Woman Makes Fake Banknotes

Fake banknotes created of computer paper and sticky tape were employed in a Wellington bar by a Palmerston North adult female who has been imprisoned for making the counterfeit $50 and $100 notes.

Tamara Karepa, 32, was accused of six counts of using counterfeited papers, two of breach of bail and breach of community work.

In Wellington District Court, Justice Peter Butler imprisoned Karepa yesterday for 11 months.

The justice said Karepa tried to use a bogus $100 note to purchase shoes in Palmerston North and said to police she had been given the money at the bank.

In Wellington, she passed on over $250 to pay for drinks before bar staff detected the fake bills.

Justice Butler said Karepa had previous sentences, and had been jailed before for like crimes.

Karepa's lawyer, Mark Lillico, stated she had scanned banknotes and then added sticky tape to imitate transparent films on each note.

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30% of NM Primary Votes Are Fake

“Today, news out of New Mexico, the state GOP looked at info for 92 newly-registered electors in one district, and found 28 had "missing or inaccurate Social Security numbers or birth dates. In some cases, more than one elector was recorded using the same Social Security number In others, people who the Republicans told had no Social Security number on public record were recorded." All of these are of persons who have already cast votes in the June New Mexico state legislative Democratic primary.”

Quoted from - http://campaignspot.nationalreview.com

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Anthony Morley, Who Ate Gay Lover’s Flesh Arrested for Murder

An erstwhile Mr. Gay UK was found guilty today of slaying a former boyfriend before carving flesh from his thigh, flavoring it with fresh herbs, frying it in olive oil and then feasting on it.

Anthony Morley, 36, cut Damian Oldfield’s throat before stabbing him several times after they went to bed jointly in April this year. He also left a Lloyds TSB bank card over a injury on his victim’s chest.

Morley, a chef, was apprehended after he walked into a takeaway food shop near his home in Leeds wearing a gory dressing gown and flip-flops and told staff that he had killed someone who had attempted to rape him.

As the jury returned a verdict of guilty, after debating for two hours and twenty minutes, members of the thronged public gallery cheered up and clapped. Morley clasped his hands and bowed his head and several jury members left the court in tears.

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The Presidential Library Scam

Acting like a four-year-old, George Bush has squashed his eyes tight and placed his fingers in his ears, arrogating that he has no approximation of who is chipping in the big bucks for his half-a-billion-dollar presidential library to be raised in Dallas. He says he doesn’t want his staff to say him the names of these special-interest givers while he’s still in office, as if his temporary ignorance can clean the malodor of such clandestine fundraising by a sitting president.

One of the canvassers for Bush’s ego temple unknowingly outed himself. Stephen Payne, a Houston businessman and sometime political arranger for Bush, was captured on video in July offering White House privileges to foreign interests in substitution for a suggested contribution of $200,000 to the library fund.

It is, of course, giddy to believe that George and his Oval Office managers don’t know who is funding his legacy library, but it is horrific that they want to hide this knowledge from the people. After all, the people pay millions of tax dollars each year to sustain these things. Yet, last year, at the bidding of the White House, Sen. Ted Stevens killed a bill to require revelation of such donors.

Not that this is a partisan cover up. Bill Clinton raised $165 million for his presidential palace, and he remains to keep his donor list inserted away in his vest pocket, safe from public scrutiny.

What are they hiding? If no privileges are being interchanged for these high-dollar donations, why not divulge them? Indeed, if the contributors are simply selfless souls with no self-agenda, wouldn’t they want their names colored on the walls of a presidential library?

By the way, there’s no requisite that every ex-president has to have one of these memorials – and very few deserve them.

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Alert - Fake Windows Security Center

Another scareware run is using an amazing misleading technique: A fake Windows Security Center.

Check out the pics in this CA Security Advisor Research Blog. This will not install itself unless you run. The fake security center is alike to the actual one except for the signature bad grammar.

The program goes as far as to block off outbound Internet connections in its attempts to get the user to download the "full" copy of WinDefender 2008. This Trojan is also quite hard to uninstall, partially because you can't download a lawful program to remove it. The nagging is so distinctive of scareware and so dissimilar to Windows that it may blow the scam, at least for somewhat knowledgeable users.

