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Avoid Internet Scams and ripoffs
Avoid Internet ripoffs and Scams Curated by Peter Mellow |
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Peter Mellow
December 13, 2024 7:14 PM
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Monica Poli spends her free time chasing pickpockets around tourist-heavy Venice and posting the action on social media. One of a 50-strong group of volunteers, she’s become a local celebrity but says she faces regular threats.
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Peter Mellow
December 12, 2024 4:52 PM
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An anti-establishment technology for an anti-establishment age
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December 12, 2024 4:30 PM
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‘Hawk tuah girl’ Haliey Welch’s coin fails amid new wave of hype around crypto-related assets
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December 10, 2024 7:24 PM
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He stayed at fancy hotels in LA, Miami and Las Vegas, dined at expensive restaurants, showered new acquaintances with largesse and indulged his penchant for sex workers and cocaine, but soon things started to unravel for Tim Alford.
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Peter Mellow
December 10, 2024 5:07 PM
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Staying aware, keeping your valuables close and employing “layers of security” are among the ways to improve your street savvy.
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December 9, 2024 5:29 PM
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A survey finds more than half of people aged 18 to 29 with a credit card sign up solely to earn travel rewards points, but 60 per cent are struggling to clear their debts each month.
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December 9, 2024 4:55 PM
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Italian cities have a major problem with petty crime – as I discovered when strolling the crowded streets of Venice recently.
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from Hospitals and Healthcare
December 8, 2024 4:26 PM
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Influencers posing as medical experts are exploiting the lack of easy solutions for PCOS by selling fake cures.
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Peter Mellow
December 8, 2024 4:20 PM
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Poor grammar, bad spelling, random punctuation and unrealistic, un-Australian terminology: all of this can be fixed, for a price.
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Peter Mellow
December 8, 2024 4:19 PM
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There’s a new scam doing the rounds this Christmas, and it’s a tough one to spot.
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Peter Mellow
December 4, 2024 4:44 PM
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Looking into a timeshare? Want to get out of one? Here’s what you need to know.
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Peter Mellow
December 3, 2024 11:56 PM
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Anne and a man she had met online messaged every day for weeks. Their chat history shows how scammers emotionally and psychologically manipulated her — and stole $46,000.
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Peter Mellow
December 2, 2024 4:23 PM
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Maryland resident Judith Boivin opens up to personal finance columnist Michelle Singletary about a government impersonation scam that cost her nearly $600,000.
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November 30, 2024 4:29 PM
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I stumbled on a profile with my picture as the photo. What was this man doing with my identity? I set out to track him down …
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Peter Mellow
November 30, 2024 4:15 PM
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With an unlocked phone in hand, the thieves had unfettered access to his finances and social media, allowing them to siphon away thousands of dollars.
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Peter Mellow
November 28, 2024 4:09 PM
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With so many retailers spruiking big bargains this month, we're easy targets for fraudsters looking to cash in on the frenzied spending.
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Peter Mellow
November 28, 2024 2:50 PM
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A night out at a concert; time to catch a cab home. But these taxi drivers want to scam everyone. Do they consider the danger facing those they leave stranded?
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November 27, 2024 4:15 PM
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For years he used fake identities to charm women out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Then his victims banded together to take him down.
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November 26, 2024 5:43 PM
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At first glance, Daisy could be your stereotypical grandmother: she loves knitting and talking about her family, has a cat called Fluffy, is technologically inept and has plenty of time to shoot the breeze.
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Peter Mellow
November 24, 2024 4:52 PM
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Exclusive: By buying identity documents, gamblers banned by bookmakers can create multiple bank and betting accounts in someone else’s name
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November 24, 2024 4:46 PM
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Des Healey lost £76,000 in a scam using a deepfake of Martin Lewis and Elon Musk.
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Peter Mellow
November 23, 2024 8:27 PM
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The social media giant said it deleted scam ads featuring the PM and targeting Australians, but within days they were back. Now the government is taking a closer look.
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November 23, 2024 3:59 PM
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Day-trading, sports betting, and crypto are about to get bigger.
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from Hospitals and Healthcare
November 20, 2024 10:00 PM
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They check the baby's position and listen to the heartbeat, but they aren't qualified midwives. Parents say a "dangerous" new breed of birth worker has emerged to fill the gap for women wanting to birth outside hospital.
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Peter Mellow
November 20, 2024 3:30 PM
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It is high time legislators made those who allow the peddling of this modern misery pay for their role.
