You may have heard the disturbing story of how a few, unscrupulous hackers attacked a technology writer over the weekend after getting access to his Apple iCloud account.
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One reason why this is a problem is that unscrupulous retailers can extort a few extra dollars from their customers by extending the range--for example, by keeping a few pricey bottles on the shelf with no intention of selling them.
The idea of new laws to protect consumers from unscrupulous businessmen creating a "rip off Britain" appears a classic Labour move.
As the analogy goes, a viral media process unfolds like an episode of 24: unscrupulous characters gleefully break a vial into the water main, a few unsuspecting citizens drink from the tap, sneeze onto their colleagues, and soon the entire town has gone crazy.
Unscrupulous organizations may adopt a name closely related to a well-known charity in an attempt to trick donors.
If monitoring of data streams becomes de rigueur, what's to stop an ISP (or a particularly unscrupulous or bribable employee) from monitoring its competitors' communications?
Each tax season brings fresh reminders that as National Taxpayer Advocate Nina Olson has been arguing for years, "untrained and unscrupulous preparers" are a big problem for taxpayers.
It reached right to the heart of the Empire, to India, a country she never visited but whose problems, of famine, poor sanitation, and oppression of the peasant class by unscrupulous landowners, were a major concern in the latter part of her life.
But he is taken for a ride by the unscrupulous Cat and Fox, almost eaten up by an evil giant, swallowed up in the belly of a whale, before eventually escaping from his wooden shell to become a real person.
Their last years together were blighted by her sister Susan who, supported by her husband, embarked on a long and unscrupulous legal battle to deny Mary her share of the family trust.
Under the FairTax, the government would not collect information on the private financial affairs of the American people, and there would be no IRS for unscrupulous politicians to use as a weapon against their political rivals.
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It is too easy for people to take advantage of these programs, which ultimately hurts the people that genuinely need them (case in point: the Earned Income Tax Credit, which, as a refundable credit, is a magnet for unscrupulous tax preparers who seek to take advantage of the potential for higher fees).
Independent MP Andrew Wilkie condemned the offshore processing legislation, labelling it a return to the unscrupulous policies of the past.
College basketball is a messy, often unscrupulous business, but in these final weeks it also becomes very meaningful for the players who participate.
In the autumn, the thirty year old Consumer Credit Act is due to be overhauled in a bid to stop unscrupulous lending practices.
Yannis Palaiologos, a young Greek writer, is encouraged by the warm response to his new play which satirises corruption: it describes a scheme by an unscrupulous government to sell the Acropolis to businessmen who prove to be priests.
Ministers and their officials should have shown more scepticism, as they should when they offered only 50% compensation for cattle with BSE, a standing temptation to unscrupulous farmers to send their animals for slaughter in order to obtain the market price for them.
There have been allegations that a large number of illegal buildings have been built in and around Mumbai by unscrupulous builders who bribe police and local administration officials to turn a blind eye to poor safety standards, our correspondent adds.
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Feng shui advice does not come cheap and there have been a number of scandals involving unscrupulous practitioners.
Jack Fate (Dylan) is a washed-up rock star who gets roped into a benefit concert by the unscrupulous promoter Uncle Sweetheart (John Goodman).
Lloyds blames unscrupulous claims management companies (CMCs) for a sharp increase in fictitious claims.
Now you'd probably think that even the most unscrupulous guest couldn't walk off with a nailed-in showerhead.
The ferocity of religious disagreement is also fanned by unscrupulous political leaders, says Mohammed Ladan, a Nigerian Muslim who now works as a pharmacist in Atlanta, Georgia.
It seems that during the gold rush mentality that was the real estate market over the last decade, incompetent or unscrupulous stock brokers sold clients TIC partnerships as a way to defer paying taxes on real estate investments.
However, it does offer something of a money making opportunity for the entirely unscrupulous.
Last night I had dinner with some successful entrepreneurs in southwestern Minnesota, a land unscathed by subprime slime and unscrupulous short-sellers.
Eating pho probably poses a more serious threat, since some unscrupulous merchants try to preserve perishable noodles with formaldehyde or boric acid.
"I am profoundly apologetic for the actions of unscrupulous brokers that promised the world to our organization a couple of years ago, " Natt was quoted as saying.
Mazzini was a dreamily unsuccessful revolutionary, Garibaldi an unscrupulous adventurer whose invasion of Sicily in 1860 was illegal and Cavour an old cynic who never travelled south of Pisa.
Rittenband, who is deceased Zenovich explains why Polanski fled: because, despite having negotiated a plea and having been recommended for probation, he was subject to the whims of a highly media-sensitive (and unscrupulous) judge who feared being made to look bad.
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