Thursday 31 January 2013

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CBI files 23 more preliminary enquiries in NRHM scam
Times of India
NEW DELHI: In what may spell trouble for former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati and bureaucrats and government officials who worked under her regime, the CBI on Thursday registered 23 new preliminary enquiries (PEs) in connection with alleged ...
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Scam Targets Hispanic Community
Hartford Courant
Police have received more than 20 complaints about a scam targeting people in the Hispanic community. Since Jan. 27, city police received several related larceny complaints, Lt. Brian J. Foley said Thursday. In each case, the victims received a text ...
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Couple sentenced for tax scam in Roanoke
San Francisco Chronicle
ROANOKE, Va. (AP) — The owners of a defunct tax preparation business in Roanoke have been sentenced for filing false returns to illegally collect about $120,000 in refunds. Federal prosecutors say William and Michelle Ferguson fabricated information ...
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'Politicians, officials trying to conceal scam'
Deccan Herald
Kodagu Zilla Panchayat Member B B Bharathish who has brought misappropriations in Akshara Dasoha scheme to light, alleged that a few politicians and officers are trying to conceal the scam for their benefit. Speaking to media persons at Fort hall ...
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Principal of Pune school held for land scam in Hyderabad
Indian Express
The principal of a city school and her spouse were arrested in Hyderabad for allegedly trying to sell defence land to a Hyderabad-based education trust for Rs 18.5 crore, claiming to be the owners. The couple, remanded in judicial custody, is now ...
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Woman sentenced for clothing scam
Stockton Record
A Stockton woman who shoplifted women's designer clothing from department stores and sold it at a discount online, was sentenced Monday to four years and three months in federal prison for mail fraud and aiding and assisting in filing a false tax ...
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Man accused of internet scam is indicted
YNN
Man accused of internet scam is indicted. By: Web Staff. Man accused of internet scam is indicted. ONONDAGA COUNTY, N.Y. -- A U.S. citizen originally from Eastern Europe has been accused of using the internet to steal thousands from unsuspecting people ...
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State warns businesses to be wary of scam
La Crosse Tribune
MADISON — The state is warning Wisconsin businesses about a scam from a company calling itself Corporate Records Service. The Department of Financial Institutions says there is no state requirement to fill out a so-called Annual Minutes Form and ...
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Better Business Bureau Warns of Phone Scam About Debt
OzarksFirst.com
People around southwest Missouri are getting upsetting phone calls which the Better Business Bureau say are threatening and a scam. The Better Business Bureau released this information Thursday about the threatening calls: "BBB representatives have ...
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'A scam': National Review editor on Rubio's immigration plan
TheBlaze.com (blog)
The scam is to pretend that this isn't the most significant point in an immigrant's changing status. "Our purpose," the Gang of Eight says in its statement of principles, "is to ensure that no one who has violated America's immigration laws will ...
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Bail for Accused 'Sweetheart' Scammer Raised to $1 Million
Patch.com
A Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge today raised the bail for an alleged female scam artist to $1 million after hearing about more than $3 million in court judgments numerous victims won from her since 2007. Judge Kenneth Shapero increased the ...
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Bear-hunting scammer gets prison time
River Falls Journal
Bear-hunting scammer gets prison time. Wisconsin News A northeast Wisconsin man has been sentenced to six months in prison for breaking federal wildlife laws while operating a business as a bear-hunting guide. Talk about it. A northeast Wisconsin man ...
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Wednesday 30 January 2013

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Former RMV employee charged in license scam
Boston Herald
A former Registry of Motor Vehicles employee is facing up to five years in federal prison for allegedly creating more than 200 Massachusetts driver licenses at up to $300 a card for individuals who presented him legitimate Puerto Rican documents of ...
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Department warns of tax scam
WAVY-TV
RICHMOND, Va. (WAVY) - The Virginia Department of Taxation is warning citizens of a new phone scam. The department is receiving reports of phone calls to taxpayers that their "Way2Go prepaid MasterCard is locked for security reasons." The caller ...
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Ticketmaster CEO Gives Free Super Bowl Tickets to Scam Victims
Fox Business
When Ticketmaster CEO Nathan Hubbard heard about the scam, first reported by the Mercury News, he called Hayward, Calif., resident Sharon Osgood and offered her four free tickets and a breakfast with former Dallas Cowboys quarterback and current FOX ...
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2G scam: Court declines complaint against PM, Dayanidhi Maran
Times of India
NEW DELHI: A Delhi court today refused to entertain a complaint seeking registration of an FIR against Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and former telecom minister Dayanidhi Maran for their alleged role in the 2G scam. Special Judge Sangita Dhingra ...
