In a twist to the usual ATM skimmer scam, there’s a new report from Krebs on Security about crooks who put the skimmer inside the bank door-lock. When you swipe your card to get inside, they grab your digits. A camera hidden behind a mirror above the ATM and pointed down at the keypad records your PIN code when you punch it in. [More]
Mom Jailed For Falsifying Address To Send Kids To Better School District
By January 27, 2011
An Ohio mom has been convicted and sent to jail for lying about her address so she could send her daughters to a better neighboring school district. School officials said she was cheating the system by having her daughters receive an education she hadn’t paid the taxes for. “Those dollars need to stay home with our students,” said school officials. To snare her, the school hired a private investigator, who videotaped her driving the children into the district. [More]
Waiter Thwarts Dine And Dashers By Leaping Onto Their Speeding Car
By January 25, 2011
A brave waiter threw himself onto a customer’s SUV as it sped away from the restaurant. They had tried to run out without paying their $51 bill. The 24-year old jumped on as the car pulled out of the parking lot, grabbing onto the roofrack and planting his feet on the running board. Listen, you just don’t mess with a waiter’s tips. [More]
Buy A Stolen Debit Card For $80
By January 21, 2011
Security firm Pandalabs investigated the online underworld’s menu of services and has surveyed the going rates for various kinds of fraud. Stolen credit card numbers can be had for as little as $2, but these are like buying a mystery bag. Crooks don’t know the cardholder’s info and there’s no assurance that it will actually work. So for $80 thieves will sell a debit card with a guaranteed (small) balance. To get access to a big balance of $82,000, that will run ya $700. [More]
Gym Guards Beat Man To Pulp When He Tried To Cancel
By January 12, 2011
A computer programmer who has been trying to cancel his gym membership since August says two gym security guards jumped him and pulverized his face when he wouldn’t back down from his cancellation request. [More]
Dine And Dashers On The Rise, Wearing Ties
By January 12, 2011
In the last year the NYPD says there was a 20% increase in the number of “chew and screwers” – customers who run up a restaurant or bar tab and then duck out before paying it. And it’s not just the usual “live fast die young crowd,” entire families and guys with Monopoly mustaches are getting in on the action. [More]
Thousands Of Fake Shake Weights Seized
By January 4, 2011
On Monday, U.S. Customs in Savannah, Georgia intercepted a shipment of 1,783 pieces of counterfeit exercise gear imported from China. The 764 cartons included Shake Weights, Body by Jake, and Total Core. The gear sported counterfeit logos. So not only would you get the normal benefits of a fake exercise product, the fake exercise products themselves were also fake. [More]
Smuggler Hid Cocaine Inside Easter Eggs
By December 28, 2010
You know this “Easter Creep” thing is out of control when a coke smuggler thinks Christmas time is the perfect time to start hiding his precious white powder inside Easter Eggs. [More]
Carjacker Gets Tracked Down In 7 Minutes Thanks To Droid App
By December 3, 2010
Droid does…justice? A guy who got carjacked was able to track the thief and send cops to surround him in seven minutes, thanks to the Lookout app installed on his Droid left in the car. [More]
ATM Skim Scammers Steal Cards With Old Cassette Recorders
By December 2, 2010
Fraudsters are cracking open old handheld cassette recorders and using their components to build ATM skimmers that steal your credit card numbers. [More]
Domino's Booger Woman Gets Sentenced
By November 22, 2010
On Friday the woman who narrated the Domino’s booger video that made national headlines plead guilty and received sentencing. [More]
The $800,000 Cab Ride
By November 16, 2010
A Hong Kong businessman took a 13 mile car service ride to New York City that wound up costing him almost $800,000. [More]
Meet The One-Woman Enron
By November 15, 2010
A Texas mom has been accused of running her own miniature Enron in order to support her upper middle-class lifestyle and put her son through college. Basically, she borrowed from Peter to pay Paul to buy a Lexus and never paid Peter back. [More]
Badware Hosting Sites Growing More Sophisticated, Offer Menu Of Services
By November 15, 2010
The illicit economy of phishers and malware perpetrators is growing more sophisticated, and more brazen. “Bulletproof” hosting sites that offered to protect their users from attacks and takedown requests now have corporate-like web pages offering a menu of a la carte services. The only limit is no spam and no porn. Hey, even they have standards. [More]
Inside The Mind Of The Most Epic Credit Card Thief of All Time
By November 12, 2010
Remember the hacks of TJ Maxx and Marshall’s that resulted in hundreds of millions of credit card numbers getting stolen? Here’s an in-depth profile of the 29-year-old mastermind behind them all, now serving a 20-year prison sentence. Too bad the Skull Gang doesn’t take plastic. [More]
Cops Catch ATM Napkin Scammer
By November 5, 2010
San Francisco PD have caught a crook using an ingeniously low-fi method to rip people off ATMs: napkins. [More]
Teen Steals 12-Pound Turkey Breast By Stuffing It Down His Pants
By November 5, 2010
Sidling up to a deli counter and stuffing a 12-pound turkey breast down his elastic-waisted sweatpants must have seemed like a good idea at one point. So a Brooklyn teen gave it a try. However, the nature of elastic and the laws of physics intervened, and he ditched the turkey in the street after waddling out of the store. [More]
Russia Goes After 1 Guy, Worldwide Spam Drops By 1/5
By October 28, 2010
After Russian authorities started an investigation into alleged spammaster Igor A. Gusev, worldwide spam has dropped by a sustained one-fifth. [More]
