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Four women allegedly committed insurance fraud when they staged the crashing of a rented a U-Haul truck after buying $1 million liability coverage. The plan was foiled after detectives realized that the players were Facebook friends.

Social media is changing the nature of insurance fraud investigations, as sleuths uncover connections among criminals by digging through popular websites -- and find that scammers are often their own worst enemies.

After defrauding an insurance company of millions then faking his own death in an attempt to evade authorities, a brazen insurance scammer is finally caught in Canada.

Year-over-year incidence of fraud is down 13 percentage points, but Kroll reports a shift from fraud involving physical assets and information to fraud involving internal financial documents and corruption.