2007)

August 17, 2007

Pensioner duped by lottery scam
BBC News – UK
A pensioner from Edinburgh has been duped into handing over hundreds of pounds to an overseas lottery scam. The 85-year-old woman was targeted by fraudsters …

IMI uncovers ‘irregular payment’ scam
Times Online – UK
One of the UK’s oldest manufacturing firms has called in the US Department of Justice after uncovering a possible £20 million illegal payments scam in an …

Scam emails whipping up discontent
NEWS.com.au – Australia
Minister for Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs Mal Brough today said age pensioners should be alert to the “scam” emails, …

Insurance companies lose $20000 in alleged scam
Bizjournals.com – Charlotte,NC,USA
Four Silicon Valley men have been arrested on charges of insurance fraud, the state insurance commissioner’s office said Wednesday. …

Police warn of internet scam
News Wales – Knighton,UK
If follows a case where a man was sent an e-mail claiming he had won a new car and requested money to release the prize, but it was found to be a scam. …

Maharashtra: Dairy scam looms large
NDTV.com – New Delhi,India
A huge scam seems to have been uncovered in Maharashtra’s government dairies, thanks to the Right to Information Act. 32 dairies across Maharashtra have a …

Turtles seized in black market trading scam
ABC Online – Australia
Four people are expected to be charged on summons after wildlife officers seized more than one hundred turtles, nineteen candy-corn snakes and two pythons …

YourFreeMusicDownloads.com Is (Predictably) A Scam
Wired News – USA
A new free music site with the ominous name “YourFreeMusicDownloads” claims to offer free, open MP3s in exchange for a user filling out a survey. …

Kidney racket: were culprits involved in earlier scam?
Hindu – Chennai,India
… Nelamangala police of Bangalore Rural district on Sunday could be connected to a similar scam that was unearthed by the Mandya police in January 2002. …

The software awards scam
By Andy Brice
Similarly, any author or company, that displays one of these ‘awards’ is either being naive (at best) or knowingly colluding in the scam (at worst). My suspicions were first aroused by the number of five star awards I received for my …
Successful Software – http://successfulsoftware.net

Email scam: Heineken Promotion winning
By Khalid
Another scam claiming to be a promotion from Heineken, the beer company. Note how they say that no tickets were sold in order to remove concerns over “how would I win a lottery if I did not buy any tickets?” Advertisement:. read more.
The Baheyeldin Dynasty – “The… – http://baheyeldin.com

Olbermann on the Petraeus Scam. Will the Media report this as “The …
By John Amato
petraeus-bush.jpg Enough already. Why are the bloggers always so far ahead of our media? We all knew Petraeus was going to report exactly what the White House wants him too. Bush is his boss…I wonder why the LA Times buried this damning …
Crooks and Liars – http://www.crooksandliars.com/

Scam: The Mexican 8-Bit Xbox 360-Looking Emulator
By Brian Ashcraft
Confused? Heck, I’m confused, and I wrote this. Kotakuite Erzengel spotted a NES emulator in a Mexican shopping mall that looks an Xbox 360. He writes:. I was walking around a well known mexican mall (wich makes sense since im mexican), …
Kotaku – http://kotaku.com

Best Buy scam in Orlando?
Plan on purchasing some expensive electronics at Best Buy in Orlando? Then plan on them being gone in two weeks. Interesting story from the Screamscape blog.
Digg / Tech Industry News / digg – http://digg.com/tech_news

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