Saturday 24 March 2012

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"Quick Change" Scammer Gets Hundreds in Cash
WNEP-TV
By Renie Workman Police in Lackawanna County are looking for a man they call the "Quick Change" scammer, allegedly conning several cashiers at a Gerrity's Supermarket out of hundreds of dollars. Investigators said Thursday night, the man allegedly ...
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Survey scammers fling spam at Pinterest punters
Register
However, some lead to a cost-per-action (CPA) based network, in which case each successful sales conversion makes the scammer between $1 and $64 (£0.63 to £40), according to Symantec. The security firm speculates that a scammer might be earning a few ...
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Missoula Co. Sheriff's Office: Beware of scammers filing taxes on your behalf
KPAX-TV
"People go to file their taxes and they find out that their taxes have already been filed by somebody else-by a scammer," says Jason Johnson, Missoula County Sheriff's Office Public Information Officer. Johnson says in many cases the scammer gets ...
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Ambulance scammer active
Northern Advocate
"When the person said they did not have an email address, the scammer asked if he could give them his bank account number," Mr Rosser said. "Our member asked why and the scammer said it was in case of an emergency, so the account could be billed ...
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Renters warned about online scam
Calgary Herald
The scammer impersonates the realtor by using his or her name to respond to inquires from prospective renters, says Bob Jablonski, president of CREB. The scammer then tells the prospective renter he is unable to meet at the property and proposes that ...
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People Are Actually Still Falling For Online Money-Wiring Scams
Village Voice (blog)
The way it works, according to Schneiderman, is a scammer will post an ad on Craigslist for an apartment they're renting. The scammer will offer the apartment for a much lower rate than the apartment would normally be rented for, and advise potential ...
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Feds sue AT&T over $16 million collected from fraudulent charges
Digitaltrends.com
In addition, the government claims that AT&T has been collecting the $1.30 per minute rate on these overseas calls from the scammers. The Justice Department estimates that up to 95 percent of the calls didn't fit the criteria of originating in the ...
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Madoff FBI files reveal how he deceived his own employees: report
New York Post (blog)
Scammer Bernie Madoff regularly deflected questions about his trades in an attempt to convince employees that his Ponzi scheme was a legitimate business, new FBI reports reveal. Former CFO Frank DiPascali, who pleaded guilty in 2009 to his role in ...
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Authorities believe alleged storm scammer operated illegally for decades
WHAS 11.com (subscription)
by Adam Walser Louisville, Ky. (WHAS11)- Bizarre details are coming out Friday about a man accused of keeping donations intended for storm victims, passing himself off as a federal agent and encouraging another volunteer to dole out medicine to ...
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Mount Prospect man scammed out of $2400
Chicago Daily Herald
The Mount Prospect man did send the money and then called the scammer, who told the man he needed to send an additional $5000 to have the charges against his grandson dismissed. The man became suspicious and phoned his daughter, who told him her son ...
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