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Extortion at funerals? That's low, even for low-life scammers
Watchdog with Paul MuschickWith this being National Consumer Protection Week, I'm receiving all sorts of tips about the latest scams and how to avoid them. This list from the Bucks County Crimes Against Older Adults Task Force includes one that's new to me...... -
The best way yet to proclaim love for a tax cheat
Ernst & Young LLP received the usual kid-glove treatment given to too-big-to-fail enterprises when it reached a settlement with the U.S. Justice Department over illegal tax shelters it sold more than a decade ago. The government chose not to prosecute the...Tags: Best Buy Co., Inc., Internal Revenue Service, Crimes, HealthSouth Corp, Corporate Crime
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Baltimore man, 81, loses his home following lottery fraud
The first caller told Norman Breidenbaugh he had won $2.5 million in a foreign sweepstakes, but there was a catch: Breidenbaugh needed to send $2,000 in fees before collecting his earnings. Other calls followed, promising Breidenbaugh millions more...
Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Jamaica, Lotteries, Alzheimer's Disease, Federal Trade Commission
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Broward sheriff's sergeant warns of FedEx email fraud
The email that claimed to be from FedEx looked real enough when it arrived in a Broward County sheriff sergeant's personal in-box. It advised that the deputy — who does not want his name used in this story because he works undercover — had a...
Tags: Email, Broward County, Viral Diseases and Infections, FedEx Corporation, Computing and Information Technology Industry
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Bel Air payroll firm sued for allegedly keeping clients' tax payments
A Bel Air company that handled payrolls for many employers in the area is being sued by clients for allegedly stealing years of tax payments rather than sending them on to the tax collectors as required — leaving the companies on the hook....
Tags: Personal Income, Internal Revenue Service, Harford County, Music, Politics
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Ireland: Plant sent horse labeled 'beef' to Czechs
DUBLIN (AP) - An Irish slaughterhouse has been caught labeling horse meat as beef and shipping it to a company in the Czech Republic, Ireland's government said on Feb. 22, in the latest crackdown on alleged fraud in Europe's month-old scandal. No...Tags: Environmental Issues, Belgium, Conservation, Chemical Industry, Tesco plc
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Con artists recycle old tricks, add a high-tech one
Michele Holota wishes she had never answered the phone that fateful day. If she hadn't, her computer wouldn't be fried right now. But when the phone rang and the caller ID said "Microsoft," she figured it might be important. What the caller told her...Tags: North Catasauqua, Microsoft Corporation, Jim Thorpe, Whitehall, Allentown
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Owner of Lynchburg-based peanut company among four people indicted for salmonella outbreak
A federal grand jury has indicted four people in a 2009 salmonella outbreak linked to a Georgia peanut processing plant. The indictment unsealed Wednesday in federal court in Georgia charges four employees with Lynchburg-based Peanut Corp. of America....
Tags: Peanut Butter, Defendants, Peanuts, Justice System, Corporate Crime
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Attention businesses: don't respond to solicitation for $125 from Pennsylvania Corporate Compliance Company
Watchdog with Paul MuschickI've received a lot of tips lately from alert Lehigh Valley residents about new scams and tricks targeting residents and businesses. I'll be sharing some in a future column, but this one can't wait. This warning comes via the Pennsylvania...... -
Earned Income Tax Credit A Subsidy Rife With Fraud
The Hartford CourantConnecticut's Earned Income Tax Credit, established at the behest of Gov. Dannel P. Malloy two years ago, is the height of fiscal irresponsibility and ignorance and doubled down on taxpayer-financed fraud already documented at the federal level. In...Tags: Personal Income, Internal Revenue Service, Politics, Science and Technology, Corporate Crime
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Is Herbalife planning a campaign against critic Bill Ackman?
This just got personal. Herbalife Ltd. has obtained the rights to domain names such as therealbillackman.com and billackman.net, a sign that the Los Angeles nutritional products company may be planning a public campaign against one of its biggest...
Tags: Mutual Funds, Corporate Crime, Herbalife Limited
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Business accused of operating 'massive pyramid scheme'
Attorney General Jack Conway and the U.S. Federal Trade Commission announced today they have taken legal action against Fortune Hi-Tech Marketing, an alleged global pyramid scheme operating since 2001 from its corporate headquarters in Lexington. The...
Tags: Finance, Satellite Technology, Consumers, Lisa Madigan, Justice System
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Feb 27, 2013
|Column| Allentown Morning Call
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