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Bay Area couple pays $5900 for Super Bowl ticket scam
CBS sports.com (blog)
The scam artist told the couple he was a corporate tax attorney living in Boca Raton, Fla., and his wife was eight months pregnant, which was why they couldn't go to the game themselves. "For a week I was on the phone with this guy," Osgood said. "That ...
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Pop-up message for child porn a scam, police say
Wisconsin State Journal
The Madison Police Department learned of the computer scam Sunday when a 27-year-old Madison man notified police that a pop-up message on his laptop computer said he had 48 hours to get rid of the child porn and that he also needed to send $300 to ...
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NYC sub teacher accused of tutoring scam
Wall Street Journal
NEW YORK — A New York City substitute teacher is accused of running a tutoring-service scheme that racked up $2.3 million in bills between 2005 and 2012. According to court papers, Michael Logan of White Plains allegedly recruited former students to ...
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Urbana man gets probation over identity theft scam
Champaign/Urbana News-Gazette
URBANA — The last of four people involved in a scam that involved former Busey Bank tellers relaying personal customer identification to two other men who used it to steal money has been sentenced to probation. Deangelo Ashford, 21, whose last known ...
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'Rebecca' press agent now implicated in conspiracy to scam the Broadway ...
New York Daily News
'Rebecca' press agent now implicated in conspiracy to scam the Broadway musical's production company: suit. Producer Ben Sprecher has now included spokesman Marc Thibodeau in a lawuit against Mark Hotton and his wife, who are accused of creating ...
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Medicare scam
DesMoinesRegister.com
Iowa's Senior Medicare Patrol has issued a warning that scammers posing as Medicare officials are phoning Iowa's seniors and attempting to visit them in their homes. They are trying to obtain personal information to commit financial fraud. Their hook ...
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Police Seek Victims of Scammer
Patch.com
new_asset_attachment_attributes. Manhattan Beach police and county sheriff's deputies Tuesday were looking for victims of an Internet-based scammer who allegedly defrauded would-be romantic interests of cash and other valuables. James Bruce Rice, 52, ...
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Veteran fights back against loan-modification scam; scammer arrested
abc7.com
But he fought back, and the alleged scammer was arrested. That homeowner wants to share the lessons he learned. Former Marine Ruben Navarro owned his Monterey Park home for 24 years. But just before Christmas, he was evicted due to a foreclosure.
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Scammer Sends Hayward Couple 'Go Ravens' Note In Place Of $5900 Super ...
CBS Local
HAYWARD (CBS SF) – An East Bay couple is out nearly $6,000 after falling victim to a scammer offering fake tickets to the Super Bowl. The Osgood family found four seats for sale on Craigslist through an individual claiming to be a Baltimore Ravens ...
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Suspected Church Scammer Pleads Guilty To Felony Theft
KAKE
Suspected Church Scammer Pleads Guilty To Felony Theft. A man arrested last month for stealing an Andover preacher's van has pled guilty. Steven Brown is accused of trying to scam churches in several states. Andover Baptist Church pastor James ...
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CVEC warns of scammer calling about bills past-due
WSLS
Central Virginia Electric Cooperative (CVEC) has recently learned of a scam in which a few members were contacted by a person stating he represented the Cooperative, and that the members needed to pay a delinquent amount owed on their CVEC account ...
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Super Bowl ticket scammer mocks buyer before Ticketmaster save the day
JOE
Being scammed out of $5,900 is bad enough. To be mocked for it is even worse. Still, this tale has a very happy ending. We all know what the scramble for All-Ireland or Six Nations tickets is like so we can understand what sort of madness is going on ...
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Tuesday 29 January 2013

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Super Bowl ticket scam: 49ers fan wires $5900, gets only 'Go Ravens!' note
San Jose Mercury News
Like many determined San Francisco 49ers faithful, a Hayward couple spent last week scouring the Web looking for Super Bowl tickets. They found on Craigslist what they thought was a fair price: $5,900 for four seats, about double face value -- even if ...
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Secretary of State warns businesses of scam letter
Fox 59
Indiana businesses should be on the lookout for a deceptive letter that appears to be from the Secretary of State's office. According to Secretary of State Connie Lawson, the letter asks for a $125 annual fee for "record keeping and processing of a ...
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Potential scam puts restaurant owners on alert
York Daily Record
State officials are urging restaurant owners, managers and staff to be on guard against a potential scam in which an unidentified caller claims to be a health inspector and asks for business information and money. The caller is not a licensed agent of ...
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Coal scam: Koda aide Bastawade brought back to India
IBNLive
New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate on Tuesday brought back former Jharkhand chief minister Madhu Koda's aide, Anil Bastawade to India. The alleged mining scam kingpin has been accused in a money laundering case. He was detained in Jakarta on ...
