All Posts Tagged With: "Fraud"

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Barclaycard Introduce Contactless Credit Card In London

Barclays have signed up more than 1,000 London shops in London which will be able to accept a new contactless credit card, Barclaycard OnePulse. Shoppers will be able to pay for items up to £10 just by swiping their card like with the Oyster travelcard, although transactions over £10 will still require a chip [...]

 16Aug2007 | Everton | 4 comments | Continued
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Can Blogwerx Stop Splogs Stealing Your Content?

I’m amazed sometimes by how many sites are out there who have copied my content. Occasionally I even see some of my better articles re-appear on sites like digg.com. I’d love to be able to stop this and hopefully Blogwerx is a step in the right direction.

 4Feb2007 | Everton | 5 comments | Continued
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22% Of Windows Installations “Non Genuine”

According to information released by Microsoft, 22% of systems validated using Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) proved non-genuine External Link.
Since WGA launched in July 2005, over 512 million users have attempted to validate their copy of Windows, Microsoft said. Of those, the non-genuine rate was 22.3 percent. 56,000 reports have been made by customers of counterfeit [...]

 26Jan2007 | Everton | 4 comments | Continued
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MP3 Player Steals £200,000 From Cash Machines

I know that we shouldn’t applaud criminals, but you have to admire the ingenuity of some criminals:
A Manchester man has been convicted of fraud after he used an MP3 player to download bank card details from a cash machine.
Maxwell Parsons, 41, plugged the unspecified player in to the back of free-standing machines and then recorded [...]

 23Nov2006 | Everton | 0 comments | Continued
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Playstation 3 Grey Market Backfires For Some Users

Firstly, I can’t understand why anyone would be desperate enough to pay $5k+ on eBay for a Playstation 3. But, if I was crazy enough to spend this amount of cash on eBay I’d definitely read the small print to make sure that I’m getting ‘Value For Money’.
So, I have no pity for these idiots:

Wii [...]

 22Nov2006 | Everton | 0 comments | Continued
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FACT Recruits Full-Time Detective To Combat Movie Piracy

The Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT) in the UK has recruited a full-time detective to patrol cinemas to try and catch potential pirates in the act of recording movies, to be later made into DVDs or shared online.
The role has been created in recognition of the fact that movie copying is no longer confined to [...]

 4Jul2006 | Everton | 0 comments | Continued
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Online libel: How To Avoid

I just read a timely article on The Register about anonymity for online libellers.
A fund manager, Terry Smith, chief executive of city firm Collins Stewart Tullett, won undisclosed damages from Jeremy Benjamin, another fund manager after Benjamin had posted what he now accepts as false allegations on the Motley Fool forum, www.fool.co.uk under [...]

 25Mar2005 | Everton | 5 comments | Continued
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For Sale: Porsche Boxster S!

I’ve been having major difficulty selling my old car. I thought I had a buyer on eBay for my Boxster S but it turned out to be a fraudulent account. Any tips on how to sell a car on the net?
Should I steer clear of eBay even though they appear to be [...]

 21Mar2005 | Everton | 3 comments | Continued