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2. Visa is sued over 'Vanilla' gift card scam - AOL

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   Ira Schuman, who leads the proposed class action in the White Plains, New York, federal court, said he bought eight $500 Vanilla cards as holiday gifts for his employees in 2022 and 2023, only to ...

3. Here’s How to Avoid Falling for a Mystery Shopper Scam - AOL

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   Fake Company sends you a check for $500. They instruct you to buy a $500 value Target gift card with the money they sent. Then, they ask you to send pictures of the gift card redemption codes.

4. Holiday Scam: What Is Gift Card Draining Plus 4 Red Flags to ...

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   As Americans continue to slide through holiday mode, they're going to get more calls, emails and texts for legitimate shopping deals. But they're also increasingly going to be the targets of ...

5. List of Ponzi schemes - Wikipedia

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   1860s. Jacob Young, William Abrams, and Nancy Clem ran what author Wendy Gamber argues, in her book The Notorious Mrs. Clem: Murder and Money in the Gilded Age, was the first-ever Ponzi scheme. [ 1][ 2] In Munich, Germany, Adele Spitzeder founded the "Spitzedersche Privatbank" in 1869, promising an interest rate of 10 percent per month.

6. List of scams - Wikipedia

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   Three-card Monte, "find the queen", the "three-card trick", or "follow the lady" is essentially the same as the centuries-older shell game or thimblerig (except for the props). [48] The trickster shows three playing cards to the audience, one of which is a queen (the "lady"), then places the cards face-down, shuffles them around, and invites ...

7. McDonald's Monopoly - Wikipedia

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   The McDonald's Monopoly game is a sales promotion run by fast food restaurant chain McDonald's, with a theme based on the Hasbro board game Monopoly. The game first ran in the U.S. in 1987 and has since been used worldwide. The promotion has used other names, such as Monopoly: Pick Your Prize! (2001), Monopoly Best Chance Game (2003–2005 ...

8. Fraud and scams cost consumers a record $10 billion in ... - AOL

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   Another $217 million was lost when consumers put money on gift cards or reloadable prepaid cards as requested during a scam or fraud. ... up from $5,000 in 2022. Investment-related scams ranked No ...

9. Linux - Wikipedia

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   Linux is the leading operating system on servers (over 96.4% of the top one million web servers' operating systems are Linux), [28] leads other big iron systems such as mainframe computers, and is used on all of the world's 500 fastest supercomputers [d] (as of November 2017, having gradually displaced all competitors).