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2. 6 Investment Scam Red Flags and How To Avoid Them - AOL

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   Even more frightening is how investing scams are becoming more and more tech savvy by the day, with scammers able to bypass dual authentication blocks and design illegitimate websites or portals ...

3. Investor Alert: Relationship Investment Scams - AOL

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   The SEC's Office of Investor Education and Advocacy (OIEA), the Commodity Futures Trading Commission's Office of Customer Education and Outreach (OCEO), the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority ...

4. List of Ponzi schemes - Wikipedia

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   In the third and the biggest Philippine Ponzi scam (involving $150 million and $250 million, respectively), criminal charges, based on a suit filed by 21,000 complainants, were filed in June 2008, with the Department of Justice, against Performance Investments Products Corp (PIPC) officers and incorporators for violation of the Securities ...

5. AI 'deepfake' videos make investment scams harder to ... - AOL

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   The videos are being used in investment scams, such as romance swindles, and in other ways. ... Americans filed more than 880,000 online fraud complaints last year with the FBI's Internet Crime ...

6. Obinwanne Okeke - Wikipedia

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   Obinwanne Okeke (born November 9, 1987) also known as Invictus Obi is a Nigerian entrepreneur and convicted fraudster who is currently serving a ten-year prison sentence in the United States for internet fraud that caused $11M losses to his victims. [1]

7. Great Oil Sniffer Hoax - Wikipedia

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   The Great Oil Sniffer Hoax was a 1979 scandal involving French oil company Elf Aquitaine. The company spent millions of dollars developing a new gravity wave-based oil detection system, which was later revealed to be a scam. Elf lost over $150 million in the hoax. In France, the scandal is known as the "Avions Renifleurs" ("Sniffer Planes"). [1]

8. Investment scams are everywhere on social media. Here's how ...

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   Social media is full of scammers promising guaranteed returns on investment, and consumers lost billions of dollars to them last year. Troy Gochenour, 50, of Columbus, Ohio, was conned out of ...

9. 5 Financial Scams To Avoid in 2024 as Expert Warns Fraud Has ...

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   The FTC reported that consumers reported losing more money to investment scams — more than $3.8 billion — than any other category in 2022. As CNBC noted, with investment scams, crypto is ...