crime
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The Many Ways You Can Get Scammed Selling Your Things Online
The convenience of the internet has allowed us to reach networks we would otherwise never reach — but that also means we’re exposing ourselves to those with ill intentions. In particular, when you put your email or phone number on online market sites, you’re becoming a target for scammers.
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Everything You Need to Know About the Chris Dawson Trial and the Podcast That Got Us Here
In December 2018, former professional rugby league player and high school teacher Chris Dawson, then aged 70, was arrested and charged with murdering his wife Lynette almost forty years previously. On August 30, in the Supreme Court of New South Wales, Justice Ian Harrison declared: “I am satisfied beyond reasonable doubt that the only rational…
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Smart, Accomplished People Are Falling for These ‘Jobfishing’ Employment Scams
Scams that target job-seekers are nothing new. There’s multi-level marketing schemes, assemble-product-at-home deals, phishing schemes using job applications, not to mention the perfectly legal scam of being exploited by your employer. But the trend toward working from home and the anonymity of the internet have allowed scammers to create more elaborate fake employment situations that…
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18 Things You Need to Know to Prevent a Home Burglary
The thought of someone breaking into your house and stealing your stuff is terrifying, and a lot of the “conventional wisdom” about how prevent it seems to prey on that fear. It’s not necessarily wrong advice, but it often seems based on our fear instead of reality, and often proposes a lot of (usually expensive)…