eBay scammer gets stung
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EBay scammer jailed
EBay scammer jailed
06/16/2004 08:20 AMZDNet UK Jun 16 2004 12:18PM GMT
Other News: eBay Scammer Payback
Other News: eBay Scammer Payback
05/15/2004 11:21 AM
Here's a fun story of eBay members turning the tables on a scammer.
eBay Art Scammer Sentenced To Four Years
In Prison
eBay Art Scammer Sentenced To Four Years
In Prison
05/27/2004 12:11 PMNot only is eBay a
PR
platform if you want to sell unusual items, but it's also quite
the scam platform, for those trying to sell bogus items. Years ago,
we wrote about the hype surrounding a painting that was being sold on
eBay. As the price shot up,
rumors
began spreading that the painting was by Diebenkorn. Of course,
it quickly came out that it was all a big scam, and the guy behind it
had some friends register a bunch of fake names to bid up the price of
the painting and then spread rumors about its origin. Now, that
scammer has been
sentenced to four years in prison - which seems a bit extreme
for lying about a painting on eBay. Still, it also raises questions
about how people value art. Shouldn't people value art for the work
itself, and not who actually created it?
Teen eBay scammer jailed for nearly
three years
Teen eBay scammer jailed for nearly
three years
06/17/2004 10:13 AMSal Wise, Philly eBay Scammer Strikes
Back!
Sal Wise, Philly eBay Scammer Strikes
Back!
07/28/2004 11:24 PMStung!
Stung!
09/09/2004 09:14 AMA swarm of new media stories on young George W. Bush's dereliction of
duty pops his heroic-leadership bubble.
RE: eBay Account Phishing with eBay
Redirect - Ebay fixed this + related XSS
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RE: eBay Account Phishing with eBay
Redirect - Ebay fixed this + related XSS
hole
03/31/2005 07:14 PMRager, Anton (Anton) (Mar 31 2005)
Agere Stung by 3G (Again)
Agere Stung by 3G (Again)
07/21/2004 09:28 PMUnstrung.com Jul 22 2004 1:22AM GMT
Stung By Sting
Stung By Sting
09/24/2004 03:52 PMA Fool misses a concert, but a restaurant comes to the rescue.
RIAA stung by court ruling
RIAA stung by court ruling
12/22/2003 05:37 AMSilicon.com Dec 22 2003 4:45AM ET
Wal-Mart Stung in $1.5 Million Bar-Code
Scam
Wal-Mart Stung in $1.5 Million Bar-Code
Scam
01/05/2005 11:34 AMPolice charge two Tennessee couples in a scheme to use bogus bar codes
at hundreds of stores in 19 states.
Brits stung by phone-charge Net fraud
Brits stung by phone-charge Net fraud
06/23/2004 02:19 PMZDNet Jun 23 2004 6:21PM GMT
Alligator Sellers Stung by Undercover
Cops (Reuters)
Alligator Sellers Stung by Undercover
Cops (Reuters)
07/08/2004 08:53 AMReuters - An alligator has been rescued from the
trunk of a car by undercover police who answered an
advertisement offering the creature for sale.
LA porn industry stung by first condom
fines (Reuters)
LA porn industry stung by first condom
fines (Reuters)
09/17/2004 11:55 PMReuters - The lucrative Los Angeles porn film industry is
reeling from news that two production companies had been slapped with
the first
fines for allowing actors to perform without condoms.
Scorpion Queen Stung But Eyes Record
(Reuters)
Scorpion Queen Stung But Eyes Record
(Reuters)
08/30/2004 09:54 AMReuters - A Malaysian woman holed up in a
glass container with 6,000 scorpions has been stung twice, but
is still determined to reclaim a world record for living with
creatures, an aide said.
France, stung by Libyan WMD deal, admits
US policies showing results
France, stung by Libyan WMD deal, admits
US policies showing results
12/22/2003 07:40 PM France,
stung by Libyan WMD deal, admits US policies showing results Ok.
Agreed. You don't like Bush. And the French government does not like
Bush. But here is what the French now say about Libya: [...] The
media, which have long criticised the US war and invasion of Iraq,
grudgingly allowed that that conquest had borne fruit in terms of
putting pressure on other countries Washington considers "rogue
states" or part of an "axis of evil"[...]
CFO, scammer?
CFO, scammer?
06/17/2004 06:34 AMUSA Today Jun 17 2004 10:53AM GMT
419 Scammer Gets Scammed
419 Scammer Gets Scammed
07/13/2004 01:48 PMScamming the Scammer
Scamming the Scammer
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P-P-P-Powerbook for a S-S-S-Scammer...
P-P-P-Powerbook for a S-S-S-Scammer...
