Scam Related News (07/27/2007)
Police probe investment scam
Toronto Star – Ontario, Canada
Three provinces are involved in a national probe into an apparent boiler room operation that is allegedly targeting Canadians with cold-call investment …
Vidarbha in grip of moneylending scam
NDTV.com – New Delhi,India
Vidarbha in Maharashtra has so far been known only as farmer suicide country but now chilling facts are emerging of how, spreading across urban Vidarbha, …
Phone Scam
KTRE – Lufkin,TX,USA
But so many people, continue to fall for the scam, thinking it really is their lucky day. In the end, it’s the other way around. …
Key grade scam figure surrenders
San Jose Mercury News – CA, USA
By Matt Krupnick MARTINEZ — The Pittsburg man deemed a mastermind of the Diablo Valley College grade-changing scheme surrendered to authorities Thursday, …
Police charge 2 with `black money’ scam
Charlotte Observer – Charlotte,NC,USA
In the scam, a person shows a victim money covered with a black coating or a stamp, preventing the cash from being used. Using a solution, the scammer gets …
Scam haunts CBI
Daily News & Analysis – Mumbai,India
NEW DELHI: The ghost of the multi-crore Cooperative Group Housing Society (CGHS) scam has come to haunt the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) again even …
Duo faces charges in Westbury rental scam
Newsday – Long Island,NY,USA
The scam started with an advertisement in Newsday that ran June 8, and it came to a close a month later. It offered a home at a monthly rent of $2000. …
The Great Green Marketing Scam (Media Inc.)
Seattle Post Intelligencer – USA
The most honest article is “The Great Green Scam,” on page 87. Guest columnist Dave Anolik, CD at agency Quango (his ad is on page 81) admits his company …
Property agent who ran scam with missing lawyer pleads guilty
Channel News Asia – Singapore
The extent of the scam was uncovered by the Commercial Affairs Department soon after Goh was first convicted and jailed in 2005 for a similar offence. …
New costly phone scam hits valley
Logan Herald Journal – UT,USA
The number is part of a phone scam that recently showed up in the valley and has been prevalent in the Hispanic community. The scam works this way: People …
In Brief: Think you’re email scam-proof? Take McAfee’s …
By Gina Trapani
Think you’re email scam-proof? Take McAfee’s 10 question phishing quiz which asks you to ID the authentic web pages over the scams. I scored a 7 out of 10 – you?
Lifehacker – http://lifehacker.com
Scam-backscatter 1.2.2 (Default branch)
Scam-backscatter is a milter that prevents backscatter on mail servers which don’t host mailboxes locally. It validates mailboxes by verifying the recipient addresses hosted on a different mail server. …
freshmeat.net announcements (Global) – http://freshmeat.net
Czech fraudsters work MySpace for Russian dating scam
By John Pospisil
Fraudsters behind the Russian Dating Scam usually target single 40-something males, and once trust is established through ongoing dialogue, the fraudsters start requesting money, which is usually required because of some unforeseen …
TECH.BLORGE.com – http://tech.blorge.com
Skin-care beverages: helpful, or just a scam?
By Jonathon Morgan
Filed under: Alternative Therapies, Food and Nutrition, Natural Beauty. You probably won’t find them at your local drug store, but those of you who shop in high-end beauty boutiques might have noticed drinkable and edible skin-care …
That’s Fit – http://www.thatsfit.com
OPEN THIS PAGE and help leech-kill internet scam sites! Let’s …
Feel like crashing a phishing/419 scam site? Open this page and leave it running. It’ll download pics from scam sites over & over so they either choke or exceed their bandwidth and the scammers have to pay more to restore them! …
digg / dig – http://digg.com/
