Word: conned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sophisticated technology multiplies the opportunities for theft. Warns Philip Wynn, deputy district attorney for Los Angeles County: "Computer crime is an extremely serious problem. I see it as a monster." No one knows exactly how much computer con men are raking in, but the numbers are big. Federal officials say that the average loss in a bank robbery is $3,200. A typical nonelectronic embezzlement comes to $23,500. But the average computer fraud...
...losing side in the civil war. Thus the mood in Paris now was one of embarrassment as well as consternation. As it happened, the announced merger came only a day after Libyan officials revealed that they had signed a long-term contract with Elf Aquitaine, France's state-con trolled oil company, for exploration rights covering about 6,000 sq. mi. of Libya's oil fields. It was obviously a strange thing for France to do: strike an oil deal with hostile Libya at the very time that it was encroaching on friendly Chad...
...size bandits, perhaps the youngest computer con men ever nabbed, had obtained the Telenet phone number, coupled their school terminals to the line, and probably by nothing more than trial and error punched out the right combinations-in this case only five letters and numbers-to link up with the computers. More shrewd guesswork got them the "password" to log onto and operate the machines...
Feldstein's work has included a con- troversial study of the U.S. social security system sharply critical of the government's retirement program, which he says has hurt the economy by depleting funds that could be used for investment...
...time communing with the desert, but he certainly knows his way around town when it comes to filching TV sets for ready cash As he puts it, he and his brother are both "city coyotes." Lee is also enough of a raconteur and Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, etc., golfer to con Austin's movie producer, Saul Kimmer (Louis Zorich), into buying his unwritten cornpone saga of the "true West." Saul is one of those monstrous Hollywood moths who skirt the flames of venality, yet never get torched. All three men are the progeny of Herman Melville's The Confidence...