On Friday the woman who narrated the Domino’s booger video that made national headlines plead guilty and received sentencing. [More]
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The $800,000 Cab Ride
By 11.16.10
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 11.15.10
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 11.15.10
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 11.12.10
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 11.5.10
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 11.5.10
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 10.28.10
After Russian authorities started an investigation into alleged spammaster Igor A. Gusev, worldwide spam has dropped by a sustained one-fifth. [More]
Read The Suicide Note Of A Ponzi Schemer
By 10.27.10
“For decades I’ve felt trapped, like, someone who has had a stroke who can think on the inside, but cannot communicate on the outside. … I feel like I have disappeared long ago. … So here is the story. My secret life of terrible crime.” So begins the suicide note of Robert Markman, whose 20-year Ponzi scheme was only discovered after he shot himself. [More]
Tipsy Angry Man Dumps 32,000 Pieces Of Mail
By 10.27.10
The check might be in the mail, but the mail is in the woods. [More]
10 Ways To Fight International Fraud
By 10.25.10
The FTC has got 10 ways to protect yourself from international scam rings. The most important one has go to be to never deposit a check in your account with the agreement that you’re going to wire a portion of it elsewhere. [More]
Man Attacks 70 Year Old Woman At Walmart, Continues Checking Out
By 10.25.10
A Maryland man was arrested after beating a 70-year-old woman in Walmart after her shopping cart bumped into his wife’s shopping cart while changing lanes. [More]
Shoplifter Forced To Dress As Bert, Carry "I Got Caught Shoplifting At Halloween Express" Sign
By 10.21.10
Talk about a punishment that suits the crime. [More]
Elderly Man Beaten To Death While Trying To Sell Comics Collection
By 10.21.10
A 77-year-old man decided to cash out his comic book collection and peddled it around Upstate New York. Police say thugs who found out he had the collection broke into his home, took the comic books and beat the man, allegedly causing a heart attack that resulted in his death. [More]
Walmart Worker Gets Run Over Trying To Stop Robbery
By 10.21.10
They’re not paying you minimum wage to be a hero. [More]
TSA Screener Stole Up To $700 A Day From Passengers
By 10.20.10
A Newark Airport TSA security screening supervisor was arrested by federal authorities for stealing cash from passenger’s carry-on bags. [More]
Steven Slater Pleads Guilty
By 10.19.10
Ex-JetBlue flight attendant Steven Slater plead guilty today to one felony attempted criminal mischief, one count of misdemeanor criminal mischief, and one count of aggravated awesomeness. [More]
Pizza Place Employee Forces Customer To Undress, Beats With Pipe
By 10.18.10
A Dallas-area pizza parlor employee forced an elderly customer to undress and beat him with a pipe after he tried to pay for his $17.60 meal with someone else’s credit card. According to the police report, the worker did it because he was “sick and tired of this type of thing happening at his business.” [More]
