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A female employee at a Wal-Mart store lost $1,400 in a telephone con game, after being told that she had won a million dollars in the "Canadian Lottery."
At least 28 "senior-level" employees in eight federal agencies have college degrees that are virtually meaningless, according to an investigation by the General Accounting Office.
The Better Business Bureau is warning merchants that an old phone scam is again rearing its ugly head. This one involves calls from crooks who claim to represent the phone company.
A man was sentenced to five months in prison for using 270 counterfeit Postal Service credit cards to buy $230,000 worth of gasoline at 203 different stations.