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Police Warn Fake Kidnapping
Law enforcement is warning of a spread of a cruel scam: fake kidnapping. One family encountered this first-hand and explained how it unfolded to CBS News. Larry Lutes got the phone call while he was at work. He said a
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UK Arrests Over Microsoft Scam Calls
Four people have been arrested in the UK following an investigation into scam calls from fraudsters pretending to be IT support staff. It follows two years of work by City of London Police and Microsoft, who teamed up to tackle
Read MoreCoachella – 599,802 breached accounts
In February 2017, <a href="https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/mgkzkp/someone-is-selling-coachella-user-accounts-on-the-dark-web" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hundreds of thousands of records from the Coachella music festival were discovered being sold online</a>. Allegedly taken from a combination of the main Coachella website and their vBulletin-based message board, the data included almost
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Home Depot, Menards Face Lawsuits
Home Depot and Menards are being accused of deceiving the buyers of four-by-four boards, the big brother to the ubiquitous two-by-four. The alleged deception: Menards and Home Depot market and sell the hefty lumber as four-by-fours without specifying that the boards actually
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Barclays Latest Fraud Charges
Barclays, has been charged by the British Serious Fraud Office, along with four of the bank’s former executives with conspiracy to commit fraud. The charges on Barclays came after a five-year investigation into the London-based lender’s fund-raising at the height of the
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CenturyLink Alleged Billing Scam
Former CenturyLink Inc. employee claims she was fired for blowing the whistle on the telecommunications company’s high-pressure sales culture that left customers paying millions of dollars for accounts they didn’t request, according to a lawsuit filed this week in Arizona state superior court. CenturyLink
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Justice of the Peace Court Phone Scam
The latest phone scam appears to be coming from scam artists pretending to be from The Justice of the Peace Court, calling their victims from an actual Justice of the Peace Court phone number with the caller demanding bail money
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Computer Mouse Movement Could Prevent Identity Theft
Researchers have now identified a new way scammers are taking your identity theft, unfortunately it’s by tracking your mouse movement, however this movement also catches those scam artists. One of the biggest issues with identity theft is that if a
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Missing Jury Duty Scam
You get a call saying you missed jury. You’ll be jailed, they say, unless you pay. A telephone scam holding innocent Florida County residents hostage in fear of being arrested is running rampant once again, according to the Manatee County
Read MoreExposed VINs (unverified) – 396,650 breached accounts
In June 2017, <a href="https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/car-thieves-everywhere-rejoice-as-unsecured-database-exposes-10-million-car-vins/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">an unsecured database with more than 10 million VINs (vehicle identification numbers) was discovered by researchers</a>. Believed to be sourced from US car dealerships, the data included a raft of personal information and vehicle
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