05/16/2004 10:41 AM"I fought the scammer... and I won"
"I fought the scammer... and I won"
04/09/2004 09:09 PMTracking Down A 419 Scammer
Tracking Down A 419 Scammer
11/06/2003 06:12 PMThere are a ton of folks who, when bored, have decided to mess with
419 Nigerian email scammers. They respond to one of the spams at
random, and then either write up an article or an amusing webpage
about the experience. That was interesting the first few times, but
recently it's had a "been there, done that" feel to it. Now, a woman
in Connecticut has gone one step further. Instead of just emailing
with one of these scammers,
she helped to get one arrested. Good for her. Maybe others will
start doing the same thing, and it will help cut down on all those 419
scams. Of course, there are some risks involved, since Nigerian
scammers
are criminals and have been known to harm or even kill
people. So, while it may sound like fun, it's probably not worth
doing in all cases.
More DS Mock-Ups and the Worst Scammer
Ever
More DS Mock-Ups and the Worst Scammer
Ever
04/09/2004 03:55 PMJOEL JOHNSON -- More DS mockups: That would be very hard to hold.
[Thanks, Ali!] This one came from Joe Balardi (as well as a few
others). Joe Balardi is the worst scammer ever. Gizmodo has a bounty
out for the first Nintendo DS pics, right? We get lots of...
419 Scammer Charges Dropped
419 Scammer Charges Dropped
11/12/2003 03:18 PMLast week we had the story of how a woman who received a 419 Nigerian
scam email played along to try to track down the scammers. When
someone was sent to her to pick up the money,
he
was arrested. As was pointed out at the time, it sounds as though
this guy was just a courier and not the actual scammer - but, in
theory should be able to help authorities find the real scammers.
Instead, though,
they've
released him without any charges being filed - and without an
explanation. The woman who set up the sting is furious and claims
this is why such scams continue. Of course, if the guy really is just
the courier there probably isn't too much they can charge him with.
Even if they did charge him with some small crime for helping out, it
wouldn't do much to stop the scam anyway. Perhaps, in releasing him,
they're going to use him to get more information about the real
scammers.
Aus email scammer 'made A$5m'
Aus email scammer 'made A$5m'
10/31/2003 06:05 AMiafrica.com Oct 31 2003 4:52AM ET
E-Mail Scammer Gets Four Years
(washingtonpost.com)
E-Mail Scammer Gets Four Years
(washingtonpost.com)
05/18/2004 07:33 PMwashingtonpost.com - An Internet scammer who used e-mail and a
fraudulent Web site to steal hundreds of credit card numbers was
sentenced to almost four years in jail Tuesday, one of the
stiffest-ever penalties handed down for online fraud.
Porn Dialler Scammer Jailed
Porn Dialler Scammer Jailed
04/12/2005 10:08 AMAn Italian convicted of running a porn dialler scam has been locked up
on charges of fraud and virus distribution. The 39-year-old, who
hasn't been named, was also fined €3000 by a court in Milan. He had
admitted being behind a scam targeted Windows users.
It tried to trick users into running a virus (Voltan) which would
change their dial-up connection number to a premium rate one. It
worked by directing visitors to a site where they could download a
screensaver containing the virus. The premium-rate number used is
based in Aruba.
More than 57,000 minutes of calls were logged by investigators over
three days - which would have seen our crook benefit to the tune of
€104,000. But the scam was uncovered when he returned to Italy after
visiting Venezuela to try to negotiate extra telephone lines.
View:
The Register Coverage
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La Repubblica
Coverage (if you speak Italian)
Read full story...UK iPod e-mail scammer arrested
UK iPod e-mail scammer arrested
12/08/2003 11:41 AMMacworld UK
report
s that a 21-year old man from Cambridge, England has been arrested
in connection with a mass-emailing that led people to believe they
were being billed for an iPod.
"Fake spy" scammer goes on trial
(Reuters)
"Fake spy" scammer goes on trial
(Reuters)
01/16/2004 01:05 PMReuters - A barman accused of posing as a superspy to swindle more
than $1 million (540,000 pounds) from six victims in an
elaborate decade-long con game has gone on trial, charged with
kidnapping, beatings, threats, deception and theft.
Porn Scammer Gets 11 Years In Jail
Porn Scammer Gets 11 Years In Jail
05/11/2004 12:17 PMA scammer who signed up nearly a million credit card owners for his
$20/month internet porn site (despite many of them never visiting or
even knowing about the site) has been
sentenced to 11 years in jail. The police are still
trying to track down what happened to the nearly $40 million he got
out of the scam in order to give it back to the victims (many of who
will only get a portion of what they lost back). The article, though,
indicates that he got the credit card info from a bank who
sold
him their database of credit card transactions for all of their
merchant accounts for $5,000. Obviously the guy deserves to go to
jail, but I want to know what happened to the bank (and its employees)
that coughed up all these credit card details for the scammer.
Alleged U.K. bank scammer still at large
Alleged U.K. bank scammer still at large
06/24/2005 09:20 PMKaran Bahree, who allegedly sold information on U.K. bank accounts he
had obtained from call center contacts, remained at large a day after
a news story appeared about him in the London tabloid The Sun.
