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The 2013 Kerala solar panel scam occurred in 2013, when a solar energy company, Team Solar, in Kerala, India, used two women to create political contacts with links including to the Chief Minister's office. The company duped several influential people to the tune of 70 lakhs, by offering to make them business partners, or by offering to install ...
The company was founded in 2008 in Concord, California, by Jeffrey Carpoff, an auto mechanic. [5] [6] Berkshire Hathaway invested $340 million in the company. [7]The company supplied solar panels, named Solar Eclipse, [8] to various higher education facilities (using a subsidiary, DC Solar Freedom, for education-related partnerships) such as California State University and Long Beach City ...
Per Identity Guard, “In one common scam, fraudsters create a fake Facebook page for a familiar company, state lottery, or sweepstakes, and either post offers for free prizes or send victims ...
Solyndra rolled its CIGS thin films into a cylindrical shape and placed 40 of them in each 1-by-2-metre (3 ft 3 in by 6 ft 7 in) panel. Solyndra designers thought the cylindrical solar panels absorbed energy from any direction (direct, indirect, and reflected light). [40] Each Solyndra cylinder, one inch in diameter, is made up of two tubes.
Fraudsters may steal mail and use that information to further their schemes. Until stricter regulations are in place to limit this type of fraud, stay vigilant and set up fraud alerts.
Criminals use the periods after natural disasters to deploy price gouging, impersonation methods and internet scams with the intent of stealing your personal information and money, authorities said.
The Artists Against 419 site was set up in October 2003 and began tackling fraudulent websites in an artistic way: by hotlinking their images to drain their small bandwidth allowance over their monthly limit. Over time the fraudulent sites have evolved and so have the Artists.
Scammers can make a fake phone number look legitimate — and that's just one of their techniques. Learn more about avoiding phishing scams here, and hear the story of someone victimized by one so ...