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Of course. After all, it's not as if anyone is going to stop them! They crashed the world economy and got nothing more than a couple of taps on the wrist, so why wouldn't they do this? California Attorney General Kamala Harris, who filed suit against...
From: Crooks and Liars | By: Susie Madrak | Saturday, May 18, 2013
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For some reason, the world is enthralled with the idea of the impostor. They’re sneaky, deceitful, and devoid of morals—but dang it, they do it with style. For example, one of the most famous impostors in recent history is Frank Abagnale, inspiration...
From: Listverse | By: JFrater | Sunday, May 19, 2013
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Common scams include the fake landlord and the 'free' prize; frequent victims include children.
From: St. Louis Post-Dispatch | Saturday, May 18, 2013
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We are not experts and any and all things paranormal, but perhaps auras are a thing, and perhaps it is possible for one person to repair another’s aura and prevent bad things from happening to them. However, it seems unlikely to us that it’s possible...
From: Consumerist | By: Laura Northrup | Friday, May 17, 2013
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Author/photographer Tom Carter has gone on record about “getting his start” in China through the Beijinger. He answered a job ad in the back of the February 2004 issue, after the Craigslist ad he originally responded to – and flew out all the way...
From: The Beijinger | By: thebeijinger | Saturday, May 18, 2013
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When a man in work clothes showed up at her door, the Monitor's Europe bureau chief let him inside. But fortunately, he didn't get a chance to pull off a well-known Parisian scam....
From: Christian Science Monitor | Friday, May 17, 2013
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Yes, Mitch McConnell. IRS bureaucrats targeting "tea party"-related groups is a conspiracy. Everything is a conspiracy. Everything is a conspiracy meant to distract from all the other conspiracies, and everything is orchestrated by the top mastermind...
From: Daily Kos | By: Hunter | Sunday, May 19, 2013
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Donald Trump accused her of playing the “age card.” But 87-year-old Jackie Goldberg demonstrated an uncanny recollection of detail that Trump himself couldn’t match when she took the stand in Chicago’s federal court Friday afternoon. Goldberg...
From: Chicago Sun-Times | By: Editor | Friday, May 17, 2013
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Tau Zero’s founding architect (and the former head of NASA’s Breakthrough Propulsion Physics project) weighs in on the kind of technology we see in the new Star Trek movie and ponders what it would take to make at least some of it real. by Marc Millis...
From: Centauri Dreams | By: Paul Gilster | Friday, May 17, 2013
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From: FAIL Blog | Friday, May 17, 2013
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The news from Clackamas County
From: OregonLive | By: The Oregonian | Friday, May 17, 2013
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With the TMC govt stepping into the third year of its rule, it is facing its biggest challenge amid the multi-crore chit fund scam.
From: The Economic Times | Sunday, May 19, 2013
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Operators of two alleged tech support scams that charged consumers hundreds of dollars to supposedly fix their computers have settled charges from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.Mikael Marczak, doing business as Virtual PC Solutions, and Sanjay Agarwalla...
From: PC World | By: Grant Gross, IDG News Service | Friday, May 17, 2013
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On Internet dating sites he keeps showing up in different guises; it's getting creepy and scary    ...
From: Salon.com | Friday, May 17, 2013
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The Center for Copyright Information -- a company established by the RIAA, MPAA and various ISPs -- to oversee the American six-strikes copyright enforcement status has had its company status revoked and faces fines and other penalties. It appears that...
From: Boing Boing | By: Cory Doctorow | Friday, May 17, 2013
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LEFTY OUTFITS SEEM BIG ON OTHER PEOPLE PAYING TAXES, BUT . . . Google insider exposes ‘immoral’ tax scam.
From: Instapundit | By: Glenn Reynolds | Sunday, May 19, 2013
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The congressional Republicans are outraged by the IRS story, but they haven't been able to scramble to the floor of the House quickly enough to target left-leaning groups.
