Posts Tagged ‘Scam’

PAYMENT OF US$800,000.00 INTEREST INTO YOUR ACCOUNT:

Yes, it is true. As the following email states I am about to have $800,000 of someone else’s money deposited into my account!!!!!

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Man accused of trying to scam immigrant kin

(02-18) 10:22 PST SAN FRANCISCO — A Redwood City man has been accused of posing as a federal agent and threatening to deport his immigrant relatives if they didn’t pay him $50,000, court records show.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/02/19/BABT1605K3.DTL

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CIA Agent Pleads Guilty to Defrauding Covert Credit Cards

By Kevin Poulsen February 06, 2009 | 4:41:53 PMCategories: Spooks Gone Wild  

A 16-year veteran of the CIA pleaded guilty Thursday to a federal fraud charge after using undercover agency credit cards to run up $75,000 in personal expenses, including costly hotel stays and a $700 watch.
Steven J. Levan, 48, worked as a case agent at [...]

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Restaurant manager accused of stealing customers identity

By Michelle Durand
from the Daily Journal

The manager of Roti, an Indian bistro in downtown Burlingame, stole identifying information from restaurant customers and used it to buy gift cards and other items from his wife who worked at a South San Francisco Safeway store, according to prosecutors.
Atin Singh, 23, and Iris Singh, 27, of South [...]

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Teen accused of sex assaults in Facebook scam

By CARRIE ANTLFINGER, Associated Press Writer Carrie Antlfinger, Associated Press Writer – Thu Feb 5, 6:28 am ET

MILWAUKEE – An 18-year-old male student is accused of posing as a girl on Facebook, tricking at least 31 male classmates into sending him naked photos of themselves and then blackmailing some for sex acts.
“The kind of manipulation that occurred here is really [...]

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Global ATM Caper Nets Hackers $9 Million in One Day | Threat Level from Wired.com

y Kevin Poulsen February 03, 2009 | 2:43:39 PMCategories: Crime
A carefully coordinated global ATM heist last November resulted in a one-day haul of $9 million in cash, after a hacker penetrated a server at payment processor RBS WorldPay, New York’s Fox 5 reports.
RBS WorldPay announced on December 23 that they’d been hacked, and personal information [...]

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