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Mom Seeks Police Help in Suspected Cancer... ABC News A mother says she will ask police to find the woman who she believes scammed her dying son. Thomas Doty, 20, of Washington state, died on Dec. 19 after a three-year battle with bone cancer -- but not before a woman apparently scammed him and his ... See all stories on this topic » ABC News

Woman charged in Newtown funds scam also sought Sandy relief money Fox News NEW YORK – A woman charged with trying to swindle donors by posing as a relative of a child killed in the Connecticut school massacre had also been soliciting money for Hurricane Sandy relief. Nouel Alba was arrested Thursday and accused of concocting ... See all stories on this topic »

Cash transfer: Whiff of scam in soon-to-be-rolled out UPA game-changer scheme Times of India NEW DELHI: UPA-II's flagship direct cash transfer scheme has run into rough weather following warnings of a potential scam in the making, and evoking concerns of serious delays. Government functionaries have raised the red flag about how cash would be ... See all stories on this topic » Times of India

os-scam-alert-winter-park-orlando-20121229 Orlando Sentinel Every media outlet in the country cound issue "alerts" about a whole list of scams every single day and you would still have a pack of numnuts falling for them. All comments are filtered for vulgar language, for web addresses and for e-mail addresses. See all stories on this topic »

PG&E warns of scam targeting elderly customers abc7news.com They say he's been calling elderly citizens, threatening to disconnect their service within an hour if they do not call back with a gift card number in the amount of an alleged past due bill. PG&E says this is a scam, stressing that they will never ask ... See all stories on this topic » abc7news.com

€12mn goes astray in Greek tourism scam RT Greece has launched a probe into the national tourist organization to account for 12 million euro lost due to "irregularities." It is the latest in a series of corruption scandals to hit debt-stricken Greece during the financial downturn. The probe ... See all stories on this topic » RT

Man accused of hole-in-one scam CBS sports.com (blog) Just when you think you've seen it all in golf, somebody goes and does this. Here's how Kevin Walter Kolenda of Norwalk, Conn., cheated various local golfers out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Step one: create fake insurance company, in this case ... See all stories on this topic »

Maine attorney general warns of phone scam WCSH-TV AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) - Maine Attorney General William Schneider says there's a new telephone scam claiming consumers are being threatened with legal action. Schneider says the calls are threatening, telling the consumer to dial another number to ... See all stories on this topic » WCSH-TV

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