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  1. FTA Hacker

    Skeptical student IDs fake Lady Gaga, on Skype to discuss bullying

    (CNN) -- A New Jersey school employee is under fire for enlisting an impersonator to fill in for Lady Gaga, who was slated to talk to elementary school students about the dangers of bullying, school officials said. Tenafly Public Schools administrators were alerted of the gaffe by one...
  2. No Warranty

    Madoff's estate going, going, sold

    NEW YORK, -- The last chance to bid on convicted Ponzi scam operator Bernard Madoff's property will take place next week, federal authorities said. The U.S. Marshals Service is auctioning 276 lots of Madoff's personal property, the last of the items up for grabs from the swindler's New...
  3. No Warranty

    Elaborate scam bilked 10,000 people of $1M

    <div>Quebec provincial police say they've uncovered an intricate identity-theft scheme that took $1 million total from more than 10,000 people. In what is called a "phishing" scam, the fraudster sent his victims massive amounts of fake emails purporting to be from financial institutions and...
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    Down?

    Anyone else down right now?
  5. D

    Help me my printer is misbehaving! How do you reset HP 1100 inks are FULL?!!?

    All of my ink cartridges ARE full. But my print is set on believing they ae empty. Buying new cartridges that I dont really need cost 33.99 each and it needs 4! More than 100$ just for a little bit of ink! I have the 1100 hp business inkjet and desperatily need to print my other options mean...
  6. Rameye

    old viewsat ultra bin working

    tried the old 101216U for ultra and it is working.
  7. CASPER

    Madoff to NY magazine: Government a Ponzi scheme

    NEW YORK – Wall Street swindler Bernard Madoff said in a magazine interview published Sunday that new regulatory reform enacted after the recent national financial crisis is laughable and that the federal government is a Ponzi scheme. "The whole new regulatory reform is a joke," Madoff said...
  8. CASPER

    hd8000_TIMOv489_b207-3 Arrangement for SV8000hd

    hd8000_TIMOv489_b207-3 Arrangement for SV8000hd Scam Solution for February 19, 2011 use at your own risk
  9. Scammer

    Former airline agent admits scamming travelers

    -- A former Continental Airlines sales agent pleaded guilty Tuesday to a $1 million fake voucher scheme that could result in a maximum of two decades in jail. Victoria Scardigno, 33, of Weehawken, New Jersey, sold more than 2,000 fake travel vouchers for $500 to $600 each, according to the U.S...
  10. Scammer

    Online ad for P.E.I. baby a scam: RCMP

    An ad on a popular P.E.I. buy-and-sell site offering a baby boy for adoption has turned out to be a scam, RCMP say. Tim and Stephanie Sock, who have adopted a child and are in the process of adopting another, discovered the ad while online recently looking to buy a pet. The ad, which appears...
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    setup issues

    I'm having issues with my receiver ihub svlan conversion, all has been installed per instructions serial number etc. but once i get done with channel scan i confirm ip address, serial match etc. i get on every station "no service channel scrambled" Any guidance would be appreciated
  12. Scammer

    Mexican scam costs B.C. couple $1,300

    The husband of a B.C. politician says he was held by Mexican police and had to buy his way out of custody after their rental car was struck by two motorcyclists while on holiday in mid-January. B.C. New Democrat MLA Diane Thorne said her 78-year-old husband was driving in the city of Progresso...
  13. Scammer

    Lottery scam victims finally get $12.5M

    They had to wait seven years, but seven Ontario men each collected cheques for more than $2 million Thursday, their share of a lottery win originally awarded to a woman now facing fraud charges. The men, all friends and former co-workers who lay cable for a living, will each receive $2.1...
  14. Scammer

    Super-swindler Lacroix to be freed

    The mastermind behind one of Canada's largest frauds is about to be released after 16 months in jail. Vincent Lacroix, the founder of the Norbourg trust fund, swindled $115 million from 9,200 investors. He will receive his conditional release from prison next Thursday after serving the...
  15. Scammer

    Norbourg victims to get $55 million

    Norbourg fraud victims Michel Vézina, left, and Wilhelm Pellmans, centre, join Jacques Larochelle, a lawyer for the plaintiffs, at a news conference Wednesday in Montreal. Investors who lost money in the Norbourg investment scam will recover it all, Quebec's securities regulator says. An...
  16. CASPER

    Phony Hollywood producer gets 4 years in prison

    LOS ANGELES – A judge has ordered a nearly four-year prison term for a man who posed as a Hollywood producer and fleeced investors out of $3.4 million for a phony show about the Department of Homeland Security. Joseph Medawar pleaded guilty in May 2006 to tax evasion and conspiracy for the TV...
  17. Scammer

    RCMP charge 3 in immigration, tax frauds

    An Île-Bizard, Que., man that the RCMP has accused of defrauding taxpayers of nearly half a million dollars will spend the weekend in an Ontario jail before his bail hearing related to 58 charges. The Mounties say Ahmad El-Akhal, 62, his wife Tahani Mohamad Hassan Ee-Akhal, 53, and Mississauga...
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    HD Private Server

    :confused::confused:Is there any private server that offers most of HD channels? I am also considering subscribing, but I do not have SSN, and looks like it is not an option.
  19. Scammer

    Feds nab $7.2 billion for Madoff victims

    Investigators of Madoff's fraud said they reached a $7.2 billion settlement with the estate of Jeffry Picower (right), who is survived by his widow, Barbara (left). http://money.cnn.com/video/news/2010/12/17/n_madoff_picower.cnnmoney/ NEW YORK -- The effort to recover money for victims of...
  20. Scammer

    Indian authorities raid telecom in probe

    Premises belonging to relatives of former telecommunications minister A. Raja were among those raided. New Delhi, India -- India's Central Bureau of Investigation staged a series of raids at the homes and offices of people at the center of a national telecommunications scandal, a CBI official...
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