High prices draw criminals to copper wire, metals
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Criminals do not normally monitor commodities markets, but high metals prices have grabbed their attention, fueling more thefts of copper wire and other items whose metal components can be sold for scrap.
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Several cities outside the U.S. have sustained attacks on utility systems and extortion demands.
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Soaring global demand for copper is a growing threat to the British railway network leading to a surge in trackside metal theft, police have warned. Copper theft caused more than 240,000 minutes of delays for train passengers last year after a near-fivefold rise in robberies at tracks and depots.
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People are sometimes more extravagant with currencies that have high face values.
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The U.S. Mint has implemented a law against melting down pennies and nickels which, at current metal prices, could be worth more as metal than as currency.
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The highly classified program has provoked opposition from lawmakers questioning its necessity and rapidly escalating price.
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There are hundreds of dollars in your wallet that you can't see.
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Copper prices declined a further 2  percent on Thursday on selling by hedge funds that has toppled  the key industrial metal off 16-year peaks hit on Monday.
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Wiretapping Internet phones to monitor criminals and terrorists is costly and complex, and potentially a big burden on new businesses trying to sell the phone service.
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Earlier this year, it appeared that the West was about to embark on one of its periodic bouts of inflation. Commodity prices were rising swiftly.
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Criminals are adopting the principles of modern marketing to get their products onto users' computers.
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Plus, cheap Coke, OracleSoft, and your own personal Taser.
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Copper prices fall for the second day running amid fears of falling demand from key markets in China and the US.
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Given rising metal prices, the pennies and nickels in your pocket are worth more melted down than their face value -- and that has the government worried.
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Consumers pay the price for high merchant fees.
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Scammers and thieves are out there, but you can protect yourself.
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There's a new kind of theft growing in popularity -- be careful!