This page features a daily collection of links to articles about Internet scams (as well as some links to prominent scams of the non-cyber variety).
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Preying on battered confidence in the wake of a computer glitch that has affected thousands of Royal Bank of Canada accounts, someone is trying to scam personal banking information from Royal customers via the Internet.
A federal judge in Wilmington sentenced a Camden man to six months in prison and ordered him to repay three victims more than $50,000 he defrauded them of through the online auction site eBay.
When Deb Nelson got a collect call at 10:30 p.m. from the Otter Tail County Jail from someone saying only "it's me," she worried someone she knew was in trouble and trying to call her.
A new mail scam has seniors' bank accounts in the crosshair. An 89-year-old Concord woman was about to send a $26 fee to claim $1.1 million, which Mississauga, Ontario-based International Transaction Services claimed she had won.
The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department warned residents that someone posing as a representative of the police department has been trying to scam people out of money over the phone.