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IRS sees new tax fraud scam at Southeast colleges, churches
Atlanta Business Chronicle
With tax season bearing down, the IRS has a warning about a new refund scam aimed at college students, seniors and church members. The Internal Revenue Service said Tuesday said the scam tries to get students to give their personal identification and ...
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Consumer Alert! Email Scam Blossoms After DOR Hacking
News Channel 7
The latest phishing scam preys on consumers' fears after the S.C. Department of Revenue's computer system was hacked last fall, where millions of South Carolinians' personal information was stolen by crooks. Since then, many consumers have signed up ...
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Baton Rouge woman accused of I-10 scam
San Francisco Chronicle
(AP) — A 32-year-old Baton Rouge woman has been arrested by Crowley police and another woman is being sought in what police say was a scam that hit four cities along Interstate 10. Police Chief K.P. Gibson tells The Advertiser (http://bit.ly/T4I7yO ...
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Secretary of state warns of business scam
TriCities.com
Secretary of state warns of business scam - TriCities.com: Local News: · Email · Facebook · Twitter · Mobile · RSS · Advanced Search · Partly Cloudy · 60° · Partly Cloudy · Home · News · Local · Opinion/Columns · Work it, TriCities · Weekly Newspapers ...
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Student victimized by online financial scam
Minnesota Daily
A University of Minnesota student discovered he was the victim of an online financial scam Friday, according to a University police report. Twenty-year-old Yiqun Zhang signed up to work as a tutor on UniversityTutor.com, a site for students to find ...
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How to stop scam text messages from getting to your cell phone
ABC15.com (KNXV-TV)
Don't get me wrong. I ask people to send me their scams. But, they keep coming. Which leads me to believe some people ARE replying and scammers ARE getting what they want. It's clear, exposing the scam ... repeatedly ... isn't enough. The real solution?
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Scammer's betting line generated millions before it unraveled
Las Vegas Review - Journal
These days, the biggest lock of Anthony Boscarino's life figures to be the one on the penitentiary cell door. But there was a time not so long ago that the 44-year-old Phoenix resident was a highly successful Internet sports handicapper and a Strip ...
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Charges Upped on Alleged Scammer After '20 or More Calls' Come In
Patch.com
After police said recently that at least 20 calls came in following notice of her arrest, more charges – and more serious charges – have been handed down on a woman officials said was caught scamming locals into donating money for fake fundraising efforts.
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Crime Nearby: Nonprofit Scammer Pleads Guilty to 47 Felony Charges
Patch.com
Commack. A former Port Jefferson Station resident and employee at the Long Island Head Injury Association, a Commack nonprofit that assists survivors of traumatic brain injuries, pleaded guilty last month to nearly 50 felony charges. According to court ...
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Beware of Potential Leaf Raking Scammer
Patch.com
In Crime Prevention 101, police and public safety heads of the different neighborhoods stress the importance of alerting law enforcement whenever something seems suspect. One Ormewood Park resident who lives on Delmar Avenue has done just that, ...
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Monday 28 January 2013

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Police warn of Somalian door-to-door scammer
Stuff.co.nz
Kapiti police are warning Waikanae residents about a man pretending to offer hedge trimming who is likely looking for theft opportunities. Senior Sergeant Alastair Macmillan said police had received complaints about a group of Somalian men looking for ...
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SC notice to Mayawati on Taj Corridor scam
Times of India
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday issued notice to former UP chief minister Mayawati on a petition challenging the governor's refusal in 2007 to grant sanction for her prosecution in Taj Corridor scam. Mayawati's counsel told the apex court that ...
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Times of India
Summit County Office of Consumer Affairs warns of Medicare phone scam ...
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"How the scam works is the caller claims to be from Medicare and is verifying the consumer's name, address, and telephone number and date of birth because they are issuing new Medicare cards. While they have you on the line, the caller also asks for ...
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Man tries to scam grandmother out of $880
Chambersburg Public Opinion
LOWER FRANKFORD TOWNSHIP - A 29-year-old Carlisle man tried to scam his grandmother out of more than $800 by giving a false car repair estimate. The 29-year-old man, no name given, had taken the 1997 Mercury of Janet Louise Conrad, 75, Carlisle, ...
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Murder-for-hire scam reported in Hannibal
STLtoday.com
HANNIBAL, Mo. — Northeast Missouri authorities say scammers are trying to convince people they must pay money so they won't become the target of a murder-for-hire plot. The Hannibal Courier-Post reports that the scam starts with an email, warning the ...
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Belfast plumber in hot water after running scam, police say
Bangor Daily News
BELFAST, Maine — Police said that a licensed master plumber got himself into some hot water Friday afternoon when he tried to run a scam on an elderly Belfast woman in order to try to generate a little more business during a slow season. Elwin Lord ...
