Karen Vasseur and her daughter Tracy tricked 374 US ladies into parting with around $1m, after setting up a fake dating site and pretending it was populated by single US service personnel. In fact, it was Karen and Tracy telling lies and begging for money. Read More >>
Featured comment by tw@panda:
"It'd make mugging a bit more painful. "Give me your card, pin number, index finger and right eyeball, or I'll stab you"" More »
Police busted a driving test examiner this week, accusing him of pocketing large sums of money in exchange for securing test success for otherwise dodgy drivers. Read More >>
Featured comment by gizmodester:
"LOL - And, have the DVLA / DSA ever decided to check the employees out who send out licences etc, up in west yorkshire - if your an illeagle immigrant..." More »
Paul Ceglia, the upstate New York wood pellet salesman who claimed to co-own Facebook with Zuck, was just arrested at home on fraud charges. AP reports He could spend his next 40 years in prison. If you're tempted—don't. Read More >>
You know how every other day a new science report comes out saying this and that gives you cancer? But then a day after it's revealed that the same this and that actually prevents cancer? Yeah. What the hell should we believe in? Who knows because scientists have just found that scientists lie all the time in their scientific findings. Read More >>
Featured comment by Gentleman_James:
"I must declare a slight interest here - I am a physicist and consider most of biology to be icky or trumped up botany! In my world we've harnessed fus..." More »
As we commented on yesterday, SurfTheChannel.com owner Anton Vickerman has been thrown behind bars, only now we've discovered he's set for a spell in jail for four years on account of conspiracy to defraud. Read More >>
Featured comment by A Prikklypear:
"Cheers! Just spent an hour or so reading it - totally worth it and the last few paragraphs about maintaining his pride and honour has brought a tear o..." More »
Making £35k a month from internet ads sounds like a dream come true, but in an age where sites like Facebook can bring in absolute millions, it's not the most impossible thing to do, right? Well, if you've been considering following in internet pirate Anton Vickerman's footsteps, it's time to reconsider, as the gavel was pounded down on his court-case today, with Vickerman receiving a prison-stay thanks to his illegal streaming site SurfTheChannel.com Read More >>
Featured comment by Sabashe_to_the_MAX:
"Yeah 60p isn't that much for a film. Problem is I usually have a film on as it helps me get to sleep, especially if I've been working right up to bed ..." More »
We all get them: scam emails that claim to be able to make us millionaires overnight. But why are they so terribly unconvincing? And why do they even admit to being based in places like Nigeria? A Microsoft researchers claims to have the answer. Read More >>
Featured comment by elliottpp:
""All of which makes me want to reply to some of these emails, just to annoy the scammers".
Allow me to introduce you to: http://www.419eater.com/
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Here's a clever idea from an enterprising fraudster. Kathleen Stepien bought items from one branch of Marks and Spencer, took them home, printed out a fake till receipt for a higher value, then got a refund at another branch. Read More >>
The ongoing public explosion of Olympus has taken a new turn, with Japanese authorities now charging the company and three of its former big cheeses with compiling fake financial documents. Read More >>
Featured comment by shava:
"http://www.sri.com/about/timeline/deafnet3.html
Email was so well-established in 1978, that they rolled out a national TTY program for the deaf bas..." More »
There's a super-threatening warning currently up on the main page of what used to be RnBXclusive.com, telling users their IP address is visible and that those who've previously downloaded titles from the site may face "up to 10 years imprisonment." Read More >>
Featured comment by djnattyd:
"Clearly our own police service don't realise that copyright infringement is a civil case, not a criminal one. Still, 10 years for illegal downloading?..." More »
Google has admitted that it's Adsense/Adwords money generating machine has once again been doing things it shouldn't, with ads for Olympic tickets, cannabis and fake ID cards found to be populating its network search results. Read More >>
Believe it or not, things are still capable of getting worse for Olympus. The crisis-struck camera company's latest shame comes via Japanese police and investigators, who have raided the firm's head office. Read More >>
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