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Cyber criminals are earning up to $US150,000 a week selling fake anti-virus software to naive internet users, confidential documents obtained by a US security researcher reveal.Computer users typically receive annoying pop-up messages telling them their computer is infected and they can clean their machine by clicking to buy a $US49.95 software package called Antivirus XP 2008 or Antivirus XP 2009.

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Umar bought a DLP in 2005 with a $400 Best Buy Performance Service Plan. The TV keeps blowing through expensive bulbs (Umar has replaced 7 $275 bulbs in 3 years,) and rather than wait 2 weeks for a technician every time this happens, Best Buy provided a telephone number and told him to order and replace the bulbs himself. Now, because he followed their directions, Best Buy is refusing to cover the TV under the "lemon" provision of the service agreement.

http://consumerist.com/5034170/best-buy-refuses-to-r... 

The heartbreaking impact of a worldwide Internet ticket scam is only now becoming clear, as victims arrive in Beijing without the Olympics tickets they thought they had purchased months ago. Among the victims is a California man who may now be unable to watch his 16-year-old daughter compete in swimming events. The father of a U.S. softball team player also says he was scammed after he paid $3,500 for tickets to the opening ceremony.The victims thought they had purchased their tickets from a Web site named BeijingTicketing.com.

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Scam-nation; that is what we are headed for. Can you believe the crud we hear about? Something new almost every day. Has life always been this way or do we just hear about these things more easily now? Are we going nuts to treat each other like this, or what?Here are some of the Latest Scams on the "this pisses me off list"!

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/853409/is_a... 

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