Scam articles

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  Airbnb is cashing in on the Olympics, and why that's a good thing

  By Aaron Souppouris on July 27, 2012 06:40 am + 15 comments

  Airbnb, an online service that facilitates the short-term rental of rooms, houses, apartments, and Continue reading…

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  Rhode Island repeals online lying law amid First Amendment concerns

  By Louis Goddard on June 28, 2012 10:12 am + 3 comments

  The Rhode Island state legislature voted earlier this month to repeal a 23-year-old law Continue reading…

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  Microsoft researcher asks 'Why do Nigerian scammers say they are from Nigeria?'

  By Kimber Streams on June 20, 2012 01:27 pm + 62 comments

  Microsoft researcher Cormac Herley seeks to answer one of the basic questions of internet life in Continue reading…

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  Google banned 134 million 'scam ads' in 2011

  By Andrew Webster on May 25, 2012 01:53 pm + 6 comments

  Google makes the majority of its revenue from advertising, but the company is engaged in a seemingly Continue reading…

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  Scamworld: 'Get rich quick' schemes mutate into an online monster

  By Joseph L. Flatley on May 10, 2012 10:32 am + 1028 comments

  On a warm summer day in 2002, in Charlevoix, Michigan, Richard Joseph’s bad luck began. The Continue reading…

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  Fake Kickstarter project 'Mythic' uncovered by internet users, forced to shut down

  By Bryan Bishop on April 30, 2012 08:54 pm + 31 comments

  Online crowd-source funding site Kickstarter continues to break new funding records, so it's no Continue reading…

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  iTunes and Amazon royalty payments used to steal £500,000 by British gang

  By Jamie Keene on March 30, 2012 07:36 am + 17 comments

  Members of a British gang who generated more than £500,000 (almost $800,000) in fraudulent Continue reading…

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  Megaupload users face fake settlement requests, but MPAA says it's not keeping data to sue users

  By Adi Robertson on March 21, 2012 08:40 pm + 7 comments

  Megaupload may be gone, but its users are just starting to feel the pressure of potential legal Continue reading…

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  Samsung fined for obstructing Korean government price fixing investigation

  By Andrew Webster on March 19, 2012 10:10 am + 29 comments

  Samsung is among the companies being fined for price fixing in the handset space, and now the Korean Continue reading…

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  Samsung, LG fined by Korean government for handset price fixing

  By Dieter Bohn on March 16, 2012 01:56 am + 6 comments

  Price fixing amongst large Korean technology companies is apparently a fad now. First, we had large Continue reading…