This can work in two ways, trough email, text message or social-media post, the gift-check scam is more popular during Christmas season where people are buying on this a lot.  The scam goes like this; a message will appear from nowhere announcing you a winner of a popular retail gift ...

Two men jailed in the UK’s first criminal trial involving land banking fraud in the City of London Police investigation A £3 million was proven to be gathered from 300 investors the pair cheated, evidence was pointing the two as culprits.  Their strategies were to fool their victims like elderly and those ...

http://article.joinsmsn.com/news/article/article.asp?total_id=3085827&cloc=   South Korean Police said yesterday they have Busted ares fifteen-Member Group that faked the Adoption of Children to pull off ares Real-Estate Scam. The ring earned about four hundred eighty million Won ($ four hundred and seventy-nine thousand five hundred twenty) abusing are housing Law that Gives preference to are private ...

http://freestop4closure.com/index.php?mid=NEWS&listStyle=webzine&sort_index=readed_count&order_type=desc&page=16&document_srl=2606   New scam involving phony “forensic audits” of mortgage loans is the latest variation on loan modification scams. An article in the Sacramento Bee this week, reported that California Attorney General Jerry Brown warned California’s distressed homeowner’s to refrain from forensic review of their mortgage loan and lender’s practices. Jerry Brown ...

Embattled Rupert Murdoch's empire, News Corp. appears to be planning a spin-off of its core businesses.   Its own flagship newspaper, The Wall Street Journal, has reported this week that the company's board is considering a proposal that will make its publishing arm into a separate company.   Springhill Group Home analysts expect such separation of ...

The latest Brookings Institution tracking index shows that the world economy is still on life support from central banks and has worsen since the last autumn even with some current signs of stabilization.   According to the TIGER (Tracking Indices for the Global Economic Recovery) index, economic flaws extends crossways the Group of ...

Facebook is set to pay Microsoft USD 550 million for 650 patents recently auctioned by AOL in its effort to boost its IP for the looming litigation against Yahoo.   Under pressure from its stockholders to make changes to prevent further revenue fall, AOL was obliged to sell and license over 800 ...

Sony, the giant Japanese electronics maker, plans to cut 6% of its workforce or around 10,000 jobs as they continue with their efforts to restructure their business, the 3rd job cut since 2005. It has already sold 2 divisions and is now scaling back its TV production.   According to Bloomberg's data, ...

A Tibet national in India has set himself on fire and ran shouting protests through a demonstration in New Delhi on Monday just before a visit by China's leader.   The man seems to have doused himself with a flammable substance and set himself on fire then ran past the area where ...

For the twelfth successive year, identity theft topped the consumer complaint database of the Federal Trade Commission with the largest number of complaints, perhaps owing to the rampant use (and misuse) of online services such as social networking and e-commerce websites.   From the 1.8 million complaints the FTC got in 2011, ...