Summer swindlers target elderly in Cedar Rapids waves
Cedar Rapids authorities and the Better Business Bureau warn of bidy home repair cheats, bank examiner plots, gas frauds, and health insurance scams. Elderly residents, often alone, are the prime targets as con artists refine old tricks to extract money.
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Cedar Rapids
Better Business Bureau
Linn County Sheriff's Office
Chamber of Commerce Better Business Bureau
George Griffin
Waubeek
John Kuba
Intelligence Bureau
Harold Ewoldt
Chamber of Commerce
Business-Consumers Bureau
National
Cedar Rapids Bureau
Senate
United States
Ewoldt
Woman Swindled Out Of 135 Dollars In Cedar Rapids
A 92 year old Cedar Rapids woman duped by a friendly off site visitor posing as a hearing aid representative. He persuaded her to withdraw 135 dollars and drive downtown to pay for a device, then vanished with no return. Police seek leads to prevent further cases.
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Griffin
Cedar Rapids
Indians Say Matka Game Wiped Out By Sumer Kaul
New Delhi AP reports police claim Matka a national racket, allegedly halted by a kingpin arrest this month. The piece details origin in Worli Bombay, how three cards produce opening and closing numbers, and payouts from nine to 14 thousand rupees for full six-number forecasts amid general gambling bans in India.
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New Delhi
New York
Matka
Worli
Bombay
Karlon
India
Record Cold in Antarctica Sets New U.S. Low
The National Science Foundation reports a July 20 low of 122 degrees below zero at Plateau Station in eastern Antarctica, five degrees above the Soviet Vostok claim. A new 116 mph Antarctic wind was logged at McMurdo Sound, the highest recorded by any nation. The Euphrates and the Tigris were the two rivers which watered the Garden of Eden.
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U.S
Antarctica
United States
National Science Foundation
United States’ Plateau Station
Soviet Union
Vostok
Plateau
McMurdo Sound
McMurdo
Euphrates
Tigris
Garden of Eden
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Lisbon
Illinois
Sheriff’s Office
Business Consumers Bureau
Chamber
Kuba
Rick Greenawalt
Henry A. Thompson
Tenth Street
Thompson
By Sumer Kaul
B. W. Joseph
Optometrist
West
Iowa City
Bank
Business Consumer Bureau of the
Health Cares
F.T.C
2Nd Ave
2Nd St
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