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Cherifi's lawyer, Fouad Deffous, says his client admits the possession of counterfeit passports and materials to produce fraudulent credit cards. Deffous argues, though, that any theft, fraud or procurement and distribution of forged passports were a means of generating personal income and not of assisting terrorists. Prosecutors contend they have convincing evidence to the contrary. First, they note, fake passports containing spelling and grammatical errors identical to those belonging to Cherifi were discovered in a December 2000 raid of an al-Qaeda cell in Frankfurt. And telephone numbers for members of that group, who were alleged to have been...
...seems that the United States is progressing to a currency with a more futuristic design, and there are some that support this shift. My avant-garde, immensely pro-euro German blockmate spares no effort in explaining the benefits of such a currency design: It’s harder to counterfeit, has a democratizing effect, and looks to the future, not the past. And I agree that this all makes perfect sense...
...After only 16 years, The Game became so popular that fans began creating counterfeit tickets for the first time. It must have been the Yalies...
Stubborn. It’s a good way to describe a lot of Met fans, especially at this time of year. Real Met fans have realized that the vast majority of Yankee fans are obnoxious jerks. We’ve realized that the presence of the Yankees makes finding counterfeit Met caps at the corner store impossible and that there is nothing fun about being treated like a second-class citizen in your own city because you wear the orange and blue. So we’ve learned to root against the Yanks in the postseason, and you can tell...
...April the FBI cracked a Russian ring and charged a pair of its members with conspiracy and fraud. The hackers were also allegedly involved in website "spoofing." Federal officials said the Russians tried to create a counterfeit website mimicking the real home page of PayPal, the popular online fund-transfer service. PayPal has been hit with such spoofs several times. When a fake site was operating, hackers e-mailed PayPal users and got them to click on a hyperlink with the spoof site's domain name: www.paypai.com On many computers, a capital I looks identical...