Another DVD Scam Revealed

Another DVD Scam Revealed: " Another DVD Scam Revealed

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It was too good a deal to pass up: buy one DVD at full price and get five more for 49 cents each. So good in fact that two brothers answered the newspaper ad, not just once, or twice, but 675 times, using a different name with each order, according to US police.

'I wouldn't be surprised if someone manages to steal five or 10 CDs,' Det. Sgt. James Tilton, deputy commander of the Nassau's Crimes Against Property Squad, said of the relatively simple scam. 'But something of this magnitude ... '

Police estimate that brothers William Linsner, 29, of 72 Pond Rd. in Woodbury and George Linsner, 37, of 4327 223rd St., Bayside, bilked about 3,200 DVDs worth more than $60,000 from the music club which direct markets CDs, DVDs and videos.

The brothers then sold them on the Internet for $5 to $10 each, police said.

'Their motives were just monetary, for personal benefit,' Tilton said. "

Time Computers / The Computer Shop Scam

davblog: Time Computers / The Computer Shop Scam:
Time Computers / The Computer Shop Scam
The Computer Shop (formerly Time Computers) have never had a great reputation amongst techincal people in the UK. They might be cheap, but their build quality is shoddy and their support is appalling. Now Yoz Grahame points out another reason for not using them.
Apparently their systems come with a modem that is configured to only work with one ISP. You can only fix this by calling a ?1/minute support line and buying software to unlock the modem for an additional ?60. Yoz also links to a free solution to this problem.
I'm mentioning this in the hope that my high Googlejuice will mean that this page will appear high in the listings for anyone searching for 'Time Computers' or 'The Computer Shop'.
And, yes, I'm biased. I once bought a PC from Time. It stopped working after a couple of months and no amount of shouting at their support people would get it fixed. It's still sitting dead in my study. It won't even boot"

Shop scam nets �6,000

Shop scam nets £6,000: "Shop scam nets £6,000
by Neal Keeling
POLICE are investigating an elaborate scam which has left a businessman £6,000 out of pocket.

One line of inquiry is that conmen gleaned information from two parking attendants working in Salford, then used it to target their victim.

The attendants are employed by Car Parking System (CPS) which has a contract to give out parking tickets with Salford council.

It is understood they were aware the businessman wanted to sell his shop in Worsley and introduced him to two foreign men claiming to be entrepreneurs.

But it is alleged that after a sophisticated con the trader was tricked out of £6,000. It is claimed the pair of foreign buyers were introduced to the victim by the attendants and after inspecting his business, agreed to buy it for £155,000."

Green Bay Press-Gazette - Man gets jail for role in scams

Green Bay Press-Gazette - Man gets jail for role in scams: "Jereczek, of debt counseling firm, will serve 1 year
By Andy Nelesen

It was a day seven years in the making, but for Jeff Saharsky it was worth the wait.
Saharsky, a former owner of a Denmark machine shop, was bilked out of his business in a scam orchestrated by two men running Gates, Paul and Lear, a Bellevue-based debt counseling firm. One of the principles in that firm, Kevin Jereczek, was sentenced Friday to a year in jail and 10 years of probation for his role in the machine shop scam and other fraudulent business deals.
Saharsky was in court Friday to hear Brown County Circuit Court Judge William Atkinson issue the sentence. It helped bring another level of closure to a case that began in 1998. Saharsky and his family sought help from Gates, Paul and Lear because their business was on shaky financial ground. Through a series of loans and liens, Jereczek and his partner, Louis LaCount, took control of the company's assets and sold them off, keeping the proceeds and leaving the machine shop in financial ruin.
'I just had to be here today,' Saharsky said after Friday's hearing. 'I just needed it to be done. I needed to be here to see justice done.' "

ACCC freezes assets of US office 'scam'

ACCC freezes assets of US office 'scam': "ACCC freezes assets of US office 'scam'
Friday Jan 6 12:15 AEDT
The Federal Court has frozen the funds of an international office supply company based in the United States after the corporate watchdog branded its operations as a scam.
The court has ordered Florida-based L&L Supply to compensate customers and to undertake corrective steps to prevent illegal conduct from recurring.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) said the Miami call centre would target Australian businesses offering them packaging tape either at no cost or at very low prices.
The ACCC said L&L Supply representatives would tell its Australian targets that their father and owner of the business had died recently or that he had been a good friend of a senior executive of the target company."

News - Horncastle Today: News, Sport, Jobs, Property, Cars, Entertainments & More

News - Horncastle Today: News, Sport, Jobs, Property, Cars, Entertainments & More: "POLICE WARN OF CASHPOINT SCAM
POLICE are warning people of a scam targeting cash points in Lincolnshire.
During the past few weeks cash machines across the county have had devices attached which clones debit and credit cards.

The cloned cards have then been used by the offenders.

Police have not yet been able to recover the device but say such technology is usually 'quite small and unobtrusive.

It often looks like a thick strip of tape attached to the machine above the screen and keypad and will not be noticed unless the customer bends down and looks above the screen.

The offenders often attach a small video camera to the machine as well so are able to record the customer keying in their PIN number. "

New York Post Online Edition: news

New York Post Online Edition: news: "CITY DAY-CARE BIG'S 'SCAM'

December 8, 2005 -- The former director of the city's day-care bureau fired in September 2004 after the death of an infant was under investigation since June 2004 for cheating on his time sheets, officials disclosed yesterday.
Donald Nolte was charged in Manhattan Supreme Court with ripping off the city for more than $26,000 by claiming he was at his government job or out sick for 79 days when he was really working for a private consultant, Cicatelli Associates.
The consultant had a contract with the city's Health Department, the very same agency where Nolte was serving as the $85..."

The Daily Telegraph | Victims of SMS spam scam

The Daily Telegraph Victims of SMS spam scam: "Victims of SMS spam scam
By JOSH MASSOUD
January 02, 2006
UNSUSPECTING mobile phone users are being ripped off for hundreds of dollars a month via premium-rate SMS scams.
Touting anything from horoscopes to weather updates, the messages are being sent unsolicited to handsets at a cost of up to $3 each.
The Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman told The Daily Telegraph complaints about unwanted texts jumped from 132 to 1807 in the past year.
'The increase is due to the increased popularity of premium-rate SMS services and what appears to be a lack of regulation of these services,' the TIO noted in its latest report.
A TIO spokesman said victims were left with large bills for a service they believe they had not requested. "

The Sunday Mail - NEWS - PHONEY RACKET'S NUMBER IS UP

The Sunday Mail - NEWS - PHONEY RACKET'S NUMBER IS UP: " PARCEL delivery scam is being probed by watchdogs.
Royal Mail investigators and Trading Standards Officers have launched an inquiry into Parcel Delivery Services, run by Wrexham-based firm Studio Telecom.
The Welsh firm has sent thousands of cards across the UK offering delivery of a digital camera.
The card claims: 'Digital camera. To arrange delivery please ring our despatch line.' But callers to the 0906 number end up running up a �10 phone bill.
Premium rate phone line regulators ICSTIS pulled the plug on the �1.50 a minute phone number just hours ago.
Victim James Clegg, 47, of Clarkston, near Glasgow, said: 'These cards look just like the parcel delivery cards used by Royal Mail"