Alleged UK bank scammer still at large
Alleged UK bank scammer still at large
06/24/2005 06:55 PMBANGALORE, INDIA - Karan Bahree, who allegedly sold information on
U.K. bank accounts to a reporter from The Sun, remained at large a day
after a news story appeared about him in the London tabloid.
The Sun reported Thursday that Bahree sold a reporter operating
undercover information on 1,000 bank accounts. Bahree reportedly
obtained the data from contacts at call centers in Delhi, where the
information was sold. The Sun in its online edition, however, gave the
name of the seller as Kkaran Bahree.
Police in Delhi say that they cannot make an arrest unless there is
a formal complaint from either the call-center companies in India from
where the information was allegedly stolen or from the affected banks
or customers in the U.K. "As soon as we get a complaint, we will
arrest him," said a police official on condition of anonymity. Police
are conducting their own investigations, he added.
"From what I understand there has been no complaint registered with
the police here, probably because investigations are still going on in
the U.K.," said Kiran Karnik, president of the National Association of
Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM). " Until they have a
complaint, the enforcement agencies haven't much to go by at this
point."
NASSCOM announced Thursday that it would cooperate with law
enforcement agencies in India and the U.K. to ensure that those
responsible for any criminal breaches are promptly prosecuted and face
the maximum penalty.
However, Bahree denied the allegations in an interview Thursday to
BBC World Service radio, and said that he had given a CD to the
undercover reporter at the request of another person, without knowing
its contents.
Infinity eSearch, a Web services company in Gurgaon, near Delhi,
where Bahree is employed, has distanced itself from its employee.
Infinity does not have bank clients in the U.K., and does not handle
financial information for its clients, Rahul Dutt, managing director
of the company, told reporters Friday in Delhi.
Bahree has been with the company for three months and is still on
probation, said Dutt, adding that Bahree had been asked to give an
explanation about his alleged role in the scam by 5:30 p.m. Friday
local time. Bahree, who was not in the office Friday, sent a written
explanation before the deadline claiming, according to Infinity
officials, that he gave The Sun reporter a CD at the insistence of a
friend without knowing that it held classified contents.
Bahree was employed as a call-center worker by Daksh eServices Pvt.
Ltd., a business process outsourcing company in Gurgaon from 2001 to
January last year, before the company was acquired by IBM. He quit
under normal circumstances, according to informed sources, who added
that at the time he left Daksh the company was not offering financial
services.
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CORRECTED-The scammer who got scammed
(Reuters)
CORRECTED-The scammer who got scammed
(Reuters)
04/09/2004 04:13 PMReuters - Please read in fifth paragraph..."pleaded not
guilty"...instead of "pleaded guilty"
Teen Scammer Finally Tossed In Jail
Teen Scammer Finally Tossed In Jail
06/14/2004 09:21 PMBack in 2002, the SEC charged a teenager who had
scammed
people out of approximately a million dollars by promising them
that he would return 2,500% on their investment at an online casino.
Honestly, the most impressive part is that people believed him enough
to give him that much money. The kid is obviously persuasive. So
persuasive, in fact, that the SEC let him off with a slap on the wrist
after he returned the money and promised to stay on the right side of
the law. That didn't last long. Two years later he was
caught
trying to con a bank out of half a million dollars in a similar
scam. He, once again, promised huge returns by betting the money
wisely in an online casino. Now, he's dropped down to a more modest
scam, but will finally be spending some time in jail for
sellin
g stuff on eBay and never sending out the products he sold. For
this, he's getting nearly three years in jail.
Scammer nets 4 year sentence for
phishing
Scammer nets 4 year sentence for
phishing
05/19/2004 04:17 PMPhishing scammer sentenced to 4 years in jail. While the DOJ says this
sentence sends a strong message to others, phishing scams continue to
proliferate.
Internet scammer, using best-selling
fraud, gets 33 months
Internet scammer, using best-selling
fraud, gets 33 months
06/01/2004 05:19 PMAP via Newsday Jun 1 2004 9:41PM GMT
Habitual Scammer Auctioning Off Dinner
Date
Habitual Scammer Auctioning Off Dinner
Date
12/03/2003 11:06 AMA woman who apparently has left a long line of scams and crimes
(including driving over her mother) in her wake, and who is wanted in
many places, is apparently trying to
auction off a dinner date on eBay
at a "mystery location", where she claims she'd tell the stories of
her various scams and crimes. eBay has taken the auction down, but
not because of the nature of the auction, but because the woman also
was trying to sell her own book separately within the same auction -
and eBay frowns on you trying to offer two separate deals in a single
auction. Of course, police say most of the "stories" you might hear
from this woman are made up. You also have to wonder if the woman
would ever actually show up. Among her many, many scams, she's been
accused of selling stuff on eBay and not delivering the goods.
Police Charity Scammer Gets Prison Time
Police Charity Scammer Gets Prison Time
12/16/2003 11:11 PMReuters via Wired News Dec 16 2003 10:31PM ET
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