Thursday 22 March 2012

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Scammer pleads guilty to illegally fixing bad credit scores
New York Daily News
By Robert Gearty / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS A sophisticated scammer pleaded guilty Wednesday to illegally fixing bad credit scores, and agreed to pay $9.3 million in restitution for loans made to the deadbeats he cleaned up. Edwin Jacquet, 39, of Brooklyn, ...
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Online Dating Websites Fight Back Against Scammers
NBC Los Angeles
By Joel Grover The California Attorney General's Office is working with several major online dating website to stop to stop scammers from targeting people looking for love. NBC4's Joel Grover reports. Although three of the biggest online dating ...
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Fitzgeralds: Scammer targeted Painesville bed and breakfast
News-Herald.com
By Max Reinhart When an international businessman offered to buy their bed and breakfast, which they've been looking to sell, Painesville residents Deb and Tom Fitzgerald were understandably happy. But that happiness quickly ceased when they realized ...
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"Brake Fluid Scammer" Allegedly Targeted the Elderly
NBC Los Angeles
By Irene Moore Larry Marco, aka Larry McNelty, was arrested March 2 after allegedly scamming an elderly woman when he claimed to be an auto mechanic. A 41-year-old Woodland Hills man is accused of scamming elderly drivers out of thousands of dollars by ...
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Text Message A Scammer's Fish Hook
WOWT
"The text message is a twist on the classic email phishing scam, where scammers pose as a legitimate organization and send out emails containing links to scam sites. Phishing scams using SMS technology are known as 'smishing', Jim Hegarty said, ...
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Spring break scammers ready to pounce on grandparents
Wisconsin State Journal
Facebook is also being used by scammers to find out all they can about students, their travel plans, family, and other personal details, so when the scammer calls grandma or grandpa, he or she can pretty much act like the grandchild.
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10 ways that scammers will try to sink your business
StartupSmart
"The only people who make money are the scammers. Exercise extreme caution when offered investment opportunities, especially if you receive an unsolicited email and/or call." Sadly, it's not just high profile hackers such as the Anonymous group that ...
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Detecting phone scammers automatically through keyword and voice tone analysis
Naked Security
by Lisa Vaas on March 22, 2012 | Leave a comment Fujitsu says it has created a system that can recognise when somebody is being victimized by a phone scammer, by combining voice intonation analysis with keyword recognition.
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Naked Security
Guyana distances itself from suspected passport scammer in St Maarten
Demerara Waves
TODAY NEWSPAPER, GREAT BAY ST MAARTEN- The Guyana Government via its Ministry of Foreign Affairs has distanced itself from a recent media report in which resident Guyanese Diane Douglas is sited as the local contact person for the processing and ...
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AG Schneiderman Issues "Consumer Alert" To Protect NY Residents From CL Rental ...
LoanSafe
Scammers will use realtors' multiple listing services to find properties that are legitimately for rent or sale. They take the information, change the contact information and offer a much lower price than the original listing. Oftentimes, scammers will ...
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