MAN LOOSES $300,000 IN INTERNET SCAM

Man looses all his life savings over internet romance scam. What a true dumbass.

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DRIVING WITHOUT A LICENSE NO FLYING WITHOUT A LICENSE

A fake Swedish air pilot has been fined $2,500 (£1,700) and banned from flying for 12 months after confessing to flying passenger jets for an astonishing thirteen years without a licence.

Thomas Salme, 41, was made a captain three years after conning his way on to the flight deck of Scandinavian airline Air One.
He was arrested at Amsterdam's Schipol airport in March - while seated in the cockpit of a Corendon Boeing 737 carrying 101 passengers just minutes from take-off.
Officers, who were alerted by a Swedish tip-off, said the man had once had a commercial pilot licence, but it had expired and it never qualified him for passenger flights.
He claimed that he had also flown British, Belgian and Italian airlines, though it is unclear which ones.
Last month he was fined $2,500 (£1,700) and was banned from flying for 12 months by a Dutch court - which noted that in the entire 13 years, he had never caused an accident.
Salme said he secretly trained himself at night on a full-scale flight simulator - and created his own licence with a photocopier. Just like Catch me if you can movie.

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I THINK I WON A CRUISE

So I get a call to take a survey and they tell me once completed that I will be eligible fior a free two day cruise with this company called Imperial Majesty. Their website is www.imperialmajesty.com. Now this all sounds good and the website looked legit, but when I went on google (I love the internet by the way) and did a search on them, I found numerous websites with complaint after complaint from these guys. From hidden fees no not giving refunds to the ship looking like a sail boat. Needless to say I did not give them any of my credit card information as I am cheap anyway and you have to pry that stuff out of me. Moral of the story nothing in life is free and you get what you pay for. So do your research and don't get scammed.  Here are the websites and reviews for that cruise company if you can call it that. Complaintsboard, also scam.com and  the Ripoff report.

A public service anouncement from CUBICAL COUNTRY.

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MADOFF GETS SOME STREET JUSTICE

Bernard Madoff, who is serving a 150-year sentence in North Carolina for running a fraud scheme that cost investors billions of dollars, was physically assaulted by another inmate in December, according to three people familiar with the matter.

After the attack, Mr. Madoff, who pleaded guilty a year ago and was sent to a federal prison in Butner, N.C., was moved on Dec. 18 to the prison's low-security medical center for treatment. At the time, the Bureau of Prisons said that rumors of an assault were false and that Mr. Madoff suffered from dizziness and hypertension.
One of his lawyers, Ira Sorkin, added at the time that Mr. Madoff was experiencing high blood pressure and heart palpitations. Mr. Sorkin declined to comment Wednesday on whether his client was beaten, saying, "I don't comment on prison conditions or his family. That has been my policy."
Mr. Madoff was treated for a broken nose, fractured ribs and cuts to his head and face, according to a felon currently at Butner serving time on drug charges who was familiar with his condition at the time. The details of the injuries couldn't be independently verified.
Another inmate who recently was released from Butner after serving time for drug charges and a third person who isn't an inmate and is familiar with Mr. Madoff's situation both confirmed the assault.
The former inmate said the dispute centered on money the assailant thought he was owed by Mr. Madoff. Imagine that Madoff owing money even in prison. What was he running a prison scam as well.

via: WSJ

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CAB DRIVERS HAVE BEEN RIPPING OFF NEW YORKERS

New York City officials have discovered a widespread scam in which thousands of taxi drivers overcharged passengers more than $8.3 million. So what else is new. Cab drivers always rip you off, now it's just official.

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FAKE WEBSITE TRIES TO SCAM VICTIMS AGAIN

Hey since I have an 'again " theme going, (DMX locked up again), (victims getting scammed again), Bernie Madoff’s victims are getting scammed by someone who has created a faux website mimicking that of the agency handling claims for the swindler’s investors. The phony group has created a website that looks similar to the one run by the Securities Investor Protection Corp.

The real SIPC is an insurance fund that covers up to $500,000 of investor losses if a brokerage firm fails. Yesterday, the SIPC said a fraudulent group had set up the website I-SIPC.com and was attempting to lure Madoff’s victims.
Among the claims on the fraudulent website: that $1.3 billion hidden by Madoff in Malaysia has been found. The phony group claims to have ties to the United Nations and the International Monetary Fund. Man these scam artist will not stop.

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