Scam Related News (04/29/2007)

Oshkosh police warn of scam aimed at EAA renters
The Reporter - Fond du Lac,WI,USA
Homeowners who are renting their homes out to EAA AirVenture attendees should be on the lookout for a scam looking to obtain personal bank information. …

Hunt for trafficking scam’s kingpin
Times Now.tv - Mumbai,Maharashtra,India
Now the police are on the lookout for the kingpin, an agent called Rashid whose arrest could open up another can of worms in the scam. …

Tax assistance is a business scam
Blue Springs Examiner - Blue Springs / Independence,MO,USA
I believe, and others I’ve spoken with believe, that TIF is a scam used by business to help mitigate risk exposure. To successfully manage a business, …

Police break up alleged scam
Bellevue Leader - Bellevue,NE,USA
The Sarpy County Sheriff’s Department arrested an Arkansas man and warned the public about a scam that was busted up in a rural part of Bellevue last week. …

Six LTTE agents operating a credit card scam were sentenced to …
SPUR.asn.au - Mulgrave,Victoria,Australia
The main criminal, Mr. Satrubarajah Shanamugarajah (RUBY), in Norway?s larges credit card scam has today been sentenced to five years and six months prison. …

Scotland Yard on track of suspected Tiger siphoning scam
Sunday Times.lk - Columbo,Sri Lanka
At least 40 Sri Lankans owning filling stations in several counties were questioned by Scotland Yard detectives in connection with the scam. …

Beware of scam
Coshocton Tribune - Coshocton,OH,USA
I just received a letter and a check all very official-looking with names and numbers and all the stuff to suck you right in. You deposit the check and then …

Fodder scam case: Tirkey to depose case
Times of India - New Delhi,India
According to CBI sources, Tirkey was not made a co-accused despite his prima facie connivance with one of the fodder scam accused because his act amounted …

Carbon Trading Is A Scam?
Anorak.co.uk (satire) - UK
The government department spearheading Britain’s effort to reduce carbon output is driving companies and individuals towards paying for emissions cuts that …

LinkedIn Scam-fest?
By David Wilkinson
Speaking to Ray van den Bel about social networking tool, LinkedIn, resulted in a rather interesting discovery on his behlaf, on how the ‘LinkedIn Jobs’ network operates. The results were rather shocking, too… Here’s the full story, …

Linux used as hook in 419 scam
By Eric
Yet another 419 scam. No, there isn’ta lottery for Linux users. And there aren’t any lotteries that pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to people who have not purchased lottery tickets. The scammes count on their victims being so …

Television Preview is a bait and switch scam
They lure you in by saying you’ll be part of a test group for potential tv pilots. It’s actually a trick to get you to participate in extensive and lengthy products surveys. Don’t waste your Saturday night.

Scam Related News (04/28/2007)

Lottery Scam Hits Local Residents
WVVA TV - Quincy,IL,USA
On Monday, NBC six told you about a check scam company telling people they are the winners of a North American Sweepstakes. Since Monday’s show viewers have …

Gang foiled on verge of £17m scam
icBerkshire - Reading,England,UK
A gang of fraudsters plotting the UK’s biggest ever credit card scam were foiled after police carried out anti-terrorist searches, a court has heard. …

Bank card scam is an Italian job
York Press - York,UK
As police investigate an international cash card cloning scam, chief reporter Mike Laycock tells how he fell victim to the skimmers. …

CoD to probe RGUHS PGET scam
Times of India - New Delhi,India
BANGALORE/DAVANAGERE: Unhappy with the delay in the CBI probe into the Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences’ Post-Graduate Entrance Test 2006 scam, …

Man held over ‘Real Hustle’ scam
BBC Birmingham - UK
A man has been arrested by police investigating a scam in which Birmingham bar owners were left fake dry-cleaning bills. …

Woman Pretends To Have Cancer In Scam
MyFox Saint Louis - Saint Louis,MO,USA
What is an appropriate punishment for people who scam others by pretending to have cancer? By The Associated Press. JACKSON, Mich. …

Police arrest two men in Craigslist sales scam
Tri-Valley Herald - Pleasanton,CA,USA
Detective Fred Bobbitt of the Fremont Police Department explains how scam artists used this imitation flat screen television to defraud people of thousands …

IPO scam: Straight from behind scenes
Economic Times - India
MUMBAI: The day after the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) blew the lid off yet another IPO scam and barred seven entities from trading in any …

Alert sounded over shares phone scam
UNSUSPECTING residents in Bournemouth are being targeted by “boiler room” scams - overseas operations using high-pressure phone selling techniques to persuade investors to purchase virtually worthless shares.

Japanese fooled in poodle scam
By dragonsinger(dragonsinger)
Japanese police believe there could be 2000 people affected by the scam, which operated in Sapporo and capitalised on the fact that sheep are rare in Japan, so many do not know what they look like. “We launched an investigation after we …

Hijack Scam Hits Google Ads
Scammers bought Google keywords that let them hijack personal data from customers who thought they were going to such legitimate sites as the Better Business Bureau and cars.com. From AP:. Google said it dismantled the offending links …

It’s a scam
By LisaKate(LisaKate)
I’m on hold with Comcast right now and discovered that the previous tenant had not cancelled her service so I could have been watching basic cable for the past 2 months at NO charge! DAMN. And her name is Lisa too. …

Dog owners ‘fleeced’ in poodle scam
By Spluch(Spluch)
But the scam was only spotted after a leading Japanese actress said her ‘poodle’ didn’t bark and refused to eat dog food. Maiko Kawakami, who starred in the Japanese thriller Violent Cop, showed photographs of her pet on a television …