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March is the month of Tax Scams
f you get an unsolicited e-mail seeming to be from the Internal Revenue Service telling you that you’re owed an additional refund — but only if you provide some additional details — don’t believe it.
It’s a scam.
An e-mail some people in the area have received lately says they are owed a tax refund — and to obtain it, they need to visit an IRS website.
“After the last annual calculations of your fiscal activity we have determined that you are eligible to receive a tax refund of $63.80,” the e-mail says. “Please submit the tax refund request and allow us 6-9 days in order to process it.”
The subsequent website looks like an authentic IRS website — down to the IRS’ logo.
But it asks for the user’s Social Security number, credit-card number and ATM personal identification number.
So that should ring the bell..Read full article at http://www.thedailystar.com/news/stories/2006/03/08/scam1.html

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VCs get scammed..
All Bhatias are not related to Sabeer ..may be they wish they are but they are not..Here is the story..
According to the prosecutors, Lal Bhatia told investors that Bill Gates, Michael Dell of Dell Computers and Hotmail founder Sabeer Bhatia were investing in or purchasing his company ABE Technologies.
Sabeer Bhatia, who is not related to Lal Bhatia, testified at the trial that he had never even met Lal Bhatia.
The evidence presented at the trial also showed that Lal Bhatia falsely told potential investors a bogus multi-billion- dollar Swiss banking entity was backing him; he provided investors with forged documents to further his scheme.
Read detailed story at http://www.indolink.com/displayArticleS.php?id=030306041444

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Telemarketing Scam Shut Down
All Star’s owner, Pranot Sangprasit, and seven other people, were promoting nonexistent shopping sprees to pressure victims into providing checking account numbers and siphoning money from those accounts. The complaint alleges that All Star Access ignored the federal no-call list. The FTC also accuses All Star Access of changing company names and locations to dodge the law.
Read more at http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/7786045/detail.html
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BENT CHEATED
LIVERPOOL goalkeeper Jerzy Dudek claims Darren Bent admitted todiving to win a penalty during Charlton’s 2-0 win at The Valley on Wednesday.Dudek, making his first start for Liverpool since his heroics in the Champions League final against AC Milan last May, conceded the penalty when adjudged to have fouled Bent by referee Andre Marriner.But Dudek claims Bent had feared he would receive a yellow card as the striker admitted to diving immediately after taking a tumble.

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New Computer Virus Demands Ransom
The FBI is investigating a new computer virus that threatens to erase a person’s files unless they send money via Western Union, according to a Local 6 News report.The “ransomware” virus recently showed up on computers in the Portland, Ore., area with pornographic photos.
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Ferndale club was cheated, suit says
Super Bowl week at Posh Nightclub in Ferndale was supposed to be filled with glitz, glamour, celebrities, famous athletes and Michigan’s most beautiful people.Instead, club owners contend, they got a small turnout, Magic Johnson demanding money owed him at the door, and a promoter who skedaddled from a big, unpaid bill.
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The frustrated will to act for public good
IT is not hard to find an activist group willing to tell big business it does a poor job of handling society’s expectations. To find this view privately shared by a high proportion of business executives is rather more surprising.As many as 70 per cent of managers believe there is room for improvement in the way large companies anticipate social pressure and criticism, according to a survey to be published recently in The McKinsey Quarterly. Only 3.0 per cent of the 4,238 executives questioned in 116 countries think companies in their sector are doing a good job of this.
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Russian stock exchange hit by computer virus
The Russian Stock Exchange was suspended for nearly an hour on Thursday after trading systems were hit by a computer virus.
Moscow’s Russian Trading System (RTS) admitted on Friday that a computer was infected by a virus, which then carried out a denial of service attack on trading systems.
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Laptops for cash: Bargain scam no longer computes
Larry Orchard Smith has been offering folks who wanted a bargain laptop computer a deal that seemed too good to be true. And it was. Which landed Smith, 49, in a county jail.
Phoenix police spokesman Andy Hill said Smith would approach people in parking lots and show them a box with manufacturer’s stickers and packaged accessories. Also, he showed “what looked like a black laptop computer, wrapped in bubble wrap.”
After the buyer paid Smith $250 to $500 cash and opened the box, he would find “two pieces of wrapped black ceramic tile” instead of a computer.
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