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Print beats net for fraud

By Dan Goodin → More by this author
29 Oct 2007 20:39

Scammers still prefer old-world means, FTC study shows

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Bann the evil technology.... 

By Anonymous Coward
Posted Monday 29th October 2007 22:09 GMT
Pirate

....that is destroying our lifestyle!!!

that technology be PRINT MEDIA.

DESTROY THE PRESSES!!! (Been there, done that?)

KILL GUTENBERG!!! (What? He is?)

Wow!!! 

By LaeMi Qian
Posted Monday 29th October 2007 22:11 GMT
Happy

But it is in print - right there in B&W!! - it MUST be true!

Next they will be telling us those commercial 'news and current affairs' shows are sensationalist ratings-driven hokum!

And TV adverts are one-sided!!

oh noes!

TV phone in scams 

By druck
Posted Tuesday 30th October 2007 11:18 GMT

I look forward to a similar survey in the UK, the TV phone in scams will have tricked far more of our home grown idiots than even the internet.

UK survey 

By Colin Millar
Posted Tuesday 30th October 2007 15:40 GMT

should identify the banks as the biggest scammers - PPI anyone?

of course the evil interweb is to blame for everything where records are kept other than on paper and sums are done on anything more advanced than an abacus

This scam happened because some people got fooled by a con-man

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/30/bank_mortgage_scam/

- bet it gets written up as cyber-crime because it was one of those newfangled online accounts

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