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	<title>Thiefhunters in Paradise &#187; Vegas</title>
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		<title>A devious scorpion scam</title>
		<link>http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/2011/12/scorpion-scam/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2011 03:29:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bambi Vincent</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/?p=3233</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Intruder on the loose. In the midst of all the excitement of the premiere of our National Geographic documentary, and all the television promotion that came from it, we&#8217;ve moved. From Las Vegas to the Phoenix area, from one desert &#8230; <a href="http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/2011/12/scorpion-scam/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>H&amp;R Block reneges on promise, cops-out on client</title>
		<link>http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/2011/09/hr-block-reneges-on-promise/</link>
		<comments>http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/2011/09/hr-block-reneges-on-promise/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 18:45:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bambi Vincent</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/?p=2466</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When a giant corporation closes its shutters and bolts its doors against its own client, its like a reverse prison. I, the client, feel like a tiny, pesky ant searching for a chink in the fortress wall so I can &#8230; <a href="http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/2011/09/hr-block-reneges-on-promise/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Gas pump skimmers attached in 11 seconds</title>
		<link>http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/2010/03/gas-pump-skimmers/</link>
		<comments>http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/2010/03/gas-pump-skimmers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:36:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bambi Vincent</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Credit card fraud]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/?p=1441</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Breaking news from Las Vegas Metro&#8217;s Kim Thomas, the fraud cop featured in my story on credit card skimmers hidden in gas pumps. Detective Thomas writes: I read the post you did with my picture. It was very impressive. At &#8230; <a href="http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/2010/03/gas-pump-skimmers/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Las Vegas real estate business ethics</title>
		<link>http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/2009/08/las-vegas-ethics/</link>
		<comments>http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/2009/08/las-vegas-ethics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 00:39:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bambi Vincent</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Scams]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/?p=1193</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Legal-but-dirty, beat-the-system, shady business is being committed by Las Vegas homeowners at the inducement of a real estate agent, as reported by Joel Stein in TIME magazine (8/14/09 issue). [Real estate agent Brooke] Boemio specializes in short selling, in a &#8230; <a href="http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/2009/08/las-vegas-ethics/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Skimmers and credit card fraud (more)</title>
		<link>http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/2009/07/credit-card-fraud/</link>
		<comments>http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/2009/07/credit-card-fraud/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:47:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bambi Vincent</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Credit card fraud]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/?p=1138</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Skimmers, officially called magnetic card readers, capture the data on a card&#8217;s magnetic strip. Exactly what information is that? Credit and debit cards have three &#8220;tracks&#8221; of data. Track 1 stores your name, account number and expiration date, and discretionary &#8230; <a href="http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/2009/07/credit-card-fraud/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>High-tech identity theft today</title>
		<link>http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/2009/06/new-skimmers/</link>
		<comments>http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/2009/06/new-skimmers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:37:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bambi Vincent</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Credit card fraud]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/?p=1131</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[…¢ Identity theft is now the number one crime in the world. …¢ Las Vegas is number one in the U.S. for ID theft; even though it&#8217;s estimated that only 20% of the crimes are reported. …¢ The FBI estimates &#8230; <a href="http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/2009/06/new-skimmers/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>ID theft buffet</title>
		<link>http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/2009/06/id-theft-buffet/</link>
		<comments>http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/2009/06/id-theft-buffet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:59:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bambi Vincent</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/?p=1122</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A former mortgage broker put 40 boxes of customers&#8217; personal information into a Las Vegas dumpster. It was December 2006, but we all knew enough about identity theft already to know better. The Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act of &#8230; <a href="http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/2009/06/id-theft-buffet/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Sloppy business at UPS</title>
		<link>http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/2009/05/sloppy-ups/</link>
