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Amazon, iTunes scam nets British gang Madonna-like royalties CBS News (Credit: Screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET) (CBS News) Members of an iTunes scam ring have been busted for using stolen credit cards to purchase their own music. Full coverage of Apple at Tech Talk The 11-member gang has earned over $800000, ... See all stories on this topic »

Tax Refund Scam Costing IRS Billions Of Dollars Huffington Post The perpetrators of the scam, which has been going on for at least five years, take the social security numbers of Puerto Ricans -- who don't have to pay federal income taxes -- and use them to file fake tax returns. Prosecutors have been able to ... See all stories on this topic »

Billions Lost in Tax-Refund Scam Wall Street Journal By REED ALBERGOTTI WSJ's Joanna Chung has details of a scam by which identities of Puerto Rico residents are being used to cheat the Internal Revenue Service out of nearly $7 billion. Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Federal authorities are ... See all stories on this topic » Wall Street Journal

iTunes scam gang netted 'Madonna-level' royalties BBC News The leaders of an 11-strong gang which scammed iTunes and Amazon out of royalties to a level associated with acts like Madonna have been jailed. The gang members from Kent, Derby, Birmingham and Wolverhampton used stolen credit cards to buy their own ... See all stories on this topic » BBC News

Scam to swindle music royalty payments from iTunes and Amazon exposed in UK Digitaltrends.com A scam used to defraud iTunes and Amazon out of £500000 has been exposed in the UK, with the criminals behind it receiving jail sentences this week. A group of eleven criminals in the UK have been jailed or given suspended sentences, after a plot to ... See all stories on this topic » Digitaltrends.com

Outwitting the Scam Artists Hartford Courant Yet last year, I found myself in the middle of a Craigslist vacation home rental scam and recently almost fell for a text message scheme promising a free Walmart gift card. It's easy to fall prey. Consumer scams are proliferating and new, ... See all stories on this topic »

British Gang Jailed for iTunes Scam RollingStone.com By Rolling Stone Gang members in England used stolen credit cards to purchase their own music on iTunes and Amazon as a scam to earn royalties, the BBC reports. Five gang members from Kent, Derby, Birmingham and Wolverhampton, England have been jailed, ... See all stories on this topic » RollingStone.com

Former Mrs. Pakistan used her striking appearance to scam California families San Jose Mercury News But the same physical assets that snared Hasnain that top title also helped her lure South Bay homeowners into a loan modification scam she and her husband, Jawad, operated from 2008 through October 2010, prosecutor Victor Chen contends. See all stories on this topic »

Fake movers ran big scam across Texas Houston Chronicle Dozens of people in cities around the state report being victimized by scam artists based in Houston who posed as a legitimate moving company through Craigslist posts. The customers looking for an inexpensive move say they've been ripped off or robbed ... See all stories on this topic »

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