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Taj Corridor scam: SC issues notice to Mayawati
Daily News & Analysis
The Supreme Court today sought the response of former UP chief minister Mayawati on a plea seeking her prosecution in the Rs17 crore Taj corridor scam case without the sanction of the governor. "We will examine the case," a bench comprising Justice HL ...
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Thousands hit by mobile scam
Irish Times
Communications regulator ComReg has begun an investigation after tens of thousands of Irish mobile phone users were targeted by a premium rate telephone scam over the weekend. Throughout Saturday night and Sunday morning thousands of people ...
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Green Mountain Power Warning of Phone Scam
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Vermont U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders is going on record opposing a moratorium on large-scale wind power projects on Vermont's mountain ridges. Sanders has called a news conference on Monday morning where he'sMore >>. Vermont U.S. Sen. Bernie ...
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Arunachal job scam kingpin surrenders
Times of India
ITANAGAR: The absconding kingpin of a job-scam, active in Pasighat-based North East Institute of Folk Medicines (NEIFM), surrendered before East Siang district police on Thursday. Osing Dai, who worked as a clerk in the NEIFM, was sent to seven-day ...
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Man Used Dead Wife Story As Money Scam
WETM-TV
A Coudersport man is under arrest for asking people for money to bury his wife as a scam. Pennsylvania State Police in Coudersport have arrested Robert Buchsenschutz of Harrison Valley and charged him with theft by deception. They say he was given ...
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Sunday 27 January 2013

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News10 new results for scam
 
Roosevelt man jailed in cable job scam
Newsday
Roosevelt man jailed in cable job scam. Originally published: January 27, 2013 9:33 AM Updated: January 27, 2013 9:42 AM By JENNIFER BARRIOS jennifer.barrios@newsday.com. A Roosevelt man was arrested on Saturday after he falsely told seven ...
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Caught out by cold-calling scam on timeshare owners
The Guardian
We have had many calls offering similar action and, on one occasion, met an adviser at the local Hilton Hotel. We realised it was a scam when the procedure involved joining a "holiday club". Do you have any comments on this company? HT, Nottingham ...
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Walter Zalisko: Seniors need protection from scam artists
Sun-Sentinel
Living in Florida has many advantages. However, for our seniors, it can become a nightmare. States with large senior populations are ripe for scam artists and crimes involving elder abuse and fraud. As a law enforcement officer and private investigator ...
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Court clears lawmaker, DPWH over 'lamppost scam'
Sun.Star
CEBU CITY -- The anti-graft court dismissed a complaint filed against Lapu-Lapu City Representative Arturo Radaza and 12 other officials in relation to the purchase of allegedly overpriced lampposts in 2007. In a decision dated January 17, 2013, the ...
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Pyramiding scam boss must face the law – Noy
Philippine Star
Pyramiding scam boss must face the law – Noy. By Aurea Calica (The Philippine Star) | Updated January 28, 2013 - 12:00am. MANILA, Philippines - President Aquino has vowed to bring back wanted businessman Manuel Amalilio and make him face the law ...
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Japanese tourists in Edinburgh targeted in bank card scam
BBC News
Police in Edinburgh have warned the public to be on their guard after two Japanese tourists were targeted in a bank card scam by men posing as police officers. The tourists were approached separately by two men who claimed to be carrying out financial ...
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Cag Office Susceptible to Scam - Minister
AllAfrica.com
Tanzania: Cag Office Susceptible to Scam - Minister. By Anthony Tambwe, 27 January 2013. THE office of the Controller and Auditor General (CAG) is vulnerable and susceptible to bribes and grand corruption, therefore honesty and dedication is required.
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Fake gold paddy scam uncovered
Emirates 24/7
Fake gold paddy scam uncovered. By. Correspondent. Published Sunday, January 27, 2013. In a historic temple premises, three suspects were arrested yesterday by the Dambulla police in the North Western province with 1,140 gold plated grains recovered ...
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Alleged mastermind of Philippine scam nabbed
The Star Online
KOTA KINABALU: The long arm of the law has finally caught up with the alleged mastermind of a Philippine investment scam who fled to Sabah after cheating 15,000 Filipinos of nearly 12bil pesos (RM895mil) last November. Malaysian police nabbed the ...
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Trio arrested in pre-paid card scam
Valley morning Star
WESLACO — The men behind a pre-paid credit card scam were tracked down in Corpus Christi by investigators this past week, the Weslaco police department said. Edward Smith, 51, Mark Dinn, 29, and Jaime Ortiz, 40, targeted convenience stores in Texas, ...
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