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The fraud centered around the laundering of over $10 billion between FTX and Alameda Research, another company owned by Bankman-Fried. [15] Jordan Belfort swindled over $200 million via a penny stock boiler room operation. The Wolf of Wall Street is based on his life and fraudulent activity. [16]
МММ was a Russian company that perpetrated one of the world's largest Ponzi schemes of all time. By different estimates from 5 to 40 million people lost up to $10 billion. The company started attracting money from private investors, promising annual returns of up to 1,000%.
Claimed he was amnesic victim of World War I. Alvin Clarence "Titanic Thompson" Thomas (1892–1974): Gambler, golf hustler, proposition bet conman. Barton H. Watson (1960–2004): Former CEO of global technology company CyberNET who died of suicide after the FBI raided his offices. Watson was accused of stealing millions as a con man, but died ...
Quick Take: List of Scam Area Codes. More than 300 area codes exist in the United States alone which is a target-rich environment for phone scammers.
Top 10 Crypto Scams to Watch Out For. Scammers are constantly finding new ways to steal cryptocurrencies from unsuspecting users, taking advantage of the decentralized nature of the crypto industry.
Theranos' Elizabeth Holmes, once the wunderkind of Silicon Valley, is only the latest in a long line of corporate scammers. Ever since Charles Ponzi swindled millions from investors more than a ...
Nathan Blecharczyk, one of the founders of Airbnb, who paid his way through Harvard by providing spammers hosting services. [1] [2]Shane Atkinson, who was named in an interview by The New Zealand Herald as the man behind an operation sending out 100 million emails per day in 2003, who claimed (and appeared) to honor unsubscribe requests, and who claimed to be giving up spamming shortly after ...
The scammer begins with a large pool of marks, numbering ideally a power of two such as 1024 (2 10). The scammer divides the pool into two halves, and sends all the members of each half a prediction about the future outcome of an event with a binary outcome (such as a stock price rising or falling, or the win/loss outcome of a sporting event).