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How to Report Fraud in the State of Alabama

To report fraud or a scam in the state of Alabama, start with the Attorney General, Better Business Bureau or contact the local municipal, state or Federal regulators most likely to have answers to your questions.

Office of the Attorney General

Attorney General: Troy King

Attorney General's http://www.ago.state.al.us/
Consumer Affairs Section
File a Complaint

Mailing Address:
Alabama State House
11 South Union Street, Third Floor
Montgomery, AL 36130
Phone: Consumer Hot Line - 1-800-392-5658 or 334-242-7334
Fax: 334-242-2433

Reporting Medicaid Fraud

The Medicaid Fraud Control Unit is responsible for the investigation and prosecution of allegations of fraud and abuse by healthcare providers against the Alabama Medicaid Agency. The Unit is also responsible for investigating and prosecuting allegations of abuse and neglect of residents in Medicaid-funded facilities.

Reporting Welfare Fraud

Welfare Fraud Unit is charged with investigating and prosecuting cases of welfare fraud in the State. This charge entails finding people who have misrepresented their financial circumstances to obtain benefits to which they are not entitled, investigating allegations of fraud by state employees in violation of their public trust, and prosecuting businesses for illegally trafficking in food stamps and Electronic Benefit Transfer cards. The Welfare Fraud Unit also prosecutes cases of interstate welfare theft.

The Welfare Fraud Unit was moved from the Department of Human Resources in 1995. Since that time, the cooperative effort between the Attorney General's Office and DHR has brought immediate and dramatic results for Alabama taxpayers.

Welfare Fraud Hotline: 1-800-392-8048 (toll free).

Citizens may also call the Attorney General's Office directly at 334-353-1020 to talk in more detail about fraud, EBT card abuse, agency employee theft or any other type of welfare fraud.

Alabama FBI Field Offices, Mortgage Fraud

White Collar Crime Supervisor
http://birmingham.fbi.gov/
birmingham@ic.fbi.gov
1000 18th Street North
Birmingham, AL 35203
Phone: 205-326-6166
Fax: 205-279-1590

White Collar Crime Supervisor
http://mobile.fbi.gov/
One St. Louis Centre
200 North Royal Street
Mobile, AL 36602-3930
Phone: 251-438-3674
Fax: 251-415-3235

HUD Field Office

Birmingham Field Office
Medical Forum Building
950 22nd Street North, Suite 900
Birmingham, AL 35203
Phone: 205-731-2617
Fax: 205-731-2593

HUD Regional Office
Atlanta Regional Office
40 Marietta Street
Five Points Plaza
Atlanta, GA 30303-2806
Phone: 404-331-4111
Fax: 404-730-2392

State of Alabama State Banking Department

P.O. Box 4600
Montgomery, AL 36103-4600
Phone: 334-242-3452
Fax: 334-242-3500

Nationally Chartered Credit Unions

Region III - Atlanta
http://www.ncua.gov/AboutNcua/org/Region3.htm
7000 Central Parkway
Suite 1600
Atlanta, GA 30328
Phone: 678-443-3000
Fax: 678-443-3020

State-Chartered Credit Unions
Alabama Credit Union Administration
PO Box 10324
Birmingham, AL 35202-0324
Phone: 334-271-2381
Fax: 334-409-9635

National Fair Housing Alliance

http://www.nationalfairhousing.org/
Email: nfha@nationalfairhousing.org
1212 New York Avenue, NW Ste 525
Washington, DC 2005
Phone: 202-898-1661
Fax: 202-371-9744

National Fair Housing Alliance - Local Contacts

Central Alabama Fair Housing Center
E-mail: frc98@hotmail.com
1817 W. Second Street
Montgomery, AL 36107
Phone: 334-263-4663
Fax: 334-263-4664

Fair Housing Center of Northern Alabama
Email: lila11343@aol.com
1728 - 3rd Avenue North, Suite 400-C
Birmingham, AL 35203
Phone: 205-324-0111
Fax: 205-320-0238

Mobile Fair Housing Center, Inc.
Email: mfhcinc@aol.com
600 Bel Air Blvd., #112
Mobile, AL 36606
Phone: 251-479-1532
Fax: 251-479-1488

Alabama Real Estate Commission

http://www.arec.state.al.us/
1201 Carmichael Way
Montgomery, Alabama 36106
Phone: 334-242-5544
Fax: 334-270-9118
TTY: 334-396-0064

Alabama Real Estate Appraisers Board

http://reab.state.al.us/
P.O. Box 304355
Montgomery, AL 36130-4355
Phone: 334-242-8747
Fax: 334-242-8749

Alabama Better Business Bureau (BBB)

Better Business Bureau of Central Alabama & the Wiregrass
http://centralalabama.bbb.org
Email: info@centralalabama.bbb.org
Phone: 205-558-2222
Fax: 205-558-2239
1210 South 20th Street Suite 200
Birmingham AL 35205

Better Business Bureau of North Alabama
http://northalabama.bbb.org
Email: info@northalabama.bbb.org
Phone: 256-533-1640
Fax: 256-533-1177
107 Lincoln Street NE
Huntsville AL 35801

Better Business Bureau of South Alabama
http://mobile.bbb.org
Email: info@bbbsouthal.org
Phone: 251-433-5494
Fax: 251-438-3191
3361 Cottage Hill Road, Ste. E
Mobile AL 36606

Better Business Bureau of W. Georgia-E. Alabama & S.W. Georgia
http://columbusga.bbb.org
Email: info@columbus-ga.bbb.org
Phone: 706-324-0712
Fax: 706-324-2181
500 12th Street
Columbus GA 31901-2137

Better Business Bureau Serving Cullman and Winston Counties
http://www.northalabama.bbb.org
Email: betterbusbureau@bellsouth.net
Phone: 256-775-2917
202 1st Ave. S.E., Suite I
Cullman AL 35055

Better Business Bureau Serving Lauderdale, Colbert, Franklin & Marion Counties
http://www.northalabama.bbb.org
Email: bbbshoal@hiwaay.net
Phone: 256-740-8224
Fax: 256-740-8219
205 S. Seminary St., Ste. 114
Florence AL 35630

Better Business Bureau Serving Morgan, Limestone & Lawrence Counties
http://northalabama.bbb.org
Email: djmbbb@northalabama.bbb.org
Phone: 256-355-2226
2528 Spring Ave., SW
Decatur AL 35601

Internet Crime Complaint Center
IC3's mission is to serve as a vehicle to receive, develop, and refer criminal complaints regarding the rapidly expanding arena of cyber crime. The IC3 gives the victims of cyber crime a convenient and easy-to-use reporting mechanism that alerts authorities of suspected criminal or civil violations. For law enforcement and regulatory agencies at the federal, state, local and international level, IC3 provides a central referral mechanism for complaints involving Internet related crimes.

Better Business Bureau
The Better Business Bureau (BBB) system in the U.S. extends across the nation; coast-to-coast, and in Hawaii, Alaska, and Puerto Rico. Since the founding of the first BBB in 1912, the BBB system has proven that the majority of marketplace problems can be solved fairly through the use of voluntary self-regulation and consumer education.