Be aware: IRS doesn’t send e-mails about tax refunds
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- Be aware: IRS doesn’t send e-mails about tax refunds
- Anti-fraud site turfed offline after Joe Job attack
- Bringing out the truth
- LeBron’s admired in Shanghai too
- Mukilteo man held in alleged hacking incident
Be aware: IRS doesn’t send e-mails about tax refunds
Jacksonville Daily News – Oct 15, 2007
As you can see the e-mail you received is exactly what the IRS is talking about. And it doesn't stop there. In yet another scam the IRS is warning taxpayers in eastern North Carolina of a telephone scam. ne call was received in the 252 area code. Here's how it works: The con artist claiming to be an employee of a company representing the IRS states the taxpayer is entitled to “additional money” since the taxpayer paid his or her taxes “on time. ” The scam artist then proceeds to tell the taxpayer there is a “handling fee” and tries to obtain the taxpayer's personal financial information. Mark Hanson IRS spokesperson for the Carolinas said “Scammers are using tax refunds as a tool to entice taxpayers into providing personal financial information that could be used to steal the taxpayer's identity and money.
Anti-fraud site turfed offline after Joe Job attack
Register – Oct 15, 2007
UK hosts Fasthosts unwittingly played into their hands by temporarily suspending Bobbear. uk over the weekend in response to fraudulent emails. UK-based website Bobbear… uk domain much to the annoyance of site administrator Bob Harrison. “They [Fasthosts] took the website down on Friday morning without any warning despite the fact that I had notified them on Thursday that there was a massive ‘Joe Job’ in progress and that they would probably receive lots of unwarranted abuse reports” Harrison explained. “Since Friday morning I have tried via email and telephone to get an answer from them as to what was going on but I never received anything apart from the initial domain suspension notification. The spam emails which were badly worded and full of grammatical errors were coming from zombie machines – none of which were on Fasthost’s domain. The timing of the attack coincided with articles on a major new phishing mule scam with crooks posing as representatives of Draper Investment as part of a scam linked to two suspected fraudsters in Poland. Bobbear enlisted the help of Sophos and its contact at Scotland Yard on its behalf bearing fruit on Monday afternoon when the site was restored. “To have the domain go down so soon after a spam attack has hit the credibility of the domain” said Harrison.
Bringing out the truth
New York Sun – Oct 15, 2007
They have been trying to recruit people outside several of CUNY schools including BMCC and Baruch with their black suits and I strongly think somebody should stop them from lying and tricking young people into joining this company. I was part of it for a few days when a former member contacted me and told me his experience and it is then when I started questioning about everything my manager and upline said I started feeling nauseas from their theatrical scam tricks every time I went to their hotel meetings. Some may completely disagree with me when I say they do brainwash. And they put a lot of pressure on you to recruit your family members friends and high school classmates and friends even elementary school buddies… there’s a lot more things that Bradly Hope could have revealed to the general public but nevertheless I’m very happy and satisfy that Mr. Hope wrote about this scam which affects many people destroy friendships and of course leave many people broker than when they joined. People who’s still inside the company should never trust that list of telephone numbers of all your friends and their personal information your upline might do the follow up for you and without your knowledge. I know what I’m saying.
LeBron’s admired in Shanghai too
Akron Beacon Journal – Oct 17, 2007
30 1984 born in Akron to Gloria James. ”For the first years of his life LeBron is raised by his mother and grandmother Freda on Hickory Street in Akron” reads a caption. ”A milk crate hung on a telephone pole serves as the neighborhood basketball hoop attached by a few nails at whatever height the tallest available boy can reach. ” More basketball: Referee fined Former NBA referee Tim Donaghy has forfeited $30000 in restitution to the government under his plea deal in a basketball gambling scam. Donaghy who admitted to betting on games he officiated made the payment last month according to court records. Robert Nardoza a spokesman for the U… ”For the first years of his life LeBron is raised by his mother and grandmother Freda on Hickory Street in Akron” reads a caption. ”A milk crate hung on a telephone pole serves as the neighborhood basketball hoop attached by a few nails at whatever height the tallest available boy can reach. ” More basketball: Referee fined Former NBA referee Tim Donaghy has forfeited $30000 in restitution to the government under his plea deal in a basketball gambling scam. Donaghy who admitted to betting on games he officiated made the payment last month according to court records. Robert Nardoza a spokesman for the U. Attorney’s ffice in Brooklyn which is prosecuting the case confirmed the payment.
Mukilteo man held in alleged hacking incident
Seattle Times – Oct 17, 2007
” The crimes carry a possible prison sentence of 18 years. Elizabeth Henderson the assistant range County district attorney in charge of the economic-crimes unit said Ellis’ scheme was “fairly difficult to unravel. In the end the investigators said they discovered evidence that he committed the scam in at least three other states — Arizona Washington and Pennsylvania — since 2005. That evidence has been passed to authorities in those states but it is unclear if they will press charges. Few details were released about Ellis’ background or how he acquired his alleged computer expertise. A police source said he had a juvenile criminal record in Washington but he has never been caught in a similar hacking scheme. Neither Ellis nor the Bates family could be reached for comment.
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