Thursday 6 December 2012

Google Alert - scam

News9 new results for scam
 
Why It's Easier To Scam The Elderly
NPR (blog)
Lots of scams come by phone or by mail, but when the scam artist is right in front of you, researchers say the clues are in the face. "A smile that is in the mouth but doesn't go up to the eyes, an averted gaze, a backward lean" are some of the ways ...
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NPR (blog)
Ex-Pittsburgh employee pleads in computer scam
San Francisco Chronicle
PITTSBURGH (AP) — A former systems analyst for the City of Pittsburgh has pleaded guilty to accepting $6,000 in bribes to help a man fraudulently obtain a $327,000 contract to install radios and computers in city police cars. Fifty-five-year-old ...
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Scam Leaves Family Puppy-less for Christmas
LiveScience.com
In a holiday nightmare, one woman learned the hard way that buying pets online is never a safe bet, no matter how carefully a seller is vetted. North Dakota resident Marlene Partlow, who purchased a teacup Chihuahua puppy for $350 via PayPal, told the ...
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Woman Shares Puppy Scam Warning After Almost Falling Victim 3 Times
CBS Local
CHURCHILL (KDKA) — The holidays are the time of year scam artists kick things up a notch, and a woman from Churchill looking to get two puppies suspects she was almost scammed three different times. Tami Warfield fell in love with the idea of two ...
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CBS Local
Bethlehem police say kidnapping scam defrauded man of about $500
The Express Times - LehighValleyLive.com
A Bethlehem man lost about $500 in a phone scam where he was told his father was being held hostage, city police say. Authorities were dispatched to a home in the 400 block of Saucon View Drive for reports of a hostage situation, according police Lt ...
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Cop charged in insurance scam
Philadelphia Inquirer
Cop charged in insurance scam. Off. April Shaynick: Suspended with intent to dismiss. STEPHANIE FARR, Daily News Staff Writer farrs@phillynews.com, 215-854-4225. Posted: Thursday, December 6, 2012, 3:01 AM. A CITY COP who fled the scene of an ...
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Why it's easier to scam older people
SmartPlanet.com (blog)
signal that younger people get," Taylor says. Up to 80% of scam victims are over 65. Both the Federal Trade Commission and Federal Bureau of Investigation have found that older people are easy marks due in part to their tendency to accentuate the ...
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Downtown parking scam costing victims hundreds of dollars
Fox 59
Indianapolis Metropolitan Police are on the lookout for somebody posing as a parking lot attendant across the street from Bankers Life Fieldhouse. The fake attendant has been busy over the last couple months, pocketing money from drivers who end up ...
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New identity theft scam from South Africa
Examiner.com
One way that those thefts occur is through email scams such as the one that began making the rounds on Dec. 5. The Dec. 5 email was sent to an unknown number of recipients in form of a solicitation from Ned Bank of South Africa for $66,700,000,000.
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