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The Daily Telegraph, Australia

Britain's biggest ticket fraudster, Terry Shepherd, who duped hundreds of Australians in a global ticketing scam has been jailed for eight years in London for his "massively cynical" Olympic ticket scam.

Australians lost hundreds of thousands of dollars when they were tricked into buying tickets to the Beijing Olympics from a fake website.

The scam was uncovered by Sydney cyber crime expert Ken Gamble who exposed Shepherd and his cronies. Mr Gamble compiled a dossier showing the Olympic site and other websites had been registered to XL&H, a company based in Phoenix, Arizona, that was controlled by Shepherd and were fake.

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The Daily Telegraph, Australia

SOME of the world's leading cyber crime fighters are meeting in Sydney to discuss the growing epidemic of technology and Internet related crime.

Australia in particular has become a favourite hunting ground for internet fraudsters and identity thieves.

"Our culture is such that we are very trusting of others and this good Aussie nature can unfortunately be taken advantage of by cyber criminals who target your pockets and bank accounts,’’ said cyber crime expert and founder of Internet Fraud Watchdog, Ken Gamble..

“Australia has some of the highest incidences of cyber crime in the world.”

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The Daily Telegraph, Australia - 19th March 2011

TWO hours before the NRL season kicked off, a young hacker was politely told to shut down his illegal website which had been streaming live matches - or face going to jail.

The NRLfixit.com.au website was started last season by a Rozelle youngster just out of high school.

In two days, "Liam" - as he wants to be known - had 6000 members and by the end of last season the number had grown to 12,000. He believed he would have tripled that this year.

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Bournemouth Echo, England

8:40am Monday 25th January 2010
By Paula Roberts

A BOURNEMOUTH woman has spoken of the moment she discovered her missing two-year-old granddaughter had been found safe and well in Egypt.

Barbara Maas, of Throop, said she has not been able to stop smiling since her daughter Leila called to say she had been reunited with little A’ishah Sabra.

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May 11, 2009 - the powerful combination of Gamble’s unwavering commitment, expertise and heart resulted in the return of a young girl into her Australian mother’s arms after she was kidnapped by her Egyptian father at the age of four.

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The Sydney Morning Herald, Australia

By Jennifer Cooke

Britain's Serious Fraud Office (SFO) announced late last night, Sydney time, that the group, four men ages 41, 50, 51 and 54 and a 49-year-old woman were arrested, questioned and released on unconditional bail. The arrests by members of the SFO and the Metropolitan Police Service are part of an ongoing investigation into a suspected online fraud by companies including Xclusive Tickets Limited and Xclusive Leisure & Hospitality Limited (XL&H) which are both in liquidation and allegedly linked to Terence Frank Shepherd, of Blackheath in London.

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Herald Sun, Australia

THE mastermind behind the Beijing Olympics ticketing scam has a long history of internet-based fraud, says an Australian private investigator. Ken Gamble has been tracking the activities of Londoner Terence Shepherd, now believed to be based in Barbados, since 2003. Mr Gamble says Shepherd, 49, was behind a series of illegitimate ticket-selling operations which had targeted major sporting events, including Rugby World Cup matches in Australia.

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The Sydney Morning Herald, Australia

The mastermind behind the Beijing Olympics ticketing scam is believed to be a Briton with a long history of fraudulent ticket schemes, and it is not the first time Australians have been have been caught in his web.

Terance Shepherd, 49, a London online tout, was planning to "go out in style", a former colleague warned last year, after a British newspaper exposed another of his websites, online ticketshop.com, for selling non-existent World Cup tickets for England matches for as much as $6000 each.

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ABC Online

AM - Englishman behind ticket scam: private eye

[This is the print version of story http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2008/s2325368.htm]

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