Fake porn fines hit thousands of Swedes
Published: 8 Sep 12 12:04 CET | Print version
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/43102/20120908/
Thousands of Swedes have been paying faked fines for surfing on porn sites, depositing millions into fraudsters accounts, reported Swedish media on Saturday.
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To one of the accounts that the police have traced, at least 1,500 and perhaps as many as 3,000 Swedes have paid the fake fines, thereby earning the suspects millions of kronor.
“Heaps of these fines have been sent out and a lot of people have been paying them,” said the Stockholm police force’s fraud expert Jan Olsson to SVT.
The letters that were sent out to thousands of Swedes at the end of summer stated that the recipient had downloaded pornography and that the action had been traced. In order to avoid charges being pressed, the fake letters stated, the person would have to pay a sum, between a few hundred kronor (100 kronor = $15) and several thousand kronor.
According to the police, few police reports have been filed, and the hidden cases are believed to be numerous.
“Since it says in the letter that you’ve down loaded porn, it becomes very sensitive. It’s not something you want to tell your wife about,” said Olsson to SVT.
His advice to those affected is clear:
“Definitely don’t pay anything. There’s no legal ground for this, and the Anti-Piracy Bureau has warned the public about this, it’s pure fraud.”
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So it is kind of legal to download porn but is illegal to download a movie/song/book? Interesting...
The Preachers are selling stock in heaven, but with absolutely no disclosure statements as would be required by any other stocks sales people.
Religion has convinced people that there is an invisible man... living in the sky. Who watches everything you do every minute of every day. And the man has a list of ten specific things he does not want us to do. And if you do any of these things, he will send you to a special place of burning and fire and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever, and suffer and burn and scream until end of time. But he loves you, he loves you, And he needs money,
It's funny how portraits of Jesus always are showing a white man even though he was supposedly born in the middle east. Why don't the regular racist criers of Sweden cry about this clearly racist case as well? Oh, I know, cause they are hypocrites.
The bible tells me I can sell my children into slavery, or rub feces on their faces or even kill them. It also says Moses tied his Ass to a tree and walked 5 km. Should we be doing all that also?
What you mentioned is, as far as I know, indigneous to the USA, but it's a scam nevertheless.
see my previous messages. as soon as someone admits they are a christian you know you are dealing with a class 1a dolt. bats flying around n the attic and all that
so prince t - tell me the world is about 5000 years old yes? dinosaurs never existed?
religiousfreaks.com/2006/07/09/evolution-vs-creationism-family-guy-style/
just for you prince
exchange state of kansas for 99% of the USA and poor little prince t.
This four-eyed "beardo" is covered with tattoos and looks like a methhead and my wife is quite disturbed by all this. We live in Tokyo, Japan and are wondering who in Sweden we can report him to-----or better yet, if there is any Swedish media outlet that would be interested in getting these bizarre photos of some washed-up former athlete posing in his red underwear.
We are not interested in money or anything-----just embarrassing this nutjob who is probably sending out similar photos to other innocent women. I mean, come on, online stalking a married woman? How low can you go?.