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2. Banks and the federal government point fingers as Americans ...

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   Banks and the federal government are in a similar situation, pointing to each other to solve the problem of online financial scams. For its part, the government wants banks to take on more ...

3. List of scams - Wikipedia

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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".

4. List of United States federal officials convicted of ...

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   The first type are also applicable to corrupt state and local officials: [1] the mail and wire fraud statutes (enacted 1872), including the honest services fraud provision, [2] the Hobbs Act (enacted 1934), [3] the Travel Act (enacted 1961), [4] and the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) (enacted 1970).

5. 15 Common Financial Scams — And How to Avoid Them - AOL

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   Money for Nothing. Every year, about 90% of consumers either fall for or encounter online scams. And while many consumers are sophisticated enough to avoid some of the most common scams, it doesn ...

6. Scams stealing government benefits like unemployment checks ...

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   How are scammers stealing identities for government benefits? The top way the scam starts is with a phone call, the FTC's Cox said. Those calls can even come from caller IDs pretending to be from ...

7. List of fact-checking websites - Wikipedia

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   Fact Check Armenia: a website with ties to Turkish government-related organizations that denies the historical facts of the Armenian genocide. [230] [231] Fact Checking Turkey: operated by PR company Bosphorus Global and counters criticism of Turkey in foreign media. It treats statements by Turkish government officials as arbiters of the truth.

8. How to identify a scam call before you're taken advantage of

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   Make sure you know these 10 common online scams—and how ... But it can still be jarring to get an official-sounding call from someone claiming to be from this government office. In this scam ...

9. COVID-19 scams - Wikipedia

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   In this variation of COVID-19 scams, the fraudster claims that the victim is eligible for a COVID-19 benefit payment. This scam is a derivative of the advance-fee scam, where the scammer will ask the victim for a small payment in return for the 'benefit'. The scammer will then ask for further payments under the guise of problems, until the ...