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With a legacy of more than 100 years, the Better Business Bureau (BBB) is the go-to watchdog for evaluating businesses and charities. The nonprofit organization maintains a massive database of ...
SANDUSKY, Mich. (AP) - A woman who for years claimed she had end-stage cancer pleaded no contest Monday to fraud in a scheme that had brought her widespread sympathy and financial support in small ...
After paying expenses each year, Cancer Support Services has only 10 cents on the dollar left to ship to Cancer Fund." They were under investigation in 2013 after 11 years of operations. The Times/CIR called CSS a "boiler room operation" where "hundreds of callers solicit[ed] donations, then send the cash to Cancer Fund to make its fundraising ...
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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".
Fata's wife, Samar, helped run the business side of his practice as chief executive officer and chief financial officer of his companies. [6] While authorities believe she was a party to the fraud, she was able to move back to Lebanon after her husband's arrest; they have since divorced.
The charity was founded 1911 [4] as the Society for the Prevention and Relief of Cancer, by Douglas Macmillan following the death of his father from the disease. In 1924, the name was changed to the National Society for Cancer Relief, which it retained until 1989 when it was changed to Cancer Relief Macmillan Fund, later changed again to Macmillan Cancer Relief.
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.