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2008)

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Thousands hit in ATM scam
Globe and Mail - Canada
The scam involved surreptitiously recording customers’ debit-card data as they did their banking and then transferring it to assorted types of phony, …

6 accused of targeting lenders in fake-mortgage scam
Houston Chronicle - United States
By CINDY GEORGE Six Houston-area residents were arrested Wednesday, accused of tricking lenders into funding more than $24 million in bogus mortgage loans. …

Scam Artists Caught On Tape Spending Dead Man’s Money
NewsChannel5.com - Nashville,TN,USA
The man and woman are connected to a similar scam in Mississippi. Police said they open bank accounts and get fake identification to make everything appear …

Domain Name Scam Busted
New York Times - United States
By Angus Loten, Inc.com The federal government is seeking a permanent restraining order against a Canadian firm it accuses of bilking US small businesses …

Scam e-mails on Myanmar, China tragedies on the rise
ABS CBN News - Philippines
Donation e-mail scams capitalizing on recent tragedies in Myanmar and China are on the rise, a report by software firm Symantec Corporation said Wednesday. …

IRS warns of tax refund email scam
KPAX-TV - Missoula,MT,USA
The IRS is issuing a warning about several e-mail scams related to your tax refunds. The bogus e-mail appears to be a solicitation from the IRS and the US …

Former smoke shop owner pleads guilty to debit-card scam
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
By PHUONG CAT LE A former smoke shop owner accused of skimming information from customers’ debit and credit cards and using it to siphon money from their …

Massachusetts AG Wins $1.8 Million Foreclosure Assistance Scam …
Housing Wire - USA
… General Martha Coakleyâ€™s Office and 10 different mortgage lenders and servicers that had funded or serviced loans used in a foreclosure rescue scam. …

Think you love shopping? It’s the marketing scam of the century
Independent - London,England,UK
The folly of rampant consumerism as resources grow scarcer is lost on no one, least of all the marketing community. Still, desperate to maximise profits, …

Man convicted of lobster truck scam sentenced
Boston Globe - United States
PROVIDENCE, RIâ€”A man convicted of scamming nearly three dozen people with a bogus story about a broken-down lobster truck has been sentenced to 16 years in …

IRS warns of tax refund email scam
The IRS is issuing a warning about several e-mail scams related to your tax refunds. The bogus e-mail appears to be a solicitation from the IRS and the US government.
MONT - KBZK - Bozeman - Home - http://www.montanasnewsstation.com/global/category.asp?c=50432

Credit Card Scams Part III: The Balance Transfer Scam
By David Z
I still think that many or perhaps all of the â€œget out of debt for freeâ€ programs that they offer are scams, but they are probably not any worse than the scams routinely perpetrated by the credit card companies to begin with. …
…no third solution - http://nothirdsolution.com

The End of a $600 Million Scam
By Mark Stein
A man at the center of a $683 million fraud of nearly two dozen banks, including JP Morgan Chase, to obtain loans for a fake metals trading scheme, won’t face additional prison time because of his cooperation with the government, …
Portfolio.com: All Articles Feed - http://www.portfolio.com/

IMPORTANT SCAM ALERT FOR ALL WRITERS!
By P. N. Elrod(P. N. Elrod)
I’m a bit slow on the uptake as I only learned about this today, but please get this message out to any writing boards, blogs, whatever, so this leach doesn’t make one red cent off his scam. …
Jack Fleming’s Journal - http://p-n-elrod.livejournal.com/

Phishing Scam Targets Families of Fallen Soldiers
WASHINGTON - A “phishing scam” targeting the Families of fallen Soldiers reportedly has con artists promising compensation in exchange for information that might aid them in identity theft.
Digg / Security / upcoming - http://digg.com/security

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