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Phone Scam Firms Fined £450,000
(The Scotsman)
Six overseas companies which sent spam and scam text messages to mobile phones have been fined a total of nearly half a million pounds
Gas Card Scam Appears as Prices Jump
(KLAS-TV, Las Vegas)
Consumers receive a call from a company claiming to offer a discount gas card. You're told you can buy the card for a small one-time fee of $3.95. In return, you supposedly receive a discount anywhere from $5 to $10 every time you fill up.
Scam Artists Casting Bait via E-Mail
(Associated Press)
In one of the fastest growing scams on the Internet, con artists are sending out millions of "urgent" e-mails trying to get unsuspecting consumers to divulge personal information such as their Social Security numbers or the passwords for online accounts.
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