All posts tagged "scam"

  • Pharrell Williams (Photo by [Paul A.Hebert]/Invision/AP)
    Korean firm scammed out of $375K for fake Pharrell show

    PITTSBURGH (AP) — A man scammed a South Korean steel company out of $375,000 by claiming he worked with a Japanese talent agency that could help the company book a concert by musician Pharrell Williams, FBI agents...

    • Posted April 24, 2015
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  • FILE - This March 22, 2013, file photo, shows exterior of the Internal Revenue Service building in Washington. Fake IRS agents have targeted more than 366,000 people with harassing phone calls demanding payments and threatening jail as part of a huge nationwide tax scam that has cost taxpayers $15.5 million. More than 3,000 people have fallen for the ruse since 2013, Timothy Camus, a Treasury deputy inspector general for tax administration, said Thursday, March 12, 2015. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
    Fake IRS agents target more than 366,000 people in huge tax scam

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Fake IRS agents have targeted more than 366,000 people with harassing phone calls demanding payments and threatening jail in the largest scam of its kind in the history of the agency, a federal investigator...

    • Posted March 12, 2015
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