Nov

2007)

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Tax Workers Scam Case Grows to $20M
Houston Chronicle - United States
The scam in the DC Office of Tax and Revenue began to unravel after a bank employee questioned a refund check for a corporation that the account holder …

Feds charge eatery owner in arson scam
Boston Herald - United States
By O’Ryan Johnson Federal prosecutors are charging a North End restaurateur with helping to set a fire on his property that killed his brother, …

Ukrainian eBay scam turns Down Syndrome man into cash machine
Register - London,England,UK
Hartman soon realized he was on the losing end of a scam that plays out regularly at the online auction house. In it, eBay accounts with immaculate user …

Hackers Scam Thousands with Bogus Anti-Spyware Offers
eWeek - New York, NY
That is not a literal sales pitch, but the end result of a multistep scam involving rogue anti-spyware that researchers at SecureWorks are warning Web …

St. Thomas warns of money-order scam
Pioneer Press - St. Paul,MN,USA
BY NANCY YANG The University of St. Thomas public safety department has issued an alert about a money-order scam making the rounds on campus. …

Weather Channel boss calls global warming ‘the greatest scam in …
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
By Our Foreign Staff The founder of the The Weather Channel in the US has described the concept of global warming as ‘the greatest scam in history’ and …

CID to probe Bhujiya fort land scam
Times of India - India
A criminal complaint was lodged after the district collector conducted an inquiry into the land scam and found that a huge plot near Bhujiya fort had been …

Phishing scam taps Salesforce data
VNUNet.com - UK
Salesforce.com has admitted that its customer database has been breached after a member of its staff fell for a phishing scam. “A Salesforce.com employee …

New Zealand man refused bail, to face extradition over British …
International Herald Tribune - France
AP WELLINGTON, New Zealand: A New Zealand national allegedly involved in a multibillion dollar scam targeting the Bank of England was refused bail when he …

The Minutemen’s fence scam
By David Neiwert(David Neiwert)
by Dave We’ve been reporting for quite awhile now about how the Minutemen have devolved into a moneymaking scam, fueled in no small part by Chris simcox’s PR makeover, which brought about a rift withing the movement once it became clear …
Orcinus - http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/

IRS warns of new email scam
By WISER(WISER)
The agency said the scam e-mail urges recipients to click on a link which opens on a fake IRS Web site. That site includes a link to a donation form which requests the recipient’s personal and financial information.” …
WISERWomen - http://wiserwomen.blogspot.com/

A Nigerian scam goes awry
By wadejolson
Details continue to emerge, but my previous blog quip on the Nigerian Intel Classmate PC situation now involves more visible allegations. At times like this, along with potential OOXML improprieties, I’m reminded of a consistent message …
Komandeering Developers Everywhere - http://wadejolson.wordpress.com

New Nigerian Email Scam Hacks Web-based Email Accounts
By Tom O’Leary
The New York Times reports about a new Nigerian email scam that sends pleas for money (on your behalf) to contacts in your web-based email account. “…Here’s how it works: The scammer somehow breaks into a victim’s Web-based …
The Messaging Times - http://www.messagingtimes.com/blog

OHIO - WHERE CHARTER SCHOOL SCAM STARTED - BEGINNING TO CRACKDOWN …
By TPR(TPR)
OHIO - WHERE CHARTER SCHOOL SCAM STARTED - BEGINNING TO CRACKDOWN AFTER MORE THAN HALF GET FAILING GRADES NY TIMES - Ohio became a test tube for the nation’s charter school movement during a decade of Republican rule

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