Scam Related News (03/10/2007)
BART scam cost $300000 a year in lost revenue, officials say
San Jose Mercury News - San Jose,CA,USA
In January, BART engineers figured out a way to stop the scam, but officials estimated the agency lost an average of $830 a day, or more than $300000 a year …
Attorney General Warns of New E-mail Scam
KATV - Little Rock,AR,USA
Little Rock (AP) - The Arkansas attorney general’s office says some residents are receiving a scam lottery e-mail claiming to be sent by the FBI. …
NJ man arrested in coupon scam
Cherry Hill Courier Post - Cherry Hill,NJ,USA
Bharatkumar Patel, 52, of Parsippany was arrested early Thursday at his Forest Drive home, and charged with fraud for his involvement in the nine-year scam, …
Director: Global Warming is Big ‘Scam‘
Christian Broadcasting Network - Virginia Beach,VA,USA
Film director Michael Durkin says that global warming is “the biggest scam of modern times,” and he backs this up by featuring scientists from places such …
Edward Jones hosts ‘How to Protect Yourself from Scam Artists’
Village News Network - Fallbrook,CA,USA
Edward Jones financial advisor Kent Borsch of Bonsall will host a free satellite broadcast titled “How to Protect Yourself from Scam Artists” at 3:30 pm …
More suspects sought in cash for seats scam
Bangkok Post - Klong Toey,Bangkok,Thailand
The Crime Suppression Division (CSD) is searching for suspected accomplices of two alleged scam artists accused of trying to con a publisher into paying 40 …
SEC freezes $3M made in hacker stock scam
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
As with two other stock manipulation schemes the SEC has uncovered, this one relied on a multi-part scam. After buying lightly-traded “penny” stocks, …
Ark. AG warns of fake FBI e-mail scam
WMC-TV - Memphis,TN,USA
LITTLE ROCK The Arkansas attorney general’s office says some residents are receiving a scam lottery e-mail claiming to be sent by the FBI. …
Bank of Costa Rica Detects Phishing Scam
Forbes - NY,USA
About 150 account holders of the Bank of Costa Rica fell for an Internet phishing scam and gave their personal information in response to a fraudulent …
The Secrets Behind the ‘Black Money’ Scam
ABC News - USA
After being caught in the midst of a scam by 20/20, Ghanian native Eric Amoako decided to come clean and show Chief Investigative Correspondent Brian Ross …
USC prof pleads guilty to investment scam
Barry Landreth, a former professor at the University of Southern California business school, pleaded guilty Wednesday to charges of conning students into committing wire fraud unaware. Landreth had recruited students to be “project …
Daylight savings scam
By cuseboy
HARRISBURG – Attorney General Tom Corbett today cautioned consumers to be wary of possible scam email messages related to this year’s early switch to Daylight Savings Time. “Scam artists are very good at using current events to add an
eBay, Paypal scam spam
More safeguards needed: Whitman.
Boom Tip #32: Avoid Scam Artists
By Joe Freudenthal
Financial con artists have long targeted the elderly, but today’s scams have added a high-tech edge, with bogus e-mail pitches and fake Web sites designed to steal people’s personal information or lure them into bad investments. …
SEC freezes $3M made in hacker stock scam
An Eastern European cybercrime gang hacked into seven US brokerages as part of a stock manipulation scheme that netted it millions of dollars.
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