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Scammers using PayPal prepaid debit cards to target businesses 08/05/2014 10:27am • WASHINGTON -- D.C. area business owners should be on the lookout for scammers using prepaid debit cards to steal items. The Metropolitan Police Department is investigating cases where a PayPal MasterCard prepaid debit card was used to steal from retail stores and restaurants. The fraudsters are First plea agreements signed in lottery scam case 07/31/2014 03:10pm • DAVE KOLPACK Associated Press FARGO, N.D. (AP) -- The first plea agreements have been reached in a wide-ranging federal investigation into a Jamaican lottery scam targeting mostly elderly victims in the United States, including one woman from North Dakota who agreed to empty her savings account and First plea agreements signed in lottery scam case 07/31/2014 03:10pm • DAVE KOLPACK Associated Press FARGO, N.D. (AP) -- The first plea agreements have been reached in a wide-ranging federal investigation into a Jamaican lottery scam targeting mostly elderly victims in the United States, including one woman from North Dakota who agreed to empty her savings account and First plea agreements signed in lottery scam case 07/31/2014 03:10pm • DAVE KOLPACK Associated Press FARGO, N.D. (AP) -- The first plea agreements have been reached in a wide-ranging federal investigation into a Jamaican lottery scam targeting mostly elderly victims in the United States, including one woman from North Dakota who agreed to empty her savings account and Consumer Reports warns about scammers targeting hotels 07/28/2014 10:48pm • WASHINGTON -- Are you traveling this summer? Keep in mind scammers may try to prey on you during your hotel stay in creative ways, according to Consumer Reports. You might get a call on your hotel room phone. "This is the front desk," the voice on the other end may say. "We're having a problem Jamaica police arrest 41 suspected scammers 07/23/2014 06:50pm • KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) -- More than three dozen Jamaicans have been arrested as suspected lottery scammers, police on the Caribbean island said Wednesday.The Jamaica Constabulary Force said a two-day operation this week by police and soldiers netted 41 suspects in western Jamaica. Raids took place s Doctor sues NY strip club over credit card scheme 07/16/2014 08:30pm • MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) -- The three evenings started innocently enough: The cardiologist says he and a woman who introduced herself as a nursing student went to dinner and, on one occasion, a concert at Madison Square Garden.They ended, he says, in a drug-induced blur.Dr. Zy US: Man posed as airline worker to get free travel 07/11/2014 06:40pm • DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer DALLAS (AP) -- Federal officials say that a Georgia man posed as an airline employee to score cheap travel and resold the tickets for thousands of dollars.The U.S. Attorney's Office in Los Angeles said that 37-year-old Gilbert Myers Jr. of Atlanta remained in custody Transportation officials warn of E-ZPass scams 07/10/2014 11:31am • WASHINGTON -- A new phishing scam is targeting E-ZPass owners along the East Coast, including drivers who live in Maryland and Virginia. The phishing effort comes in an email that appears to be from E-ZPass, saying drivers owe an unpaid toll. The emails says users can click a link to settle the Philippines nabs Taiwanese, Chinese linked to scam 07/10/2014 06:20am • JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- Philippine police arrested 44 foreigners who allegedly ran an online blackmail syndicate that defrauded victims in China and Taiwan by duping them into believing that their bank accounts have been used by money launderers or terrorists, police s Scammers target Prince George's County residents 07/07/2014 06:31pm • WASHINGTON -- A scam that surfaced in Arlington County earlier this year and has now popped up in Prince George's County: Telephone fraudsters try to persuade potential victims to pay an immediate fine or face arrest. "The citizen is told that they failed to meet a court date and as a result of Cops: Truckers duped by woman impersonating doctor 07/03/2014 05:14pm • MICHAEL RUBINKAM Associated Press A California truck driver pulled into the Blue Beacon Truck Wash in central Pennsylvania and spotted an advertisement for low-cost health exams for truckers. Needing one for his commercial driver's license, he called the number on the sign and was picked up by a wom T-Mobile accused of making money off bogus billing 07/02/2014 01:46pm • ANNE FLAHERTY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- Federal regulators are urging consumers to go through their phone bills line by line after they accused T-Mobile US of wrongly charging customers for premium services, like horoscope texts and quirky ringtones, the customers never authorized.The Fede Regulators accuse T-Mobile of bogus billing 07/02/2014 03:20am • ANNE FLAHERTY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- T-Mobile US knowingly made hundreds of millions of dollars off its customers in potentially bogus charges, federal regulators alleged Tuesday in the first lawsuit of its kind against a wireless provider.The lawsuit by the Federal Trade Commission, wh New high on Wall Street ... FTC goes after T-Mobile USA ... Infant seat recall 07/01/2014 06:10pm • NEW YORK (AP) -- The stock market rose to an all-time high today, buoyed by evidence of a global recovery in manufacturing. The Dow Jones industrial average climbed within two points of 17,000 for the first time after separate surveys showed manufacturing expansion trends in both the United States a