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Watch Out: Credit Card Thieves are Skimming Gas Stations
Be careful when you use your debit or credit card for gas. See how thieves have been skimming gas stations and stealing your information.
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Mug shot extortion sites still up and running... for now
Mugshot websites are all still accepting payments on those credit cards a week after credit card companies promised to cut ties.
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Teen who bought an Xbox One on eBay got a $734 photo instead
Peter Clatworthy was searching in vain for a limited-edition Xbox One for his 4-year-old son. So, like many people do as the holidays approach, he found one on eBay for £450, or $734. But when the package arrived, Clatworthy found no Xbox inside—just a picture of a the gaming console.
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Nottingham teenager furious after paying £450 for a photo of an XBox One on eBay
A TEENAGER has been left fuming after mistakenly buying a photo of an in-demand computer console online. Peter Clatworthy thought he had paid £450 for an XBox One console on eBay, but actually...
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Kirsty Cox jailed for two years for £450,000 iPad scam
Kirsty Cox, from Newton Aycliffe, County Durham, took thousands of orders for the tablet computers between March and December 2012 after claiming she could source them at a reduced price. Teesside Crown Court heard how the 37-year-old was paid for the devices but could not provide them. Cox, who previously admitted four fraud charges, was jailed for two years.
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Were you charged $9.84? It might be fraud
Be on the lookout for a recent $9.84 charge on your debit or credit card. It might be part of a massive, worldwide scam. Thieves are using stolen payment cards to make small charges that could easily go unnoticed. The charges are attributed to generic-looking websites such as EETsac.com, CEWcs.com and EduAcc.in, which claim to offer customer support services.
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Don't return calls from these area codes - it's a scam!
A scam that repeats itself in modified forms every few years is once again spreading throughout the United Sates. Don’t be a victim! Criminals target people simply by calling them. Intended victims receive a call on their phones from area code 473 which rings once and then disconnects, thereby arousing the call-recipient’s natural curiosity – “who just called me and from where?”
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Busting a credit card hacker
Interview with the Secret Service agent that infiltrated one of the world's biggest credit card hacking rings.
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How Four Men Conned People into Investing in a Jean-Claude Van Damme movie
A group of con artists allegedly ran a boiler room telemarketing scam, convincing 70 investors to fork over $1.7 million to fund a film supposedly set in Paris during WWII and starring Jean-Claude Van Damme.
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Dominica's Fake Ski Team Scammed The Olympics And The Press
After the opening ceremony, the Olympics were one long ungroomed trail for Gary di Silvestri and Angelica Morrone, the most-publicized husband-and-wife carpetbagging oldies act in cross-country-skiing history.
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Beware of a New Breed of Scammers Pretending To Be Netflix Tech Support
Netflix subscribers beware: There’s a scheme floating around the Internet that you should watch out for. If you’re not careful, you could end up about $400 poorer and with a stolen identity.
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IRS watchdog: Phone scam is largest ever
Criminals masquerading as Internal Revenue Service agents have bilked more than $1 million from thousands of taxpayers in the largest such phone scam the IRS has seen, the agency's watchdog said Thursday. J. Russell George, Treasury inspector general for tax administration, said more than 20,000 taxpayers have been targeted by bogus tax agents who claim victims owe taxes and demand they pay with a prepaid debit card or by wire transfer.
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SEO spammers' last-ditch efforts to save themselves
A couple years ago, the comments on my blog started to become overrun with spam, as I'm sure everyone with a blog can relate to. The email alerts were incessant. I had to turn them off, and I stopped paying attention to whether anyone commented altogether. I was essentially run out of my own blog by SEO scoundrels who were trying to game the system by seeding blogs everywhere with links to their shitty sites.
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The #1 paid app in the Google Playstore "Virus Shield" is a complete scam
Security is an important factor when it comes to technology, and in most cases you can never have too much. In 2014, our smartphones know more about us than we know about ourselves, and if malware were to creep onto our smartphones then we could potentially suffer some major consequences. As a result, like any reasonable person, we would look to secure our device. This is what Deviant Solutions, the creator of the current #1 Play Store app, decided to capitalize on.
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41 charged in $5-million Philadelphia dead deer car insurance scam
Forty-one people in Philadelphia are facing charges in what prosecutors call an elaborate insurance fraud scheme that used dead deer to fake car accidents. Ronald Galati Sr. is accused of running a $5 million US scam out of his auto body shop.
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Venezuela's Notorious Car Scammer Takes the Money and Runs
On Monday, a protest took place outside the General Attorney’s Office in Caracas, Venezuela — like the latest student protests, but this one was different. Those who attended and shouted for hours in front of the government building were victims of one of the biggest scams in the country.
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7 Ways to Spot a Weight Loss Scam
Oh, Dr. Oz. Surely you sorta knew this was coming? The Oprah protégé with the popular daytime show, whose full name is Mehmet Oz, has been criticized in the past for hyping “miracle” weight loss cures on his show, and yesterday, the TV doc got his comeuppance. Oz was harshly criticized at a Senate consumer protection hearing that followed up on the Federal Trade Commission’s $34 million January lawsuit targeting companies that sell bogus diet products.
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My Foursquare Check-In Saved Me From San Fran's Possibly Fraudulent Parking Ticket Scheme
I recently wrote an open letter to the San Francisco Metropolitan Transit Authority on what I believe to be a “scam” they’ve engaged in by operating with an F-graded BBB collection agency organization that issues collections notices, demanding money for parking citations from people who’ve never actually been to San Francisco. Ridiculous. They currently have 33 complaints on file, with 12 unresolved. I believe this is part of the city’s business model to increase revenue by targeting people who
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That Millennial Marketing Verve
Last summer, a dozen people, mostly in their late teens and early twenties, crowded into a living room in Aldan, Pennsylvania, a small working-class suburb outs
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The Secret Life of a Con Man
The son of a bank robber and sister of a psychopath explains how he found his own calling scamming a litany of unsuspecting suckers.
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