Scam Related News (09/25/2007)
Phone firm gets record fine for £20m TV scam
Guardian Unlimited – UK
The “reckless” premium rate phone services company that swindled GMTV viewers out of more than £20m over almost four years was yesterday hit with the ..
Two women arrested in church scam
News 14 Carolina – Raleigh,NC,USA
Unfortunately, Christian Ministries became the target of the scam. Police arrested Annie Delores Little and Spring Lanise Harden for soliciting money from ..
Judge told of Agriculture Scam
Fijivillage – Suva,Fiji
However, Defence Counsel Mehboob Raza told the court that his client is just another sacrificial lamb in the agriculture ministry scam from which former ..
Mortgage scam threatens 200 homes with foreclosure
Pioneer Press – St. Paul,MN,USA
Saadeh’s and Robbins’ plea bargain stated that the scam involved 200 homes. Their clients sometimes were people with limited funds and bad credit. ..
Con artists scam tourists
Sydney Morning Herald – Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
A police spokesman could not confirm the amounts of money that had been withdrawn, but said the scam had been operating “in recent times”. ..
Soldier’s father warns of scam
KOAA – Pueblo,CO,USA
A scam warning tonight from the father of a soldier who’s fighting in Iraq. Brian Peters says the scam cost him more than $400 he’d saved for his son’s ..
Scam artist pays price
St. Petersburg Times – St. Petersburg,FL,USA
… than a dozen elderly victims will receive part of $200000 in restitution from a man who pleaded guilty Monday to managing a telemarketing lottery scam. ..
IRS warns taxpayers about e-mail scam
WTNH – New Haven,CT,USA
The Internal Revenue Service has posted a warning on its website about an email scam. The e-mail tells you that part of your 2006 refund was delayed and you ..
Travellers’ cheque scam alert
TVNZ – New Zealand
When McLean’s flatmate got to the bank they told her it was a scam and the travellers’ cheques were fake. And as the people banking them, the flatmates were ..
Man denies check scam
Cape Cod Times – Hyannis,MA,USA
By Hilary Russ BARNSTABLE — The man accused of passing bad checks while lying about being a veteran of the Iraq war pleaded not guilty yesterday in ..
Lawyers conned in job scam on CraigsList
By Ed Dickson
Investment scams can be highly complex and the scammers can often appear to be pretty influential. Right now — there is a lot of furor, over a person by the name of Norman Hsu, who allegedly ran some pretty high dollar investment scams …
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Man pleads guilty to scam, returns money to victims
By Times staff
In one scam detailed in court papers, a telemarketer told 79-year-old Ada Korf that she had won more than $1-million from the Australian Lottery. She sent four checks totaling $429000 to the St. Petersburg mailing address. …
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Carbon Offsetting – Environmentally Sound, or a Scam
By Andy Chrysostomou
Editor’s Note: At Celsias we try to have a reasonably clear message on many important topics. Some areas, however, are a little grey…. Today we have two potentially conflicting posts one after the other by two different Celsias writers, …
Celsias – http://www.celsias.com
Warning to all customers receiving fraudulent/dodgy/scam renewal …
By Annalien
Dear all UK2 Customers It has been brought to our attention that there are scam renewal emails sent out our Customers which request you to renew your services and update your card/account details. Some “Scammer” is sending out these …
The Blob! The latest news from UK2 – http://blog.uk2.net
The “Part Time Job Offer” Scam
By Luke Maciak
Since documenting the UK National Lottery Scam turned out to be really helpful to many people, I decided to tackle another spam that appeared in my mailbox recently. It’s the “Part Time Job Offer” scam. Here is the lovely email I found: …
Terminally Incoherent – http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog
