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'Tis the season ... for burglaries, thefts and scams
During this season of giving, a lot of people will suffer by giving thieves, thugs and scammers an opportunity to rip them off.
Some will lose cash. Some will lose presents. And some will have something far more valuable taken from them: Their identities.
In the weeks leading up to Christmas, area police typically respond to increasing numbers of car and home burglaries, bank holdups and armed robberies.
But this year Internet scams appear to be on the rise, and showing up in some insidiously clever new permutations.
In recent weeks, MediaNews Group reporters have talked with two area women targeted by con artists posing as the Internal Revenue Service.
One said she got an official-looking e-mail from what appeared to be the IRS, informing her a quarterly tax payment had been lost in the mail, and asked her to send a replacement check.© 2005 Oroville Mercury-Register
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