Word: scammed
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...come forward. They should be red-faced, having fallen for the crudest of cons. Using computers and rudimentary desktop printers, the gang ran off fake U.S. Federal Reserve notes in denominations from $100 million to $500 million. The total: $2.15 trillion, more than the annual American budget. The scam was blown by a joint U.S. Secret Service and Philippine police operation on Feb. 18, when they arrested one Mindanao ex-security guard; they are hunting at least six other suspects, including several foreign nationals...
...PAYBACK TIME (2/22/01): Press reports link lobbying by Hugh Rodham, Hillary Clinton's brother, to successful pardons for well-connected drug trafficker Carlos Vignali and mail-order scam merchant Glenn Braswell. Rodham was paid a reported $400,000 (including a $200,000 "success fee") for his work. Bill and Hillary express "disappointment" and ask Hugh to return the money. He says he will...
When Tatiana, 23, a nurse from the former Soviet Republic of Moldova, began planning her vacation in Greece last year, she knew she had to be careful. Her country has plenty of scam artists, and she had heard worrying stories of counterfeit tickets being issued and passports stolen. So she took a recommendation from a childhood friend, who put her in touch with a travel agency that offered her seven days all inclusive in sunny Athens for $800. A few days later she was in the back of a hired car, bound she hoped for the Mediterranean and an early...
Tampa police insist that the experiment was harmless. The mugshots against which the fans were checked were drawn from state and federal computer files. According to police spokesperson Joe Durkin, they contained only "known criminals that are attracted to these large events," ranging from "pickpockets, scam artists, con-game players, all the way to terrorists." And the computers were carefully monitored by humans. When the software made a match, it alerted an officer who compared the two faces on screen. Although FaceTrac made 19 positive IDs, no one was arrested...
...said students in SCAM have met with state representatives and begun working with parent-led organizations that oppose the MCAS tests...