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Thousands of people - including many seniors - fall for scams by callers pretending to be from the IRS or utility companies seeking payments and threatening arrest. 
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With new Ebola cases or deaths now occurring daily, scammers are hoping to bank on the public’s fear, offering all kinds of products marketed as the latest Ebola cure.
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It's your lucky day! You've been awarded a grant from the U.S. government and you didn't have to do anything to get it. You didn't even have to apply.
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Two men and a woman suspected in a nationwide phone scam in which they posed as auditors to steal money were arrested Thursday on East Tahquitz Canyon Way in Palm Springs, police said.
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The last two scam columns have been devoted to scams based on fear. The last column discussed scams based on fear of legal or governmental action.
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Scam artists are at it again, preying on the elderly promising them a lump sum of money.
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A firm that guaranteed senior citizens monthly returns on their investment based on profits earned from trading allegedly never traded but rather misappropriated more than $1 million of the pool participants’ funds.
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An alleged scammer who prosecutors say posed as two men credited with helping to launch Facebook now faces some serious charges.
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With a trial scheduled for Dec. 1 in Conroe, Tex., the district attorney asked for a new judge to preside over the Vikings running back’s case.
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How would you like to be the assistant to a MAJOR Hollywood producer? You can get the job now by going online. You will receive a job offer…
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Last week, Jerry Brown, the governor of California, signed a bill authorizing a million dollars to, as NPR puts it, “deploy a small army of inspectors to farmers markets around the state.” This is following a few well-publicized incidents of farmers market fraud, or FMF (as nobody calls it).
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Limbaugh's latest conspiracy is really something.
Anonymous Hades's insight:
No radio talk show host is less worthless to his corporate sponsors than the village idiot of mainstream media: Rush Limbaugh. Watch his formerly faithful corporate followers flee from sight after this last diatribe as Limbaugh's ratings "rush" headlong into the abyss of broadcast oblivion. The Armed Forces Network should put a boot to Rush's backside and send him packing. Limbaugh's continuing presence on AFN is an affront to loyal Americans from sea to shining sea, because the man doesn't seem to know or care about the difference between honor and disgrace.
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A new telemarketing scam, timed for Medicare open enrollment, targets seniors with offers of free stuff.
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It’s a case of grand theft house. A Manhattan woman claims an ex-con stole her family home in Queens by filing a phony deed with the city and moving in. Now Jennifer Merin is battling in court to r...
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TAMPA — Chris Vazquez had a warning for the guy who sold him the concert tickets.
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The drug maker AbbVie disclosed on Tuesday evening that its board plans to reconsider recommending that shareholders vote in favor of its $54 billion takeover of its Irish counterpart Shire.
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An Ohio man has been charged with selling counterfeit tickets to a Luke Bryan concert, and police believe there are more victims.
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NEW YORK (AP) — A once high-flying stockbroker who admitted conning the producers of Broadway's 'Rebecca' was sentenced Friday to nearly three years in prison as one of the show's top producers looked on.'I wanted to look him in the eye.
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Those who fly high when a scam is going around are the first to crash and burn when the bust goes down.
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BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) -- A former Connecticut state trooper was sentenced Friday to a year in prison for stealing $3,700 in cash and a gold crucifix from a dying accident victim.
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On September 9th, the Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp accused the New Georgia Project , which was having great success registering minority voters, of voter fraud. The SoS office served them ...
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A man who targeted church groups across Georgia pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court to defrauding hundreds of victims of their retirement savings.
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From
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A scam that started ripping off taxpayers last year is spreadin. Here's how to avoid it.
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Four people from the Philadelphia area were charged in August with stealing thousands of dollars from senior citizens throughout the country in what’s known as the “Grandparents Scam.”
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Mohamad Abduljaber was sentenced in federal court to 3½ years in prison
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Lionel Messi is set to face trial in an alleged tax fraud after his appeal against being named in the case was rejected by a judge in Barcelona
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