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More than 1,000 businesses affected by same malware as Target
The Secret Service estimates more than 1,000 businesses have been affected by the same kind of cyberattack that scraped Target's cash register system for consumer credit card information, the Department of Homeland Security said in an advisory Friday afternoon.
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You'd Never Spot This Razor-Thin ATM Skimmer
The constant drive for miniaturization doesn't just apply to consumer electronics: the crooks are at it, too. And when it comes to card skimmers, this tiny thing is pretty much impossible to spot.
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The Grandparent Scam
Every day, phones are ringing in homes across the country. Maybe yours. On the line: organized teams of con artists trying to bilk you out of thousands of dollars by impersonating your loved ones. One especially lucrative scam targets the supposedly vulnerable demographic of grandparents. A journalist and grandmother sets out to discover who’s calling—and the real reason why the “grandparent scam” works so damn well.
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Phone Scam 2: Gareth
Those phone scammers called back again for round 2.
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Turning the tables on “Windows Support” scammers by compromising their PCs
Tech support scams are nothing new—we first went in-depth almost two years ago on "scareware scammers" who cold-call unsuspecting victims and try to talk them into compromising their computers by installing remote control applications and handing the keys over to the scammers.
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Insurance scammer goes all out
Insurance scammer goes all out
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The story of the fake bomb detectors
The sentencing of a British couple for making fake bomb detectors marks the end of a series of trials after a global scam which saw the devices end up in conflict zones and used by governments around the world.
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AT&T Forced to Refund $80 Million for Years of Scammy Billing
AT&T must pay its mobile customers $80 million and cough up an additional $25 million in fees, the FCC has ruled, due to its long history of "cramming" hidden charges into its customers' cell phone bills. It is the largest Federal Communications Commission fine in history.
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Google Study Finds Email Scams Are More Effective Than You'd Expect
You know those weird emails that try to trick you into handing over your information? Turns out they work way better than you'd expect, according to a new study from Google and the University of California, San Diego.
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When Is Fortune-Telling a Crime?
All of New York's storefront psychics are technically breaking the law. But they're rarely prosecuted, even when they disappear and leave victims short tens of thousands of dollars.
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Buccaneers' Stadium Caught Selling Colored Water As Alcohol
The concessions vendor at the Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ Raymond James Stadium stirred controversy after a bar was reportedly caught serving flavored water as if it was alcohol. A cellphone recording captured by Troy Sykes at Tampa’s Ray Jay Bar exposed that the bartenders were serving colored water as liquor to customers, WFLA-TV reports. Sykes and a friend ordered tequila that turned out to be water from a decorative bottle of booze.
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Camera in your cash machine?
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Woman tries to kick owners out of $4.7 million Chesterfield mansion
Police say a woman going by the name “Queen” tried to file false paperwork to take possession of a $4.7 million home last summer. Lakresha Slaughter, 28, filed a claim with the St. Louis County recorder of deeds for the Chesterfield home on July 3rd. The couple who own the home put it on the market and took it off. They were still living in the mansion when “Queen” put a sovereign claim on the home. Police say Slaughter thought the home was unoccupied or abandoned.
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'Microsoft tech support' scammer recorded threatening to kill B.C. man
The "Microsoft tech support" scam is now the biggest telephone ripoff in Canada — but as B.C. man Jakob Dulisse found, callers are using increasingly nasty tactics to steal our money. Dulisse of Nelson, B.C., decided to take matters into his own hands two weeks ago, turning the tables on a man falsely claiming to be calling from California to offer Microsoft tech support.
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The Email Scam with Centuries of History
That Nigerian Prince email scam is one of the oldest tricks in the book. Your grandparents' grandparents might have fallen for it. You receive a letter, generically addressed, from a person in a foreign country. The writer claims to have been estranged from an improbably large sum of money. Though you are a stranger to him, he needs your help in getting it back. He promises to handsomely reward you in exchange for this minor favor. Please contact him to discuss the details.
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New Nigerian scam targets writers
A new Nigerian scam targets writers. Here is how to recognize it, even if they say they're from Ghana. Or Vietnam. Or Finland.
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Meet the New Snake Oil, Same as the Old Snake Oil
During the administration of President Woodrow Wilson, government investigators performed laboratory tests of Clark Stanley's Snake Oil Liniment -- a potion supposedly made of rattlesnake oil that offered "immediate relief" for rheumatism, sciatica, sprains, lumbago, deafness, and other ailments. The tests found that the liquid contained not the advertised reptile juice, but rather mineral oil, red pepper, turpentine, and other ingredients.
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The Crazy Tax Scam You've Never Heard Of
Sovereign citizens believe they don’t have to pay taxes because their name isn’t punctuated or capitalized correctly. Some of them even believe the government owes them $630,000. Sound crazy? My dad was one of them.
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Cooper Union: Will Jamshed Bharucha go quietly?
If Bharucha cares at all about Cooper Union, it’s pretty obvious that at this point he should resign. By Felix Salmon.
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Millions donated for cancer patients spent on gym memberships, luxury cruises, federal lawsuit alleges
A Tennessee man and his family who collected $187 million through charities promising to help cancer patients spent much of the money on themselves, from luxury cruise vacations to college tuition for their children, according to a federal lawsuit. The lawsuit, filed by the Federal Trade Commission and attorneys general nationwide, named The Cancer Fund of America in Knoxville, Tennessee, and its affiliated Cancer Support Services...
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