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Scott Richter (born 18 July 1971) is the CEO of Media Breakaway, [2] formerly known as OptInRealBig.com LLC. [2] Other related companies are Dynamic Dolphin [3] and affiliate.com. [4] His companies were major senders of Email spam and he was at one time referred to as the 'Spam King', as at one point his company was sending some 100 million emails a day.
Trust No One: The Hunt for the Crypto King is a Netflix original documentary film directed by Luke Sewell. [1] Its story follows a group of cryptocurrency investors who lost money in the collapse of the QuadrigaCX exchange.
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.
This would ultimately be surpassed by the Wall Street Market exit scam of 2019, which had $14.2 million worth of cryptocurrencies stolen just before the site was seized by the authorities. [9] Prosecution is difficult due to the anonymity offered by the darknet. The damage caused by exit scams is estimated to exceed $4.3 billion in 2019. [10] [11]
Sanford 'Spamford' Wallace [1] (born c. 1968) [2] is an Internet spammer.He initially sent junk faxes before coming to notoriety in 1997, promoting himself as the original "Spam King".
Scam methods may operate in reverse, with a stranger (not the registrar) communicating an offer to buy a domain name from an unwary owner. The offer is not genuine, but intended to lure the owner into a false sales process, with the owner eventually pressed to send money in advance to the scammer for appraisal fees or other purported services.
The British peerage includes the titles of (in ascending order) baron, viscount, earl, marquess and duke.All of these titleholders, except dukes, are (if male) known by the honorific "Lord" (in Scotland the lowest rank in the peerage is "Lord (of Parliament)" rather than "Baron").
Victor Lustig (German pronunciation: [ˈvɪktoːɐ̯ ˈlʊstɪç]; January 4, 1890 – March 11, 1947) [1] [2] was a con artist from Austria-Hungary, who undertook a criminal career that involved conducting scams across Europe and the United States during the early 20th century.