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Artists Against 419 - Fake Sites Database index page Artists Against 419 - Fake Sites Database detail page. Artists Against 419 (commonly abbreviated to AA419) is an Internet consumer protection group dedicated to identifying and shutting down 419 scam websites. Its volunteers seek to stop, disrupt or hinder fraudsters' activities by cataloging ...
The Justice Department has charged 64 people in a fraud case they say bilked $300 million from more than 100,000 victims.
The con artist pretends to accidentally drop his wallet in a public place. After an unsuspecting victim picks up the wallet and offers it to the con artist, the scam begins. The artist accuses the victim of stealing money from the wallet and threatens to call the police, scaring the victim into returning the allegedly stolen money.
Scammers and bad actors are always looking for ways to get personal info with malicious intent. Know how to recognize legitimate AOL websites, requests, and communications to keep your account secure.
Stack began an investigation into Rose Marks and family in 2007 before retiring from the Fort Lauderdale Police Department. [3] [5] A subsequent federal investigation, "Operation Crystal Ball", resulted in a sixty-one-count indictment, unsealed on August 16, 2011, charging Marks and eight family members with crimes spanning twenty years.
A con artist swindled a senior in Lynwood, Washington, out of $624,000 in life savings in a gold bar scam investigators suspect could be part of a larger ring. ... out of $624,000 in life savings ...
A Nebraska couple was recently scammed out of $115,000 in a “very unusual” and “scary” fraud scheme, investigators say. A couple — ages 71 and 68 — were at their home in Lancaster ...
The National Association of Artists' Organizations (NAAO) was, from 1982 through the early 2000s, a Washington, D.C.–based arts service organization which, at its height, had a constituency of over 700 artists' organizations, arts institutions, artists and arts professionals representing a cross-section of diverse aesthetics, geographic, economic, ethnic and gender-based communities ...