A federal judge in Boston yesterday sentenced a woman to nearly 51⁄2 years in prison after she admitted swindling advertisers and vendors out of more than $100,000 for a bogus bridal show, one of multiple scams she ran throughout the country. Read Article
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AIRFARES. You’ve already seen reports about the five rounds of airfare hikes the big lines announced just since the first of the year. Most final increases were a bit less than originally announced, because some of the big low-fare lines didn’t go along with the full amounts. But the fact is that fares this summer [...]
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Scammers have reaped illicit gains through bogus relief campaigns in the wake of the earthquake and tsunami that devastated northeastern Japan last Friday, police said, warning the public to be careful when donating, especially to sites on the Internet. Two Koreans were caught running an online fundraising campaign for quake-stricken Japan with a bank account [...]
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Sheriff’s deputies arrested four people last week on charges of selling counterfeit and duty-free tobacco in downtown Los Angeles. The arrests come on the heels of a bust in East Los Angeles, where sheriff’s deputies found people selling counterfeit cigarettes. The arrests led them to their suppliers, operating out of two stores on the 400 [...]
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I was stressed, rushing to make last-minute lodging arrangements for a three-stop writing trip to Europe, when it appeared on Craigslist: the perfect apartment for my first stop in London. A tiny studio in Notting Hill for just £45, or $73, a night. Read Article
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PEOPLE across the Vale have been warned against a directions scam which took place outside B&Q in Evesham on Wednesday (27). The incident occurred as a woman left the store in Four Pools Lane and placed her handbag onto her passenger seat as she got into her car. Read Article
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The cruise lines lead us to believe that if we buy travel insurance from them that we are covered in case we need to cancel our vacation. We believe we will get our money back. The message is clear: Buying travel insurance is a good idea and we can easily add that on to our [...]
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CAR cloning gangs are netting profits of more than €200,000 a month as recession-hit motorists seek out bargains in second-hand vehicles. A surge in sales of cars advertised mainly on the internet is providing a financial bonanza for gangs stealing vehicles and then ‘ringing’ them with fake identities before putting them on the market. Read [...]
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Police say Atchely is exactly the kind of woman California Facebook user George Bronk targeted. He admits using information gathered from Facebook profiles to hack into the e-mails of more than 40 women. Read Article
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Parents and children were alerted today to a Facebook scam involving fake modelling agencies. Leicestershire Police said the scam, using a number of social networking sites, appears to involve the fake agencies encouraging children to pose in their underwear. Read Article
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