Thursday 7 June 2012

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Phone scammer makes sex threat
Otago Daily Times
Ministry of Consumer Affairs spokesman Alastair Stewart said scammers were becoming more threatening and abusive. "It's something we have been aware of for a while. "Anecdotally it does appear to be on the increase as people become more aware of these ...
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Scammer makes repeated demands
South Bend Tribune
It all started a couple of weeks ago when a local high school senior (whom I will call Joe) received a cell phone call from a man who we will refer to as Mr. Smith. Though he spoke with a broken accent, Smith had the exciting news that Joe was eligible ...
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Phone Scammers Targeting Utility Customers
Patch.com
Out of state phone scammers are targeting utility customers throughout the Tampa Bay area including in Clearwater. By Jared Leone Out of state phone scammers are targeting Floridian utility customers as well as those in other states, according to the ...
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Holocaust Fund Scammer Faces 40-Year Sentence
Courthouse News Service
By ADAM KLASFELD MANHATTAN (CN) - A Brooklyn woman pleaded guilty to her role in a fraud ring that embezzled $57 million from a group that helps compensates victims of Nazi persecution. Zlata Blavatnik, a former clerk for the Conference on Jewish ...
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PSE&G alerts customers to nationwide bill-payment scam
NorthJersey.com
As part of the ruse, scammers falsely say that President Obama is providing credits or applying payments to utility bills. The scammer calls utility customers and tells them the federal government has a program to pay utility bills on a one-time basis, ...
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Police advice for sex threat phone calls: 'Hang up'
New Zealand Herald
Photo / Thinkstock Increasingly desperate phone scammers have taken to threatening violence and using sexually explicit language. A Tauranga woman, who wanted to be known only as Judi, contacted the Bay of Plenty Times after a call from a man claiming ...
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Sentencing delayed for Kamloops Ponzi scammer
Kamloops This Week
By Tim Petruk - Kamloops This Week Sentencing has been delayed for a former Kamloops financial planner who admitted to duping at least eight clients over a five-year period. Ed Chieduch was supposed to appear in Kamloops provincial court this morning ...
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Police warn computer scam back again
EMC Smiths Falls
The latest iteration of this scam has victims receiving calls from scammers claiming to be from Microsoft or other PC companies. The scammer claims to have information that someone has or is attempting to hack into the victim's computer.
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Scam phone call claims your computer's at risk
KWCH
In the phone call, the scammer claims to be a computer technician and may say they work for Microsoft. The caller tried to trick the victim into taking control of your computer remotely. The call also will ask for credit card information in order to ...
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Beware of summer job scams!
HLNtv.com
In one case involving a student at the University of Missouri-Columbia, a scammer convinced the girl she would be the perfect nanny for the six-year-old son of a counselor for the deaf. The con artist even emailed the girl a picture of two people who ...
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