Yet, as the foregoing makes clear, these lists often contain trick entries, where puckish magazine editors will insert nonexistent cities or bogus data just to see if readers are paying attention.

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But there is plenty of evidence that all sorts of scams flourish on the internet, from identity theft to phoney auctions and bogus requests for data.

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There is so much here, there has to be something to at least some of it, and if this or that witness or bit of data proves bogus, well, there are plenty more of both where they came from.

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