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The Spanish Prisoner scam—and its modern variant, the advance-fee scam or "Nigerian letter scam"—involves enlisting the mark to aid in retrieving some stolen money from its hiding place. The victim sometimes believes they can cheat the con artists out of their money, but anyone trying this has already fallen for the essential con by ...
A California woman lost thousands to a scammer posing as Keanu Reeves. Romance scams are common online, with older Americans facing the largest financial losses. Americans lost about $650 million ...
A seller pays someone a small amount to place a fake order, or just uses another person's information to place an order themselves. [5] Because a shipment usually has to take place for an order to be considered valid by the e-commerce site, the seller will frequently ship an empty box or some cheap item.
Homeowners across the U.S. are being targeted in a sophisticated scam in which callers pose as mortgage lenders to defraud people out of hundreds of thousands of dollars, ...
In December 2011, film exhibitor Norman Adie pleaded guilty in U.S. Federal Court to running a Ponzi scheme in New York and Pennsylvania. [ 117 ] In December 2011, the SEC accused Wendell Jacobson and his son Allen, both of Fountain Green, Utah , of operating a $200 million Ponzi scheme that promised to invest in property and made heavy use of ...
The well-acted, confidently crafted indie “Scrap” probes messy family dynamics with low-key but taut acuity, avoiding the usual poles of dysfunctional-clan comedy or high drama driven by ...
Consumers requested a pre-paid envelope known as a "Refiner's Pack", which was used to ship their gold materials or precious metals to the Cash4Gold refinery in Florida.A Cash4Gold employee weighed, photographed, and assessed the items using tools such as acids, X-rays, and electronic testing devices.
Looking at an X-ray film you might spot fractured bones or even floating foreign objects — but hidden within the film itself there is a tiny amount of silver. Now, The Royal Mint, the UK’s ...