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Miles for Nothing: How the Government Helped Frequent Fliers Make a Mint
Scott McCartney reveals another government-funded scam for the Wall Street Journal: Enthusiasts of frequent-flier mileage have all kinds of crazy strategies for racking up credits, but few have been as...
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Some Kind Of Wanderful
The AmWand The dudes at VICE crack the crazy behind AmWand, a so-called Zero Point Energy healing device: Three grown men recently gyrated their wands inches above my lower back while I laid facedown...
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Los Angeles Man Who Created Fake U.S. Army Unit Arrested
This takes elaborate ruses to new level. Californian Yupeng Deng used uniforms, IDs, basic training exercises, and military parades in a scam tricking Chinese immigrants into believing they had joined...
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Is There A Scam Behind The Rise In Oil And Food Prices?
The global economy and its recovery, and the living standards of millions of plain folks, are now at risk from the sudden rise in oil and commodity prices. Gas at the pump is up, and going higher. Food...
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Sakawa Boys: Ghana’s Cyber-Juju Email Scam Gangs
What do you get when you combine identity theft and email fraud with black magic, spells, and shape shifting? The explosively popular West African subculture known as Sakawa. Via Motherboard, who...
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Identity Thieves Scamming U.S. Government With Fake Tax Refund Claims
Ingeniously devious and glaringly simple. Lizette Alvarez reports on the latest ID theft scam for the New York Times: Besieged by identity theft, Florida now faces a fast-spreading form of fraud so...
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Heads-up to the festival community, thieves are working the circuit; here is...
via chycho The Festival The Setting The Scam The Outcome How to Protect Yourself I. The Festival I was lucky enough to win tickets through ION Magazine to attend Bass Coast, an international electronic...
View ArticleTelevangelist Cindy Jacobs Claims to Have Healed Broken Cheekbones and Tumors
I’m starting to think that “Cindy Jacobs” is someone’s art project. I refuse to believe that this level of delicious ignorance doesn’t come without a catch. … Read the rest The post Televangelist Cindy...
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Elderly ‘Vacation’ Winners Used as Drug Mules
Well played. Who would’ve thought that the entirely unexpected free international holiday would come with a big, twitchy catch? Via ABC News Australia: Australian Federal Police have uncovered a scam...
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Many Herbal Supplements Nothing But Rice and Weeds
If you’re looking to try an herbal supplement it looks like you’d be best off growing your own. Via Newser: Tests to determine what’s really in popular herbal supplements found a key ingredient is...
View ArticleWhy Engagement Rings Are a Huge Scam
Did you buy or receive an engagement ring? If so, you may enjoy this funny PSA from College Humor. Sure, it’s a joke, but as they say, “Many a true word is spoken in jest.” … Read the rest The post Why...
View ArticleThe Peer-Review Scam
In the world of academic journals, peer review of submissions is the gold-standard. However, all that glitters in academe is apparently not gold as this report in Nature reveals: Most journal editors...
View ArticleMiles for Nothing: How the Government Helped Frequent Fliers Make a Mint
Scott McCartney reveals another government-funded scam for the Wall Street Journal: Enthusiasts of frequent-flier mileage have all kinds of crazy strategies for racking up credits, but few have been as...
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The dudes at VICE crack the crazy behind AmWand, a so-called Zero Point Energy healing device: Three grown men recently gyrated their wands inches above my lower back while I laid facedown... The post...
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