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Gold Scammer Gets 15 Years Behind Bars Courthouse News Service By DAVID LEE (CN) - A Houston man was sentenced Wednesday to 15 years in federal prison for scamming gold buyers out of $400000 on the Internet. James Maceo Ramey, 64, was sentenced by US District Judge Keith Ellison on 25 counts of bankruptcy fraud ... See all stories on this topic »

Shanghai police to begin hunting down Canadian scammer Ryan Fedoruk Shanghaiist Shanghai police have begun investigating the case of Ryan Fedoruk, the Canadian scammer and fake landlord who sublet 30 apartments to 80 tenants before fleeing with RMB300,000, after Eva Gao, the local lawyer representing the victims, ... See all stories on this topic » Shanghaiist

Beware of Croton Chimney Sweep Scammers Patch.com The scammers use the company name All Seasons Chimney. They do a cleaning and then fabricate chimney problems. Next, they give victims an inflated quote to fix the fake problem—then they negotiate down—and then take off with the payment. ... See all stories on this topic »

Providence School Warns Of Child Scammer WLNE-TV (ABC6) A middle school student is going door to door in Providence with a sob story about a family member with terrible health problems. The whole thing is made up, and now police and school officials are trying to get to the bottom of it. ... See all stories on this topic »

Public safety summary Savannah Morning News Savannah-Chatham police say a scammer is trying to pass off broken MacBook and Dell computers, packaged like this, as new. By Savannah Morning News Savannah-Chatham police are asking for the public's help in solving two recent robberies. ... See all stories on this topic »

Petraeus: Military families can be financial targets Great Falls Tribune Rice, who is executive director of NeighborWorks Montana, told the story of one serviceman who, faced with foreclosure, was told by an online scammer that if he paid the scammer $1000 a month and stopped making his mortgage payments, the scammer would ... See all stories on this topic »

Top 10 list of common scams unveiled by BBB Peace Arch News A scammer claims to be phoning from Microsoft about a problem with the person's computer. In order to "fix" it, the computer owner is told to download a program. The catch: the owner has downloaded damaging spyware. QUICK TIP: Treat all unsolicited ... See all stories on this topic »

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