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Crowded House

They thought that they’d found the perfect New York apartment. They weren’t alone.

Tad Friend New Yorker May 2013 30min Permalink

Crime Tech World

Inside the US Government's War on Tech Support Scammers

The fall of PCCare247, an Indian company in the business of selling fixes to problems that didn’t exist.

Nate Anderson Ars Technica May 2014 15min Permalink

Crime

The Murder Hustle

How a Harvard-educated neurologist, a courtly southern gentlemen, and a Hollywood rent boy ended up at the center of an international manhunt that spread from the staid business community of Columbus, Ohio to the coffee shops of Amsterdam.

  1. Part I: The Murder Hustle

  2. Part II: The Trail of a Hustler

  3. Part III: The End of the Hustle

Ann Louise Bardach Vanity Fair Oct 1989 2h15min Permalink