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...books were all over the place freshman year—the shelves just couldn’t accommodate them,” says Pintar, who is originally from Croatia. “They were lined up on the fireplace mantel, they covered my desktop and they filled my desk drawers. Eventually, the overcrowding got so bad that I just started stacking them up in corners and next...
...Ecuador Desk...
Here's the scary thing about the identity-theft ring that the feds cracked last week: there was nothing any of its estimated 40,000 victims could have done to prevent it from happening. This was an inside job, according to court documents. A lowly help-desk worker at Teledata Communications, a software firm that helps banks access credit reports online, allegedly stole passwords for those reports and sold them to a group of 20 thieves at $60 a pop. That allowed the gang to cherry-pick consumers with good credit and apply for all kinds of accounts in their...
...fraud alerts to be put on file at each of the three credit-report companies. You can also download a theft-report form at www.consumer.gov/idtheft which, along with a local police report, should help when irate creditors come knocking. Just don't expect justice. That audacious help-desk worker was one of the fewer than 2% of identity thieves who are ever caught...
...first set of what Despair called Demotivator images began circulating around the country via e-mail, the young company had to scramble to establish paternity. With some help from Yahoo, which named Despair a pick of the week, orders began to flow in for posters, coffee mugs, notepads, desk plaques--$500,000 worth in 1999, $900,000 in 2000 and slightly more than $1 million last year. Now headquartered in Austin, Texas, and running lean (everything from printing to shipping is outsourced, and Justin, 31, is both CEO and the sole paid employee), Despair is on track for revenue growth...