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Scams and confidence tricks are difficult to classify, because they change often and often contain elements of more than one type. Throughout this list, the perpetrator of the confidence trick is called the "con artist" or simply "artist", and the intended victim is the "mark".
• Fake email addresses - Malicious actors sometimes send from email addresses made to look like an official email address but in fact is missing a letter(s), misspelled, replaces a letter with a lookalike number (e.g. “O” and “0”), or originates from free email services that would not be used for official communications.
The thief behind this scam had allegedly tricked at least 19 people out of $17,600 total across the state by requesting victims to pay for “insurance” through Cash App and pocketing the cash.
Odometer fraud was depicted in the opening scene of the 1980 film Used Cars and by Danny DeVito's character. In Ferris Bueller's Day Off , after valet attendants Sam and Victor take Cameron's father's Ferrari for a joyride, Ferris runs the wheels backwards in a futile attempt to reduce the mileage; running the vehicle in reverse did not move ...
The Better Business Bureau (BBB) is an American private, 501(c)(6) nonprofit organization founded in 1912. BBB's self-described mission is to focus on advancing marketplace trust, [2] consisting of 92 independently incorporated local BBB organizations in the United States and Canada, coordinated under the International Association of Better Business Bureaus (IABBB) in Arlington, Virginia.
An example of the scam text people may receive reads as follows: "Pay your FastTrak Lane tolls by February 13, 2025. To avoid a fine and keep your license, you can pay at https://ezdrivema.com-xlk ...
The best way to protect yourself against email phishing scams is to avoid falling victim to them in the first place. "Simply never take sensitive action based on emails sent to you," Steinberg says.
Michael Eugene Kelly (6 October 1949 – 22 December 2013) was a dual citizen of the U.S. and Mexico [1] who operated a number of fraudulent resort enterprises and the Avanti Motor Corporation.