Puppies and Swayze snare $70m in online Aussie scams (The New Zealand Herald)
Monday, March 1st, 2010From pedigree puppies to Patrick Swayze, fraudsters swindled nearly A$70 million ($81.91m) from Australians last year by exploiting a wide swath of online scams.About 20,000 people reported becoming victims of fraud in 2009 through…