Scam Related News (11/15/2007)
FBI examines scam touted by Gold Coast couple
NEWS.com.au – Australia
By Anthony Marx THE US’s top law enforcement agency is investigating a scam promoted by a Gold Coast couple which netted nearly $7 million from about 85 …
Nigeria: N400 Million Scam – I’ll Step Aside If, Mark Tells EFCC
AllAfrica.com – Washington,USA
Senate President David Mark has said he is willing to temporarily quit office to allow his colleagues debate the report of the Senator Omar Hambagda led …
Man charged in alleged Pickens County scam
Tuscaloosa News (subscription) – Tuscaloosa,AL,USA
By Jason Morton ALICEVILLE | A Saraland man faces three counts of burglary stemming from an alleged scam operation he used to target elderly Pickens County …
Scam alert
Manila Times – Philippines
Another bomb, another scam. Instability is as instability goes; we don’t need to complicate our lives by giving in to greed or stupidity. …
Trial Begins for High School Scam Suspects
WCAX – Burlington,VT,USA
Some of the students accused of running a cheating scam at Hanover High School go on trial Wednesday. They allegedly broke into the school in June, …
Scam artists using puppy images to steal your money
9NEWS.com – Denver,CO,USA
KUSA – At least two Denver area residents say scam artists tried to get them to hand over cash in a puppy scam. In one case, scam artists placed a fake …
Manjari land scam: Anti Extortion Cell arrests notary
Expressindia.com – New Delhi,India
Pune, November 14 IN a major breakthrough in the multi-crore Manjari land scam case, the Anti Extortion Cell (AEC) of the city crime branch on Wednesday …
The Biofuel Scam
This is depressing….
Transterrestrial Musings – http://www.transterrestrial.com/
Russia: Bloggers Expose a Pharmaceutical Scam
By Andrew Young
Over the past few weeks thousands of Russian bloggers have united to combat a pharmaceutical scam that tried to persuade Russian pensioners to spend around half of their annual pension on a course of Gravikol 21 – ‘anti-arthritis’ drugs …
Global Voices Online » Human Rights – http://www.globalvoicesonline.org
Free Yolato Day is a Scam!!!
By Zach@MidtownLunch
Apparently Yolato, and their PR dept’s definition of “Free Yolato” is something entirely different than my definition. Free Yolato means that you are not charging money for Yolato… And yet today, I arrived at Yolato to find the cash …
Midtown Lunch – http://midtownlunch.com/blog
Shopping Ads IS a Scam
Shopping Ads shut off their beta on a ton of people, people who have earned money with them already, and now, won’t ever see that money. Read the full story.
Digg / news – http://digg.com/
EaterWire: Yolato Scam Coda
By BL
This was no scam. No one intentionally tried to rip anyone off. It was just a misunderstanding and no one has complained at the store to my knowledge.” All well and good, we suppose, but when an announcement is made of free yogurt on …
Eater – http://eater.com/
