crime
Meet Mr. Vargas. He would like to sell you his stake in some commercial property, a triangular lot just north of Central Park, at Lenox and St. Nicholas Avenues, in NYC. You would like to buy this property, because it's apparently awesome. Unfortunately, after you give Mr. Vargas the money — you find out that the property is owned by an entirely different person.
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identity theft
Police arrested Daniel Kaufman yesterday and charged him with identity theft and
forgery for
running customers' credit cards through twice and pocketing the extra money—as much as $25,000 since February, and "cops say that Kaufman also attempted to steal $70,000 more," reports the local Brooklyn Paper. Kaufman managed the Blue Pig ice cream shop as well as three other restaurants, and he took credit card slips from one business and ran them through at another.
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Consumerist
