A Tennessee man who pretended to be a contractor was recently sentenced to 10 years of jail time for defrauding seven families over two years, reported Kelsey Gibbs of News Channel 5 Nashville.

The Marquette County Sheriff’s Office is looking for a man who they say tried to cash a fraudulent check on Jan. 25 — and may be in southeast Wisconsin, according to FOX6 Milwaukee.

The Internal Revenue Service has slowed the payment of refunds to employers for the Employee Retention Credit as the agency struggles to combat what it says are fraudulent and overstated claims for the credit.

Two Florida contractors were arrested in June for compensation fraud and are accused of underreporting their payroll so they would not have to pay for insurance premiums and fees, according to Chris Gothner of Local 10 News in Florida.

Scammers typically come out in numbers after a natural disaster, looking to capitalize on the tragedy and make some money from unsuspecting victims, according to C.A. Bridges and Laura Finaldi of the Herald-Tribune.

If a worker comes to your door and tells you he has leftover materials from a neighbor’s project and can give you a deal on building a deck or replacing windows, do you let him do work for you?

The state of Minnesota has charged a Princeton, Minnesota, construction firm with workers’ compensation fraud after the firm claimed it had no employees for two years, in a piece reported by Dee DePass of the Star Tribune.

Massachusetts police arrested three men last month for a home improvement fraud involving thousands of dollars, in a story by Ken Paiva of the Fall River Reporter.

Authorities arrested a Wisconsin contractor accused of defrauding dozens of customers for thousands of dollars, according to Logan Rude of Channel 3000.