From: Huffington Post | By: Bob Cesca | Thursday, May 16, 2013
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As much as I appreciate genre fiction, I have to confess a definite ebb and flow in my appreciation for Orphan Black. Buoyed by pre-broadcast praise (from Todd, among others), I was suitably impressed with the tantalizingly enigmatic setup: Street-smart...
From: A.V. Club | Sunday, May 19, 2013
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A FORMER Google executive has blown the whistle on a massive and “immoral” tax avoidance scheme that has “cheated” British taxpayers out of hundreds of millions of pounds over the past decade. Barney Jones, 34, who worked for the internet search...
From: Free Republic | By: thesundaytimes.co.uk/ | Sunday, May 19, 2013
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Former prime minister Raja Pervez Ashraf appeared before the NAB and submitted a written statement over the Rental power plant cases....
From: Dawn | By: DAWN.COM | Friday, May 17, 2013
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Scammers are trying to lure consumers into giving up their personal information by claiming they have been selected to be among the first to receive insurance cards through the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare.
From: Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel | Saturday, May 18, 2013
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Real estate news and views from around the globe that make you go, "Really?" A $600000 phone bill? St. Peters real estate agent says it's not her fault -- St. Louis Post-Dispatch Ariel Castro's Cleveland Home Becomes a 'Tourist Destination' -- AOL...
From: Orange County Register | By: By JEFF COLLINS | Friday, May 17, 2013
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Many of our North Texas neighbors are grieving today over loss of life, devastation of property and major disruptions of their communities that will take a long time to repair and perhaps even longer to heal.The series of storms that passed through the...
From: Fort Worth Star-Telegram | Thursday, May 16, 2013
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FORT WAYNE, Ind. - Northeastern Indiana authorities have charged 21 people in a welfare fraud scam alleging that they illegally exploited welfare benefits to stock a Fort Wayne restaurant's pantry shelves.
From: Indianapolis Star | Saturday, May 18, 2013
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In the beginning, there was TheStreet.com and virtually everything posted there contained a buy or a sell call, an investment idea or a trade. And [...]
From: The Reformed Broker | By: Joshua M Brown | Saturday, May 18, 2013
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The majority of Bulgarians admire the actions of the Prosecutor's Office in the seizing of 350 000 illegally printed ballots ahead of the May 12 general elections, according to a recent poll. The poll has been conducted by Sova Harris through phone...
From: Novinite | Saturday, May 18, 2013
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The Brussels judicial authorities are investigating a large-scale scam involving fake 1 and 2 euro coins. That's according to a report in De Tijd. It turns out that tonnes of counterfeit coins from China were seized during the last couple of months.
From: Flanders News | By: deredactie.be - Vrt | Saturday, May 18, 2013
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SEATTLE Phishing continues to plague Internet users. Wal-Mart on Thursday issued an alert about an email phishing scam, recognizable by the misspelling in the from field -- "Wallmart," spelled with with two Ls. Phishers rely on social engineering to...
From: Arizona Republic | By: Byron Acohido | Saturday, May 18, 2013
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The finance standing committee of Parliament is likely to recommend scrapping of the Chit Fund Act, 1982, as the existing web of state and central regulations is so porous that preventing a Saradha-type scam was next to impossible.
From: Times of India | Friday, May 17, 2013
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The Tea Party is the absolute worst party in American history. It’s just like every sequel — the first one is totally awesome and brings about the creation of a new country, and the second one is Hangover 2. The Tea Party Nouveau is just like that!...
From: Wonkette | By: DDM | Friday, May 17, 2013
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Thank god I don't live in this guy's neighborhood.
From: Barstool Sports New York | By: JMac | Friday, May 17, 2013
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CBI on Friday night arrested its own SP, who was heading the coalgate probe team, an inspector and two others for allegedly taking a bribe of Rs 7 lakh from a businessman
From: Times of India | Friday, May 17, 2013
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Two Sanford brothers arrested this week bought and sold an estimated $1 million in stolen power tools from the U.S. Army and plotted to rip off the government for military equipment, including armor-piecing ammunition, federal officials say.    ...
