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VIDEO: Fake car insurance and cold calls

2013-10-12 17:02:33| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

In this week's Your Money, Declan Curry looks at the hot issue of cold calls, and fake car insurance.

Fake Release on Samsung Deal Leads to Calls for Police Probe

2013-10-11 18:52:54| Appliances - Topix.net

Fingerprint Cards AB, a Swedish maker of biometric sensors, plans to request a police probe into a false press release that said it agreed to be bought by Samsung Electronics Co.

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Arrests over 'fake' car insurance

2013-10-09 11:49:27| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

Twenty-seven people have been arrested during raids across England by police tackling fake car insurance scams, police say.

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Fake Cancer Study Spotlights Bogus Science Journals

2013-10-03 21:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

National Geographic: A cancer drug discovered in a humble lichen, and ready for testing in patients, might sound too good to be true. That's because it is. But more than a hundred lower-tier scientific journals accepted a fake, error-ridden cancer study for publication in a spoof organized by Science magazine. The fake study points to a "Wild West" of pay-to-publish outlets feeding off lower tiers of the scientific enterprise by publishing studies without any appreciable scrutiny, say research ethics experts. (See...

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