Fake Passports for Exhibit Seized in Ohio
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Fake passports created by an Austrian artist for a contemporary museum exhibit were confiscated at an airport after a customs agent thought they might be harmful if imported, government and museum officials said Tuesday.
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By Hannah Baker  INTERNET shoppers were today warned to beware web auction sellers in the West Midlands making a killing on selling fake goods.   Trading Standards officers in the area have discovered counterfeit clothing, handbags and DVDs sold in large quantities on the ebay site.
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With a quick imprint of a suspect's two fingers on a handheld device, Columbus police can get instant access to the person's identity without making a trip to the booking office.
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Warning unheeded as thousands of records exposed A stolen backup tape containing personal data on Ohio state workers also contained the names and Social Security numbers of around 225,000 state residents.â¦
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By Randy Ludlow, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio  Sep. 6--An Ohio University consultant has recovered interview notes and other documents behind its investigation of hacker thefts of personal data from campus computers.
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A stamp that first appeared to be a rare 1918 "Inverted Jenny," used by a Florida voter to mail an absentee ballot, is a counterfeit, experts said on Monday.
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By MATT REED  COLUMBUS, Ohio - The state has hired a computer security expert to determine the likelihood of someone getting access to the data on a stolen backup storage device, Gov. Ted Strickland said Sunday.
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A sculpture at a Chicago museum is unmasked as a fake created by a forger based in Bolton.
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TBILISI, Georgia -- The U.S. Secret Service and Georgian police are investigating an international counterfeiting operation that stretches from a separatist enclave in this former Soviet republic to Maryland, where fake $100 bills have been seized, according to senior officials and investigators...
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A stolen computer back-up tape contained the names and Social Security numbers of more than 64,000 Ohio state workers, it was reported Saturday.  The tape was stolen last Sunday from a state intern's unlocked car, Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland said at a news conference Friday.
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The U.S. Secret Service is working with police in the former Soviet republic of Georgia to investigate an international counterfeiting operation that produces fake $100 bills that have been seized in the United States and Israel, the Washington Post reported on Sunday.
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COLUMBUS, Ga. - A cache of cash found in the Columbus landfill was the result of a bank error, police said...
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LIMA, Peru  - Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo  was personally involved with faking signatures to register his  party for elections in 2000 and paid people for the forgeries,  a woman who said she witnessed the events said on Friday.
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Four leading Southern California museums were raided on Thursday by U.S. authorities investigating illegal smuggling of art from Thailand, China, Myanmar and from American Indian tribal lands.
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By Jude Webber and Marco Aquino LIMA, Peru  - Peruvian President Alejandro Toledowas personally involved with faking signatures to register hisparty for elections in 2000 and paid people for the forgeries,a woman who said she witnessed the events said on Friday.
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The federal government has released to CNN more than 100 photographs of a Halloween party that temporarily threatened to derail the nomination of a top Department of Homeland Security official.
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Hundreds of biblical artefacts in museums all over the world could be fakes, it has emerged after Israeli investigators uncovered what they claim is a sophisticated forgery ring.