From: Orlando Sentinel | By: By Jerriann Sullivan, Orlando Sentinel | Friday, May 17, 2013
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If you’re interested in seeing the Rita Ora wardrobe malfunction, then you should proceed with extreme caution. Although the clip in question surfaced last year, apparently Facebook scammers are using your desire to see the singer’s naughty bits...
From: The Inquisitr | By: Todd Rigney | Friday, May 17, 2013
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A judge ordered Safieh Fard to serve 63 months in prison and pay $549,000 to the IRS.
From: San Diego Union-Tribune | By: | Friday, May 17, 2013
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Over the past few months, San Francisco law enforcement has tightened the screws on the ghost scams, in which teams of con artists steal elderly ladies' money by tricking them into thinking a spi...
From: SF Weekly | By: Albert Samaha | Friday, May 17, 2013
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by Logan Sachon This email showed up in my inbox yesterday. At no point was I tempted to send this person money, but until the, oh, third paragraph (“There are two options by which this transaction can be delivered.”), I definitely was thinking about...
From: The Billfold | By: Logan Sachon | Friday, May 17, 2013
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It’s tough enough to grow a business without people ripping you off. Here are four simple ways to protect your business from fraud. Small business owners know that it takes lot of hard work to build a successful business. You most likely read this...
From: Time | By: Lauren Simonds | Friday, May 17, 2013
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Months after Tim Dog’s reported death, there seems to be some folks out there who think the rapper faked his own passing. One of his past scam victims, Esther Pilgrim, did some investigating into what really happened to Tim. She went ahead and hired...
From: MissInfo.tv | By: Mikey Fresh | Friday, May 17, 2013
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"A recent news story claims that Tim Dog 'may be up to his biggest scam yet'—faking his own death. WREG in Memphis interviewed Esther Pilgrim, one of the women featured in this Dateline story back in June of last year, who had been one of many victims...
From: The Awl | By: Dave Bry | Friday, May 17, 2013
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Scammers are trying to lure consumers to give up their personal information by claiming they have been selected to be among the first to receive insurance cards through the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare.
From: Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel | Friday, May 17, 2013
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The US based airlines participate in the onward ticket scam, it's best to avoid flying out of or transiting the US by air....
From: Lonely Planet | Friday, May 17, 2013
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Authorities are warning of a scam by someone pretending to be “jury duty coordinators.” Residents in Oklahoma and other states have reported getting the calls questioning them about jury duty summons.Read more on NewsOK.com...
From: NewsOK | Friday, May 17, 2013
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"Best prank ever" indeed Jim Halpert's final scam on Dwight Schrute was also the series' biggest pay[...]
From: Rolling Stone | Friday, May 17, 2013
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Bulgaria's formerly-ruling, centrist GERB Party will refer to the Chief Prosecutor, CEC, OSCE, PASE, the EC, the EP, and the three main European Parties – EPP, PES, and ALDE tipoffs for vote buying committed by the ethnic Turkish party, DPS. The Citizens...
From: Novinite | Friday, May 17, 2013
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In its quest to identify the owner of a file-sharing site, Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN pressured one of the largest banks in the Netherlands to hand over his or her personal details. In a decision this morning the Amsterdam Court said that while BREIN...
From: TorrentFreak | By: Andy | Friday, May 17, 2013
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New Hampshire residents take the "Live Free or Die" slogan on their license plates seriously. Municipal governments use every shady trick to squeeze revenue from the citizenry, but Hampshiremen are fighting back. The bureaucrats are in enough lather...
From: Washington Times | By: THE WASHINGTON TIMES | Friday, May 17, 2013
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A few months ago, I wrote a story for The American Prospect about the credit rating agencies, and their thus-far successful effort to ward off any change to their business model, despite their wretched performance during the crisis. This is true even...
From: Naked Capitalism | By: David Dayen | Friday, May 17, 2013
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Tamil Nadu Police today conducted searches in various locations in the city in connection with betting and fixing relating to IPL matches.
From: The Economic Times | Friday, May 17, 2013
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