money

Billionaire Alki David promised $1 million to anyone who managed to streak in front of President Obama. Juan Rodriguez did so in fine style – risking life and limb for the million bucks, expecting to be paid. Now it seems he won’t see a dime as David has said...

I’m no criminal mastermind or anything, so would-be criminals can take my advice with a pinch of salt – but I will say this: if you are going to rob a bank, don’t do what this guy allegedly did. Ryan Homsley got himself picked up by the FBI after...

A New Zealand couple say they could have made a fortune from a hoax email that has circulated the world and prompted people to send them money. They have been offered thousands of dollars, trips overseas, free accommodation and bombarded with generous people from all over the world, along with endless...

St. LOUIS. Steve Wilson, a worker with DoodyCalls Pet Waste Removal holds a plastic bag of money. On a recent call, he noticed money sticking out from doggie doo and after cleaning the bills, placed them in a plastic zip-locked bag and returned what turned out to be $58...

An anonymous act of charity was misinterpreted in Florida on Saturday, when the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office bomb squad blew up a box full of money. The 40-pound package was found outside the Master’s Touch International Church by a member of the congregation – it bore a simple note...

Moscow, Ohio: A man who was about to lose his $350,000 home to his bank bulldozed it before foreclosure proceedings could be completed. Terry Hoskins ran into money problems, as many are prone to do, when the IRS placed liens on his carpet store and a commercial property after...

The general manager of the Chilean mint is out of a job thanks to an embarrassing mix-up: he was at the helm when they minted a coin that misspelled “Chile”. The Telegraph reports that more than a million coins that spelled “Chile” with no Ls and two Is were...

Four German investors are facing court accused of kidnapping a financial adviser after they lost significant amounts of money in the US property market. The four people, two married couples aged between 63 and 79, and an alleged co-conspirator, are accused of kidnapping 56-year-old James Amburn and holding him...

When Noel and Margaret Foreman’s son offered to help them invest £120,000 that they had earned from the sale of a house, they thought it would be a good way to make some extra money for their retirement. Unbeknown to them, their son Neil harbored serious resentments regarding disparity...