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Florida Men Behind Bars: 1st-Degree Murder Convictions Mean More Killings

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  by Seth Augenstein – Senior Science Writer –  @SethAugenstein   A series of academic studies in Europe and elsewhere have seemed to indicate that killers don’t necessarily go on to kill again. But a new study of Florida men behind bars for 1st-degree murder makes a clear statistical correlation: murderers have a significantly higher likelihood of […]

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Fraudsters targeting online gamers

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Don’t let fraud ruin your fun – Action Fraud warns against fraudsters targeting online gamers. Action Fraud is warning parents and online gamers of the risk of fraud involving Steam Cardsand Fortnite.  Between 1 April 2017 and 31 March 2018, Action Fraud received 35 reports of Fortnite related fraud, with a total loss off £5,119 – an average of £146

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Police most corrupt institution in Nigeria, reveals SERAP survey

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A new public survey released today by Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) reports high levels of corruption in public institutions in Nigeria for the past 5 years. Of the five major public institutions surveyed, the police emerge as the most corrupt, with the power sector identified as the second most corrupt in the country

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I MARRIED A SCAMMER !! Exclusive HD Documentary with subtitles

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In 2013 and then 2015, a Nigerian Scammer pretending to be a bank official contacted me and a ScamBaiting friend, trying to scam us. We baited him on each occasion and in 2015 he sent a woman to meet my character in England (an elderly, disabled man), to collect a large sum of cash from

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‘Android ad fraud drains phone battery’

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A new report has uncovered a massive advertising fraud scheme that made scammers serious cash, fooled marketing companies and killed users’ smartphone batteries. The scheme operated via fake banner advertisements that were secretly hidden behind legitimate banner ads in Android apps, according to BuzzFeed News. ADVERTISEMENT This scam was previously spotted by at least two ad

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‘Inconceivable’ Autonomy founder unaware of fraud, court told

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Mike Lynch, the founder of the software group Autonomy, was a “controlling and demanding individual” of whom it was inconceivable that he was unaware of the fraudulent practices alleged to have been taking place at his company, the high court has heard. The claims are included in the opening submissions of a civil claim brought by Hewlett

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Indian billionaire arrested in London over alleged $2B fraud

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London (CNN)UK police have arrested India’s billionaire diamond dealer Nirav Modi in London over his alleged involvement in a bank fraud that could be worth $2 billion. Modi was arrested Tuesday on “behalf of the Indian authorities,” according to a statement from London’s Metropolitan Police. His plea for bail was later denied and he was remanded

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Fraud victim given Merc seized from ‘traditional healer’ who scammed him

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A Uitenhage man may have lost R330,000 in a black-dollar scam last year – but on Friday he received some retribution when the Port Elizabeth high court ordered that he be given a Mercedes Benz confiscated from the man who scammed him. Rhyno Olivier had given Moses Orimutambira R330,000 in cash on May 11 2018

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“I was tortured; iron rod was inserted into my private parts. At the end of the day, I fainted and the officers dumped me in the cell. I was revived by other people who were remanded in the cell.”

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Omeli Darlington, a former staff member of First Bank of Nigeria, has spoken about how he was implicated in a fraud of N355million, allegedly carried out by staff of First Bank and Olam Nigeria Limited. Speaking during an interview with SaharaTV, Darlington broke down in tears, revealing how as a dispatch rider for First Bank

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FBI warns of SIM-swap scams, IBM finds holes in visitor software, 13-year-old girl charged over JavaScript prank…

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FBI warns of SIM-swapping outbreak Holding a substantial amount of crypto-currency? You may want to take a close look at your multi-factor authentication settings on your online accounts, particularly your email, and protections on your cellphone plan. The FBI is warning of what it says is an uptick in SIM-swapping fraudincidents. Criminals call a target’s phone carrier’s customer

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