With this, as with most malware. once you run it you've fundamentally lost the fight. Don't run executables you don't know are secure.

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Dover Man Charged For Theft of Antique Pistol

A Dover home security guard is facing a theft charge for allegedly thieving an age-old gun, valued at roughly $10,000, from a Portsmouth mansion he was working at in May.

Scott Gagnon, 25, of 31 Mill St. in Dover surrendered himself to the Portsmouth Police Department on Monday as a consequence of an bench warrant that accused him with a Class A felony count of theft from a building.

Police say a probe by Detective John Peracchi keyed out Gagnon as the person who stole an antique pistol that has been found by police. The said theft took place in May of this year.

Portsmouth Police Capt. Janet Champlin said the weapon in question is an antique Flintlock pistol made by England's Ketland and Co., and it considered to date back to the 19th century.

Champlin said the gun was retrieved in good condition and can be most easily equated to the type of pistols people might come across in pirate films. She said it is a metal gun with a brown coloring on the side.

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Man Charged for Theft from the Elderly

Joseph Kelly Lecureux, 39, is accused for theft from the elderly. Authorities are charging him of attempting to take vantage of an elderly widow whose home was on the brink of foreclosure.

According to Marian Rosen, [the homeowner's] lawyer, the aged widow was suffering from dementia when she signed the deed to her home over to Lecureux, selling it for lower than 15 percent of its rate.

According to the FOX 26 video coverage, the widow's attorney filed a successful civil suit annulling the deed and restituting title to the home in the name of the widow. Sometime thereafter, local law enforcement authorities filed the criminal charges against Lecureux.

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Fake Paychecks Fraud in Watsonville

A large group of people tried to cash fake paychecks at two small businesses in Watsonville. One of them lost thousand of dollars while a perceptive clerk saved the other.

About 18 people lined up to cash their payroll checks at local store in Watsonville on Friday. It did not seem odd to the cashier because it was a common matter and cash checking is a usual service at the small stores of city neighborhoods.

But the cashier became suspicious after a dozen check were cashed, all from Sun Valley Berries, a Watsonville-based company. He called the company. The company confirmed that the checks were fake. By that time, the business had lost $400 to $500 for each fake check that was cashed.

"It's totally common. It wouldn't be unusual. Everyone got done working, all left the field together to go cash their paycheck," said detective Burton Iles of the Watsonville Police Department.

A second business also was hit Friday, but the clerk discovered the forgeries after noticing the second check that came across the counter had the same name and dollar amount, Iles said.

Source: Register Pajaronian, Watsonville, CA, USA

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$23 Million Theft of Gold Bullion from Hong Kong

Hong Kong Police arrested five people for the theft of $23 million worth of gold. Police arrested them from the 3D-Gold Jewelery Holdings Ltd, the company whose dead founder created a solid gold toilet.

A report was made to the police when a batch of gold bullion was found missing from the vault of a listed company.

After an investigation, police arrested three men and two women, aged from 45 to 68. All of them are employees at the company.

Source: Bloomberg, USA

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Web Hit By Hit Man E-Mail Scam

This is a new and funny e-mail scam. The e-mail scam sender declares that he is a hit man and someone has paid him to kill you.

The sender even lists the names of your dear ones. Even though the details lend an air of authenticity, authorities say many of the e-mails are not very sophisticated.

"When you open this e-mail, you feel a little bit more like it's specifically aimed at you," said FBI Special Agent Richard Kolko.

However, no one have been a victim to this but who knows about the rare person becoming a prey.

It seems that e-mail scams have no way left now!

Source: CIO Today, Woodland Hills, CA, USA

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Police Fund Anti-theft Software for Laptops

Nottinghamshire Police are now providing funds to install anti-theft software for people who live in theft hotspots.

The police force is paying for licenses for Absolute Software's ComputraceOne, which connects the company's monitoring centre to a machine every 24 hours, and every 15 minutes if it is reported stolen.

This will enable the police to track any stolen laptop that connects to the net.

