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How Chinese Gangs Made $1B From Scam Texts

Criminals use stolen credit cards to make fraudulent purchases, pocketing the profits

(Newser) - Criminal gangs based in China have raked in more than $1 billion over the past three years by bombarding Americans with scam text messages, according to the Department of Homeland Security. The messages, often posing as overdue toll or postal fee notices, aim to trick recipients into handing over credit-card...

UK MP: 'I've Hurt People by Being Weak'

William Wragg says he revealed colleagues' phone numbers after getting caught up in sexting scam

(Newser) - British lawmakers who may have been targeted in a sexting scam were urged Friday to go to police, after a senior Conservative admitted disclosing the personal phone numbers of some colleagues to an unknown individual who held "compromising" material on him. William Wragg, who chairs the Public Administration and...

Man Falls Ill After Scammer Tells Wife to Get Rid of Him

Roxanne Doucette, 64, investigated for attempted murder in Massachusetts

(Newser) - A Massachusetts woman is suspected of serving her husband poisoned soup based on text messages she sent to a scammer, whom she thought to be a soap opera star. Roxanne Doucette, 64, is being investigated on suspicion of attempted murder, according to a Townsend Police incident report. Her 73-year-old husband...

Is That Mystery Number a Scammer? Galaxy S7 Knows

Thanks to partnership with Whitepages

(Newser) - About to buy the new Galaxy S7? Your contact list just got a whole lot bigger. Samsung and Whitepages are announcing a partnership that packs caller ID, spam and scam detection, and even a nearby business search directly into the native dialer, reports Engadget . This means that an incoming call...

Guy Falls for Scam, Travels 1K Miles to Claim 'Lotto Win'

After 2 years of back-and-forth with scammer

(Newser) - Those of us with relatives who got really excited about that distant relative who left millions in a Nigerian bank account can just nod sagely here: A couple of years ago, an Indian man received a text notifying him that he'd won somewhere between $319,000 and $478,000...

Scary New Text Scam: Pay or Die

Don't panic, delete texts, urge Aussie cops

(Newser) - Get ready for a massive new wrinkle in texting scams: death threats. Australian authorities are hunting for crooks who are ordering victims via text to "pay up or die." The texts talk of a contract to kill the textee, who can undo the hit by paying $5,000...

20 Students Nabbed in NY SAT Scam
20 Students Nabbed
in NY SAT Scam
Nov 23, 2011 1:02 AM CST

20 Students Nabbed in NY SAT Scam

They were paid to take tests for others: Investigators

(Newser) - Twenty students linked to five Long Island high schools have been charged with being part of an SAT test-taking scam. They were accused of accepting payments to take the SAT and ACT college entrance exams posing as other students over the last three years. A principal at one of the...

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