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Newsgroup spam is a type of spam where the targets are Usenet newsgroups.Usenet convention defines spamming as excessive multiple posting, i.e. repeated posting of a message or very similar messages to newsgroups.
The scam is not new, Hopkinton Police Detective Sgt. Gregg A. DeBoer added. "This is a long-term thing," he said. "It's been going on for as long as I can remember.
Harvest Farm Group was a fictional cannabis industry entity established as part of a three-year scam. The perpetrator, Mark Roy Anderson – a repeat con artist and disbarred attorney who had recently been released from prison [ 1 ] – was charged by the US government with multiple counts of wire fraud .
If you get an email providing you a PIN number and an 800 or 888 number to call, this a scam to try and steal valuable personal info. These emails will often ask you to call AOL at the number provided, provide the PIN number and will ask for account details including your password.
Affinity frauds can involve the targeting of any group of people who take pride in their shared characteristics, whether they are religious, ethnic, or professional. Agencies such as the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission have investigated and taken action against affinity frauds targeting a wide spectrum of groups. [1]
Photo Illustration by Erin O'Flynn/The Daily Beast/GettyThe Internal Revenue Service has stripped tax-exempt status from the dark money outfit at the center of an alleged scheme by Steve Bannon to ...
Hundreds of phone calls this week that the South Dakota secretary of state has labeled a “scam” are originating from an anti-abortion group seeking to disqualify an abortion-rights ballot measure.
Milton group is the name given to an organized crime network of scamming operations, operating globally, and run largely from call centres in Tbilisi, Georgia and Kyiv, Ukraine. [ 1 ] BBC Eye Investigations uncovered 152 brands used by the Milton group, including Solo Capitals , an ostensible cryptocurrency trading firm in Georgia, CoinEvo and ...