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Romance fraud: Woman sent conman £40k despite suspicions

A woman who suspected her mother was being scammed online later sent the fraudster £40,000, ending up heavily in debt. The mother-of-one from south east Wales was a victim of romance fraud, a crime which police say grew by nearly a third last year. Now the woman has spoken out about falling for the charms

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5 craziest things Found By Airport Security

Every day, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) screens about 1.8 million passengers, along with all of their luggage. Those searches produce a lot of interesting results. From animals to weapons, security officials have to be on their guard for the strange, out of the ordinary and occasionally disturbing items passengers try and take on a

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Doctor, medical funder charged in New York in transvaginal mesh fraud

NEW YORK: A doctor and a surgical funding consultant were arrested on Friday on charges that they defrauded women into having unnecessary surgeries to remove transvaginal mesh implants in order to profit from settlements paid to the women by mesh manufacturers, U.S. prosecutors in New York said. Urogynecologist Christopher Walker, 49, of Florida, and Wesley

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UK Border Agency burst Nigerian man with multiple passports, he didn’t know or remember

Unlike expired drivers’ licenses, which most U.S. states require be surrendered upon renewal, no one will collect your old passport from you when it expires. In fact, being in possession of an expired passport is not considered to be a fraud or any other sort of crime. But what if you have more than one

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