Word: scammed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...YORK: Hundreds of Internet users looking for free pornography got something else when they tried to download pictures from three U.S. websites: hundreds of dollars in phone charges to a former Soviet republic. The Federal Trade Commission shut down the scam, charging three people and two companies in New York state with false and deceptive advertising. The ring allegedly lured Web surfers to its sites with the promise of free erotic pictures. Those who wanted to see the photographs first had to download special software that, once installed, surreptitiously hijacked the computer's modem. The program disconnected the users from...
...burger joint was arrested today for selling marijuana in Happy Meals. Mence Powell, who manned the restaurant's drive-through window, was taken into custody after selling undercover officers a burger, fries, soda and a side of weed on five separate occasions. Police said Powell pulled the scam by arranging deals in advance. After an order was placed, customers would then head to the drive-through window to complete the transaction. "I don't know how he could think that he could do this and continue to get away with it," said Police Captain Daniel Wall...
Murphy said she does not know of any students who were contacted by scam artists, but that the broadcast was a protective measure because residents of Burlington, Mass., were recently barraged by such calls...
...following that other explosion in the sky, TWA Flight 800. In particular I suffer over what the families are going through and will go through, all of which will be made worse by the way America tries to pretend there's no such thing as tragedy. The great grief scam has begun again...
...have been thinking?" The 50-some federal agents who swept down on the town while the embers were still warm quickly determined that both fires were indeed the result of arson. (They also confirmed a failed arson attempt at an all-white church nearby.) They ruled out an insurance scam by church personnel. And since no outsider would have known the tiny Central Grove church existed, the culprit was probably a local...