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Jan 12 2012

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Train Ticket Buying Software is Mostly a Scam (Yeah, Big Surprise)

byC. CusterinE-commerce, Web

We've done a fair bit of reporting on China's online train ticket sales system this year, which has been buggy as hell when it's not busy hating the poor. Since it's such a hassle to buy a ticket online -- it can take hours -- specialized software has sprung up online that promises to automate the process for you. Only it turns out that most of this software is stealing your data. Yeah, we're shocked. A reporter from the Guangzhou Daily apparently tried ten different ticket-buying software offerings yesterday, and discovered ...

Jan 6 2012

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China’s Xiaomi Phone Gets Cloned, But Probably an Online Scam

bySteven MillwardinAsia, Gadgets, Mobile, Web

The Chinese startup Xiaomi seems to have hit the big-time - it now has its own local clone. Or, rather, it appears to have a clone called Dami, but it’s likely just an online scam and should be avoided totally. Promo images for the supposed ‘Dami phone’ are floating around the Chinese web, and are actually using pictures and graphics stolen from Xiaomi. All the scammers are doing is photoshopping the ‘Mi’ branding off of the Xiaomi phone, and changing the images’ logo a bit. Its probably non-existent phone claims all ...

Sep 3 2009

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Facebook Scam! Woman Wired $4k Abroad

byWillis WeeinUncategorized

The negative social consequences of Facebook are getting increasingly apparent. Just recently, a woman was murdered as a result of Facebook jealousy. Today, we received news that a woman from Missouri got conned to wire about $4,000 to a "friend" in England. This woman received a help request message from her "friend" saying that she and husband got detained in London and needed the money to be released. The real friend, Grace Parry, told the Southeast Missourian newspaper that her Facebook account got hacked into and someone else was posing as her. Facebook said Internet ...