The anti-theft software is embedded in the BIOS. So, if anyone reformats the hard disk the software can still do its work.

Other police forces, including West Midlands Police, have used the anti-theft software and have been able to return several laptops.

Source: ZDNet, UK

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Presidential Debate Scam

This is what Walter Cronkite, former CBS news anchor wrote in 1998, "The debates are part of the unconscionable scam that our political campaigns have become ... the candidates participate only with the guarantee of a format that defies meaningful discourse."

To expand upon Walter Cronkite's viewpoint the following articles may be very helpful:

The Presidential Debate Scam - The presidential debate scam - by A.J. Nomai

Presidential Debate Fraud - Pt.1 - US presidential debate is image driven fraud. Questions are restricted and unworthy of true debate. If you took the last ones at face value...

The Presidential Debates Are a Scam - Have you wondered why the presidential debates don't present any serious ideas or encourage any substantive exchanges about policy and political philosophy...

What are your thoughts about the Presidential Debates?

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Fake Bomb Art Removed in UK

The Ronaldsway Airport removed a fake bomb art from their exhibition. Although it was only an art and did not do any harm to anyone, it was removed after numerous people complained about it.

Local artist Krista Magee drew the piece. It shows a traditional alarm clock tied by chains to a kitchen timer stuck to sticks of dynamite. The timer shows the numbers 9/11 in reference to the terrorist attacks in the US.

Was it just to remove a work of art?

Source: Belfast Telegraph, United Kingdom

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Error Uncovers Credit Card Scam in Walmart

Wal-mart employees made a small mistake during the sale of a computer laptop. This led to the rather frightening discovery of a Valleywide scam that involved stolen credit card information.

The hint to authorities came about 4 p.m. Sunday when Wal-Mart workers got mistrustful about three men who claimed they had bought a laptop only to get an empty box, according to police spokesman Detective David Ramer.

When police officers came at the store on Arizona Avenue near the SanTan Freeway to look into the suspected fraud, the three men ran and threw a bunch of credit cards to the ground, Ramer said.

The 19 recovered cards, made to look like ones issued by banks in Mexico, turned out to be counterfeit cards that bear valid American account numbers. They were used to buy electronic equipment across the Valley, Ramer said.

Ironically, police said, Wal-Mart employees did unknowingly gave the men an empty box for the purchase they had made.

Arrested were Adolfo Paz Gracia, 35, Javier Carreno Cruz, 29, and Jose Diaz Valenzuela, 29. The suspects told police they are Mexican nationals who had entered the country legally to make purchases on the credit cards, Ramer said.

Each was booked on three counts of forgery and one count of fraud schemes.

Source: Arizona Republic, Phoenix, AZ, USA

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Beckham Housekeepers Arrested for Theft

Two housekeepers working in a mansion of David Beckham and Victoria Beckham has been arrested by the police on charges of theft. One is a 56-year-old woman while the other is a 55 year old man. They have been arrested from Essex, east of London.

Reports say items belonging to the LA Galaxy star and his wife, a former Spice Girl, turned up for sale on eBay.

The thefts occurred from Hertfordshire, north of London, where the Beckhams have a private mansion.

Source: Melbourne Herald Sun, Australia

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Massive Hi-tech Credit Card Fraud in UK Supermarkets

Detectives are investigating a sophisticated credit card fraud against customers of some of the leading supermarkets including Asda, Tesco and Sainsbury. Evidence point to Pakistan as the origin of the credit card fraud.

Fraudsters have targeted more than 40 stores in an elaborate credit card fraud scam. Police say tiny devices were inserted into the stores' 'chip and pin' credit card readers.

Specialists say the technology is the most advanced they have seen and is being used in supermarket chains across Europe. The devices, which are made in China, are reading and storing selected customers’ Mastercard and personal identification numbers as the cards are inserted into readers at supermarket checkout tills.

It is believed the bugs transmit the information via wireless technology to Lahore in Pakistan. Customers’ cards are then cloned and used to steal money from their credit card and current accounts and to pay for items such as airline tickets on the internet.

