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Thousands gypped in P12-billion scam Inquirer.net A company managed by a former janitor and driver, and founded just early this year, has duped at least 15,000 people in Mindanao and the Visayas of P12 billion in a pyramid scam, an official of the National Bureau of Investigation said Tuesday. The NBI ... See all stories on this topic » Inquirer.net

McAfee: Web users should watch out for holiday scams PCWorld Web users and people shopping online during the upcoming holiday season should watch out for a new crop of scams, some of them targeting users of mobile devices, cybersecurity vendor McAfee warned. Many of the scams in McAfee's 2012 edition of its ... See all stories on this topic »

Holiday scams adapt to new technology Columbus Dispatch iPhone 5, iPad Mini and other hot holiday gift scams: Hot gift items and phony contests are used to entice users to click on links that download malware or persuade people to reveal personal information. • Skype message scare: This infects a computer ... See all stories on this topic » Columbus Dispatch

Link Building Scam Alert: When Links Are Held Hostage Search Engine Land On November 1st I reached the 19 year mark as a content publicist/link builder. Nineteen years. I won't bore you with how we went after links back then by rubbing two sticks together and sending up smoke signals. Smoke signal spam was not a big problem ... See all stories on this topic » Search Engine Land

Stock Guru scam: The big questions IBNLive A Rs 500 crore scam that left over 10,000 investors duped across seven states - the Delhi Police is now planning to approach the Enforcement Directorate and the Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO) to get to the bottom of it. However, 24 hours ... See all stories on this topic »

Old scam works again — grandma, 86, wires money to help 'grandson' Wisconsin State Journal The old scam involving a phone call from a relative needing money has worked again, Madison police reported. According to a police news release, an 86-year-old west side woman was duped into sending a substantial amount of money to someone she ... See all stories on this topic »

Common scams to watch out for after Hurricane Sandy Suburban News As many Garden State residents work to recover from Hurricane Sandy, state and federal officials are warning of a danger lurking around the corner: phony building contractors and other scam artists could soon appear in your community attempting to take ... See all stories on this topic »

Pension Scam - Court Declines to Quash Charges Against Accused Persons AllAfrica.com Abuja — Six civil servants, accused of complicity in the illegal diversion of N32.8 billion from the Nigeria Police Pension funds, yesterday, failed to persuade an Abuja High Court sitting at Gudu to dismiss the 16-count charge of criminal conspiracy ... See all stories on this topic » AllAfrica.com

'Twilight: Breaking Dawn' scam sucks your online credentials GMA News Vampire fans, beware: a new online scam offering "vampire" contact lenses in time for the upcoming "Twilight" movie "Breaking Dawn" threatens to bleed your accounts dry. Security blog "Hot for Security" said "Twilight" fans who fall for the scam risk ... See all stories on this topic »

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