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Experts are warning that fraudsters are exploiting Black Friday sales to target U.S. shoppers with fake websites and ads for major brands like IKEA, Wayfair and The North Face, after online scams ...
Like Scamanda, whose subject Amanda Riley raised money to fund care she wasn’t getting, Peacock’s 2024 docuseries Anatomy of Lies unravels the yarns of a woman who faked her cancer diagnosis.
A young woman will contact a victim and tell him of her plight: not being able to remove the gold from her country as she is unable to pay the duty or marriage taxes. The woman will be unable to inherit the fortune until she gets married, the marriage being a prerequisite of the father, uncle or grandfather's will.
The family had paid the woman $1,200, set up a monthly payment plan, and moved into the residence. Then, the police showed up and told the family they were trespassing. "I was like, how was I ...
The Spanish Prisoner scam—and its modern variant, the advance-fee scam or "Nigerian letter scam"—involves enlisting the mark to aid in retrieving some stolen money from its hiding place. The victim sometimes believes they can cheat the con artists out of their money, but anyone trying this has already fallen for the essential con by ...
In April 2016, Casper sued three mattress review websites which had written negative reviews of Casper products. [48] According to the lawsuits, the websites steered potential customers of Casper products to competing mattress companies, which Casper claimed is a deceptive advertising practice. The lawsuit against one of the review websites ...
A savvy bank teller kept a local grandmother from falling victim to a recent grandparent scam, a type of fraud that tries to scare people into turning over money to save a loved one in crisis.
The company was founded in 1931 in Illinois as Sleeper, Inc. by 13 mattress manufacturers who licensed the Serta name. Subsequently, eight independent licensees acting like a cooperative owned the company. Afterwards, it was controlled and operated as Serta International by its largest licensee, National Bedding Company, which ultimately held ...