Thursday 17 May 2012

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Insurance Scammers Caught After Using Same Crappy Furniture In All Their Bogus ...
Miami New Times (blog)
By Tim Elfrink Thu., May 17 2012 at 8:56 AM Insurance fraud is a really tough crime to prove, especially when scammers deliberately set fires. To show it's arson, all kinds of experts have to do painstaking analysis on burn patterns and chemical traces ...
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Miami New Times (blog)
Mortgage scammer sentenced
Chico News & Review
In federal court in Sacramento on Friday (May 11), William Baker of Chico was sentenced to 18 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for his role in a Chico-based mortgage scam, according to a press release from the US ...
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Scammers' wrong number - hello Mr Plod
New Zealand Herald
By Phillip Rollo of the Waimea Weekly Senior constable Dave Colville is bemused that an international phone scammer would call the Richmond Community Police Station. Photo /Waimea Weekly International phone scammers dialled the wrong number when they ...
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Scammers seek homes for sale
13abc Action News
Scammers go to legit web pages, copy the photos, make a new listing on craigslist. But this time the home is listed for rent, not purchase. "It's terribly frustrating for everyone because there are people out there who think they have legitimately rent ...
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Now on Pinterest: Scams
New York Times (blog)
One tool kit profiled by McAfee gets the ball rolling by pushing people to pin the scammer's site — such as a site promising free gift cards — to their Pinterest profiles in an effort to get exposure to more potential victims.
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Scammers try to trick Hoosiers searching for rental housing online
The Statehouse File
Unfortunately, victims wire the money before noticing the scammer's check was a fake." Scammers prefer to use wire transfer companies like Western Union and MoneyGram because it's like sending cash and they get the money quickly.
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CFO Jeff Atwater Announces Arrest of Senior Scammer for $2 Million Investment ...
Insurance News Net (press release)
Florida Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater announced today the arrest of former insurance agent Neal Seth Smalbach , 49, of Palm Harbor , for grand theft in misrepresenting details of financial products to multiple senior clients who allegedly ...
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AusCERT 2012: Fear of ridicule causing online scams to go unreported
Australian Techworld
Online scammers will continue to target Australian consumers because most victims are too embarrassed to report scams to law enforcement agencies, according to Queensland Police Detective Superintendent, Brian Hay. Speaking at AusCERT on the Gold Coast ...
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Beware debit-machine scammers
Kamloops This Week
On Thursday, May 10, a North Kamloops woman was taken for more than $500 by a scammer in Northhills Mall. In that instance, the woman approached a table in the mall where a man had set up a number of Starbucks gift bags. She was told the goodie bags ...
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