwich and drink. When she opened the bag there was no sandwich inside. Instead there was $2,631, mostly inside bank deposit bags. After talking with her husband Matthew, and thinking about it for a while, the pair…

Police arrested Jeff Waters when he tried to cash a $368 billion check. When questioned by police Waters claimed he bought the check for $100 from a man named Tito. “Blame Tito,” Waters told police. “I’m as innocent as a schoolgirl.” It is hard to tell which delusion Jeff Waters had was the most serious.…

With opportunities for the public to comment on the quality of public services through social media and feedback apps, restaurants become accountable to the general public. They also can be victims of undeserved bad reviews. While it is usually impossible to prove a bad review is not deserved, the restaurant…

Ohio police say a middle school student apparently took up to $25,000 from his grandfather and gave $100 bills to classmates. They say several thousand dollars were passed out before they discovered what was happening. Investigators were able to recover up to $7,000, but said some of the money had been…

Just before Christmas in 2015, Stephen Roseman posted a picture on Facebook of a dog with the caption "badly burned and disfigured trying to save his family from a house fire. One like=one prayer, one share=ten prayers." Thousands of users responded. The good news is that the dog is OK, but it was not…

There remains a warm place in our hearts for truth. NBC Anchor Brian Williams has lost his position with NBC’s Nightly News. NBC relieved Williams when his viewers discovered that he was not truthful in personal anecdotes he told on air about adventures in Iraq and other stories. –--Jim L. Wilson and…

It started simply for Danielle Shea, a Quinnipiac University student. When her tuition money from her parents arrived, she kept the money but dropped out of school. Her scheme worked until it was time for graduation. To keep her parents from discovering her dishonesty, she went a step further. She called…

Pennsylvania police say a man was arrested and charged with passing counterfeit money after he tried to use phony $20 bills to purchase items at a garage sale. They say the reason 40-year-old Gregory Douglas was caught was that he tried to give the money to the wrong person. The woman running the sale,…

A routine audit of police cold cases led to the discovery of a Canadian man who had been missing for nearly 4 decades and had started a new life in Oklahoma. Police in Ontario, Canada said that 32-year-old Ronald Stan was reported missing after a barn fire in 1977. Canadian courts declared Stan dead…

I have a couple of riddles for you today. If someone tells you that they’re telling you the truth, should you believe them? Not necessarily, a liar wouldn’t mind lying straight to your face, while claiming to be truthful. Then if someone tells you they are lying, should you believe them? Of course, it…

With the help of a user, Wikipedia recently deleted a story about the “Bicholim Conflict” because it turned out the story was a hoax. For nearly five years, the site had posted an article describing the conflict as a year-long war between Portugal and the Indian Marath Empire which took place in 1640.…

Did you know that among the eight leading world democracies only Switzerland has a better tax compliance rate than the United States, and that is only by one tenth of one percent? In reporting The Lying Game, as Time magazine calls it, they credit the religiosity of Americans as the reason our cheating…

We are told in the Bible that we should be honest in our dealings with others. Yet when you eat fish at restaurants these days you can never be sure of what you are getting. The group, Oceana tested tuna sold at grocery stores and restaurants in the U.S. and discovered that nearly 60% is not tuna but…

“Five years after the name Bernie Madoff became synonymous with extravagant fraud, the only thing that makes him unique is the size of his swindle,” according to Al Lewis of Marketwatch.com, Ponzi schemes are discovered all the time. The scam is classic: “Lure investors with promises of solid returns…

We may think we are getting away with something, but there is no use trying to hide our sin. Joel Peralta discovered that while pitching for the Tampa Bay Rays against his former team, the Washington Nationals. The umpires, alerted by Nationals manager Davey Johnson, discovered pine tar in Peralta’s…

A survey by CareerBuildercom found that nearly a third of workers called in sick to their employer to get a day off. One in six ditched work just to catch up on sleep. Some of the more creative fabrications include a botched hair-dye job, a grandmother who was being exhumed for a police investigation,…

Dan Ariely, who teaches behavioral economics at Duke University says that all of us “Cheat up to the level that allows us to retain our self images as reasonably honest individuals.” A team of researchers determined “We want to see ourselves as honorable, but we also want to benefit from cheating.” In…

Star linebacker Manti Te'o relationship with a former Stanford student named Lennay Kekua turned out to be a hoax! She never existed! A relationship we heard about for the last year is mere fiction. Manti had us all caught up in the drama of his alleged girlfriends battle with leukemia, and finally her…

When someone says, “Enron,” what comes to your mind? With most people the very mention of the word, elicits thoughts of “scandal.” The bankrupted company remains the poster child for corrupt leadership and corporate greed to this day. Enron, a Houston, Texas based energy commodities and servicing firm…

Two of college football’s most successful coaches fell from their lofty status and perhaps damaged their life legacy. Jim Tressel lost his job at Ohio State when he failed to report knowledge of his players receiving inappropriate gifts and money. Penn State fired long time coach, Joe Paterno when he…

The economic crisis in Greece has many families doing anything they can to raise extra money. The government recently stepped in and published guidelines to help prevent citizens from being ripped off by pawnshops offering to exchange gold for cash. Authorities say many businesses are promising to pay…

With economic uncertainty growing in Europe, many observers say they fear corruption could make the economies of troubled nations more vulnerable, and could increase the time required to overcome the current problems. They note that few countries in Europe regulate lobbying of government officials, and…

Researcher in the United Kingdom say they are developing new technology that could help interviewers detect when a person is lying. The technology, developed at the University of Bradford uses a thermal imaging camera to detect variations in facial temperature in response to questioning. The thermal…

Applications for cell phones serve many purposes. Now, apps can help a user avoid an unwanted conversation, or get out of a bad date. A survey by the Pew research group found that 13 percent of cell phone users reported deflecting awkward conversations by faking phone calls. A new app called, Fake-a…