Monday 29 October 2012

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Kids and Money: Watch out for Microsoft job scam
McClatchy Washington Bureau
Of course, you know to be cautious about unsolicited job offers that land in your email inbox. Of course, you're also tired of looking for work since graduating from college last spring with a degree that's tethered to a six-figure loan balance. So ...
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Mail order scam: 'Addicted' Bridgend OAP spent £15k
BBC News
A pensioner became addicted to a mail order scam which has duped thousands of vulnerable and elderly people, his daughter-in-law says. Julie Davies, of Bridgend, said he had spent about £15,000 until his family realised what was happening. "He has ...
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BBB warns of election scams
Salisbury Post
Election Day is Nov. 6 and it is a prime time for scams. As the candidates and the public prepare for the big vote, scammers have been gearing up to steal your personal information. The Better Business Bureau is warning voters to be on the lookout for ...
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Let your fingers walk from this 'Yellow Pages' scam
Chicago Sun-Times
D ear Fixer: I work for a college. A couple of weeks ago, a representative from Yellow Pages called to demand payment for some advertising services. They said the fee for listing our company information on the Yellow Pages website for the past two ...
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Mail order scam from Belgium targets elderly people
BBC News
Joan Watkins lives in a London council flat on a small pension. She can ill afford the cosmetics and other mail order goods she has been buying from a mail order company. But when the letters started arriving in the post offering her amazing cash ...
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Grandma, please get me out of jail! Silicon Valley elders warned about this ...
San Jose Mercury News
Selma Corman knows all about one of the most popular scams designed to rip off older Americans. When a Santa Clara County prosecutor mentioned the notorious "Midnight Call" scheme at a meeting Sunday afternoon, she nodded her head and raised her ...
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Internet Crime Complaint Center's Scam Alerts
Kansas City infoZine
Washington, D.C. - infoZine - Report is based upon information from law enforcement and complaints submitted to the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) and details recent cyber crime trends and new twists to previously-existing cyber scams.
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Boris, Bond and the "driverless Tube" scam
The Guardian (blog)
At the core of the "driverless-Tube-will-break-the-unions" scam is the exploitation of confusion about terms. Many Tube trains are already "driverless" in the sense that on-board staff members located in cabs, like the one who assisted 007, normally ...
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'Scam' your way to promotions
Postnoon
Another who goes with a Net name 'soporific' says, "to get promoted in Congress cabinet U must do a scam!" What prompted him to say this was the promotion of Salman Khurshid as the external affairs minister. The man who remains to be cleared of the ...
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