The scam was first discovered in the US and while there is no direct evidence to link it with terrorist activities in Pakistan, MPs here in the UK are calling for a full investigation amid growing evidence that terrorist groups such as Al-Qaeda are resorting to sophisticated technology to raise funds.

Source: Customer Strategy, London, UK

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Fake Bride Scam Fixer Women Arrested in Glasgow

Janet Cathie is a fake bride fixer who earned thousands by arranging fake marriages in a scam with African gangster. She was arrested by the UK Border Agency and Strathclyde Police.

The raid came after a series of articles by the Record exposed the huge fake bride racket in Scotland.

Cathie setup at least eight fake weddings. It includes her own, her live-in boyfriend's and her daughter's. She is suspected of having a hand in many more now not known.

She operated at tough Tarfside Oval estate in Pollok, Glasgow, rounding up skint single mums and drug addicts she could bully into signing up for fake ceremonies.

She charged £1000 from her clients for arranging the marriages. She also took a double fee by appearing as a witness at several ceremonies in registry offices in Glasgow and Paisley.

Some of the ill-fated women who were lured by promises of money received nothing. Cathie even paid her own daughter Amanda McCourt, only half of the promised £2000 wedding fee.

Cathie was a close associate of Lamin Manneh. He was an African who was jailed for two years at Paisley Sheriff Court earlier this year for operating a parallel scam.

Source: Glasgow Daily Record, Glasgow, Scotland, UK

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Astonishing Level of Fraud in H-1B Petitions

USCIS investigators investigated a a random sample from 97,000 H-1B petitions filed in 2005 and 2006. They reported fake signatures, fake degrees and the use of shell companies used in applications.

They also found out that 21% contained fraudulent information and technical violations of federal laws.

They reported that the violations and forgeries were higher among the computer professionals. 27% of the random sample they investigated had violations or forgeries of some sort.

Source: Computerworld, Framingham, MA, USA

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Air Bag Fraud - Toying with Life

It is an astonishing fact that some used car dealers sell cars without working air bags at all.

Lynette Loretto is a mother of three who lives in an Indian pueblo in Jemez, N.M. When she found out that the shiny yellow Chevy Cavalier she bought from a used-car dealer did not have working air bags she was frantic.

"I drove my daughters in that car a couple of times. ... If something were to have happened to us ... that would have been awful," Lorreto says.

An investigation by the Weekend Edition states that some unscrupulous auto repair shop have victimized customers by not replacing air bags that had deployed in a crash and that some used car dealers sell cars without working air bags at all.

In some cases, air bag compartments have been stuffed with beer cans, paper or packing peanuts. Sometimes the original, faulty air bag is just pushed back in. And sometimes the air bag isn't replaced at all, leaving the compartment empty.

In 2003, Laura Vega of Houston was badly injured and her mother killed when their Mercury Sable was hit head-on — and neither air bag worked. On the passenger side of their vehicle, the used air bag had been stuffed back in and the cover taped shut. On the driver's side, there was no air bag at all.

The same year, Damaris Gatihi, a 50-year-old nursing assistant who was going to school to become a nurse, died in a crash in Seattle. It turned out that the air bag in her used Toyota Corolla hadn't been replaced after a previous accident. Instead, the dealer who sold her the car had cut out the air bag and created a fake cover for the dashboard.

Quoted from NPR, USA

The next time you buy a used car be sure to check that you car really has working air bags.

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Philip Berg Sues Obama, Claims He is not Eligible For President

Veteran Democrat and a Philadelphia attorney, Philip Berg, is suing Barack Obama and the Democratic National Committee, claiming he is not eligible to be president.

Philip Berg alleged that Barack Obama in not eligible for the office of the President because Obama lost his U.S. citizenship when his mother married and Indonesian citizen and was naturalized in Indonesia. He further alleges that Obama followed her naturalization and failed to take an oath of allegiance when he turned 18 years old to regain his US citizenship status.

The lawsuit raises not only the Indonesian citizenship issue but also questions whether Obama was a citizen of Kenya.

So, is Obama a fake?

Source: 24ahead.com/blog

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