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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.
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.
It has since become one of the leading sources of user-generated reviews and ratings for businesses. Yelp grew in usage and raised several rounds of funding in the following years. By 2010, it had $30 million in revenue, and the website had published about 4.5 million crowd-sourced reviews. From 2009 to 2012, Yelp expanded throughout Europe and ...
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 ...
Robert Butler (September 25, 1943 – March 19, 2014) was a postwar and contemporary artist best known for his portrayals of the woods and backwaters around Florida's Everglades. He was a member of the well-known African-American artists group, The Highwaymen. [1] [2]
This article originally appeared on The Providence Journal: Police in RI warn homeowners of 'contractor' con-artist scam. Show comments. Advertisement. Advertisement. Holiday Shopping Guides.
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 ...