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July 4, 2007

Police warn residents about mail scam 10:56 AM CT
Dallas Morning News (subscription) – TX,USA
Weatherford police are warning residents of a possible mail scam in which people are told they have won tens of thousands of dollars. …

New cell phone scam rings a bell
Daily Times – Lahore,Pakistan
By Hasan Ali LAHORE: The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has recently received many complaints that people were “losing their mobile phone …

Former Cal State athlete sentenced to 5 years in real estate scam
KESQ – Palm Desert,CA,USA
… to help promote his business was sentenced to five years in prison for duping more than 200 investors out of $32 million through a real estate scam. …

Judge orders $3.5 million bond in immigration scam case
Newsday – Long Island,NY,USA
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) _ A Branford man accused of bilking illegal immigrants out of hundreds of thousands of dollars has been ordered held on $3.5 million …

Police Uncover Audacious ATM Scam
Chosun Ilbo – Seoul,South Korea
… of the accomplices and is chaing the other six. Police are investigating whether there were further such crimes since a similar scam was reported in China.

Woman Wanted In House Fix-And-Flip Scam Arrested In NY
NBC Sandiego.com – San Diego,CA,USA
Chanla is the last of three women arrested on charges of bilking New York investors in a housing fix-and-flip scam. One has pleaded not guilty in New York …

Police Probe N800m Fertiliser Scam
This Day (subscription) – Apapa,Lagos,Nigeria
Adamawa State police command has commenced investigations into the fertilizer scam that rocked Governor Boni Haruna’s administration in Adamawa State …

NOVATO: POLICE WARN OF PRIZE SCAM LETTERS TO RESIDENTS
CBS 5 – San Francisco,CA,USA
Novato residents are receiving scam letters in the mail about a Fortune 500 Prize Pool, police said today. Officer Sasha D’Amico said the letter and an …

Freehold resident alerts police to mail scam
Millstone Examiner – Millstone,NJ,USA
BY CLARE MARIE CELANO A 77-year-old Freehold resident was the intended victim of a flim-flam scam on June 27. The resident’s assessment of the situation …

Desperate homeowners = scam victims
By skbell1
Avoiding scams in the first place: As described in the story, there are legal aid groups that can help scam victims. The paper also notes that states are starting to crack down on these companies and equity stripping schemes in general. …
Don’t Mess With Taxes – http://dontmesswithtaxes.typepad.com/dont_mess_with_taxes/

Ex-athlete sentenced in real estate scam
… former Cal State Fullerton baseball player who hired one time Dodgers star Steve Garvey to help promote his business was sentenced to five years in prison for duping more than 200 investors out of $32 million through a real estate scam.
ABC Money News – What or Who… – http://www.abcmoney.co.uk

Update: Data theft scam targets CEOs
By Catherine
… their PAs in some instances, are circulating in very small numbers. However it is the level of detail, rather than the pure numbers, that MessageLabs claims gives the greatest cause for concern.” link: Data theft scam targets CEOs.
Flying Hamster – http://flyinghamster.com/

How to scam a spammer
By jimstroud
Interpol has recently observed West African scammers moving to base their activities in Europe, and a relatively new breed of scam – love fraud – is coming out of the Baltic countries. Love fraud victims are conned into sending money …
– http://jimstroud.com

‘Win an iPhone’ – the latest scam to hit unsuspecting email recipients
By JP
The criminals behind the scam aren’t your run of the mill scammers, they are using sophisticated techniques to thwart security firms. The web site in question uses more than ten pieces of malicious code, each targeting a potential …
Product Reviews Net – http://www.product-reviews.net

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