		<comments>http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/2009/05/sloppy-ups/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 20:42:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bambi Vincent</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/?p=1076</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Four days away from an international trip and Bob and I have no passports. Scary. They were perfectly good and valid still for five years, until they were punctured and made invalid by Federal agents in Los Angeles. The only &#8230; <a href="http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/2009/05/sloppy-ups/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>15</slash:comments>
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		<title>Social engineering—is it time to curtail trust?</title>
		<link>http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/2009/04/social-engineering/</link>
		<comments>http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/2009/04/social-engineering/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:17:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bambi Vincent</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Scams]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/?p=1038</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A couple of scumbags have been casing neighborhoods in Las Vegas, preying on elders. They chat up residents, pretending to be a former resident or a relative of a neighbor. They ask questions and gather information. When they&#8217;ve learned enough &#8230; <a href="http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/2009/04/social-engineering/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Las Vegas&#8217; most prolific prostitutes</title>
		<link>http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/2009/02/vegas-prostitutes/</link>
		<comments>http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/2009/02/vegas-prostitutes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 01:46:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bambi Vincent</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Vegas]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/?p=943</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[52-Pickup—Las Vegas police are suddenly, aggressively, picking up prostitutes in the &#8220;resort corridor&#8221; of the city. Armed with a deck—or a list, anyway—of our &#8220;50 most prolific prostitutes,&#8221; vice cops nabbed almost half of them in the first two weeks &#8230; <a href="http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/2009/02/vegas-prostitutes/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Las Vegas people</title>
		<link>http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/2009/02/las-vegas/</link>
		<comments>http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/2009/02/las-vegas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2009 00:07:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bambi Vincent</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/?p=937</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s no question that Las Vegas attracts an upside-down bell curve of residents, no matter what scale one uses for measurement. We have a lot of gamblers, drunks, deadbeats, quick-buck-artists (or wannabes), fraudsters, greedsters, and lowlifes. We have transients, dreamers, &#8230; <a href="http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/2009/02/las-vegas/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Requiem for a tree</title>
		<link>http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/2009/01/requiem-for-a-tree/</link>
		<comments>http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/2009/01/requiem-for-a-tree/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:09:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bambi Vincent</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/?p=872</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It was a mesquite, 35 or so feet tall, graceful in an awkward way. Craving light, the poor thing crooked its trunk this way and that, having been stupidly planted under a roof and beside a wall. I&#8217;ve liked the &#8230; <a href="http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/2009/01/requiem-for-a-tree/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Criminal on the loose</title>
		<link>http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/2008/12/criminal-on-the-loose-2/</link>
		<comments>http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/2008/12/criminal-on-the-loose-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2008 00:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bambi Vincent</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/?p=805</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Why am I compelled to run outside every time I hear the police helicopter hovering over my house? If there&#8217;s a criminal on the loose, isn&#8217;t it possible, at least remotely possible, that he&#8217;ll run into my yard to hide? &#8230; <a href="http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/2008/12/criminal-on-the-loose-2/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>When courtesy is exhausting</title>
		<link>http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/2008/12/courtesy-is-exhausting/</link>
		<comments>http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/2008/12/courtesy-is-exhausting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 23:24:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bambi Vincent</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Vegas]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/?p=848</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Had to go to the Apple store in the mall last night, and it turned into a long visit while Bob sorted out some issues with windows on his Mac. I left and wandered around the mall, an activity I &#8230; <a href="http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/2008/12/courtesy-is-exhausting/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Luggage theft at Las Vegas airport carousels</title>
		<link>http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/2008/09/carousel-luggage-theft/</link>
		<comments>http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/2008/09/carousel-luggage-theft/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 04:22:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bambi Vincent</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/?p=631</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Big article in today&#8217;s Las Vegas Review Journal on bag theft at the McCarran airport carousels. No surprise. This isn&#8217;t new. In my book, I wrote: It&#8217;s rare, nowadays, to find an airport that checks bag tags. Our policy is &#8230; <a href="http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/2008/09/carousel-luggage-theft/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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