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Tag Archives: scams
Woman Accused of Soliciting Money for Fake ”Sandy Hook” Funeral Fund
According to the FBI, Nouel Alba, a New York woman, has been using her Facebook account as well as telephone calls and text messages to “raise money” for her nephew, a victim of last month’s school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut. She has no nephew in the school. She could face … Continue reading
Posted in Bill Bickel, Managing Editor, Current Criminal Justice Headline News, Editorials, News
Tagged fraud, mass shootings, murder, Sandy Hook, scams, shootings
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Friday Morning Miscellany: Three Things To Be Paranoid About
The Gift Card Scam: Why your gift card might not work Can Apple and Google Steal Your Personal Photos Right Out of Your Phone? Apparently, yes. Is This ”An Unprecedented Age of Censorship”? A columnist for The Economist — and author of You Can’t Read This Book — makes the … Continue reading
Posted in Don't Be a Victim, Polls
Tagged Apple, censorship, frauds, free press, Free Speech, Google, privacy, scams
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The Dark Side of the Internet: Nigerians, Google, and Pimps
What Happens When People Actually Fall For the Nigerian E-Mail Scam? We’re talking “worst case scenario” here… What Google’s New Privacy Policy Really Means to You: Does the article’s title, “The End of Privacy,” go too far? SexTrafficking.com: How pimps are using the Web to sell girls
Posted in Current Criminal Justice Headline News, Don't Be a Victim, News
Tagged e-mail, Google, Internet, privacy, prostitution, scams
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Monday Morning Miscellany (December 5, 2011)
Illinois Attorney Suspended For Seeking a “Secretary With Benefits” Hey, at least he was open about it, asking in the help-wanted ad for the applicants’ measurements and specifying in a follow-up e-mail that “as part of the interview process you’ll be required to perform for us sexually” The 1930s Called: … Continue reading
