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The Book of Swindles (Piàn jīng 騙經), also known by its longer title, A New Book for Foiling Swindlers, Based on Worldly Experience (Jiānghú lìlǎn dùpiàn xīnshū 江湖歷覽杜騙新書), is said to be the first published and printed Chinese short story collection about fraud. [1]
Swindle (chess), a ruse by which a chess player in a losing position tricks his opponent; Swindle (Transformers), several fictional characters in the Transformers universe; Swindle, a 2008 children's book by Gordon Korman; Swindle, a bi-monthly arts and culture publication from 2004 to 2009; The Swindle, a 2015 video game
The Book of Swindles (Du pian xin shu, 1617) - story collection by Zhang Yingyu; China's first collection of stories about fraud, featuring twenty-four categories of swindle, circa late Ming dynasty The Government Inspector (1836) – play by Nikolai Gogol ; the main character deceives the corrupt officials of a small town into believing that ...
Maududi wrote 73 books, [64] 120 booklets and pamphlets, and made more than 1,000 speeches and press statements. [59] His magnum opus was the 30 years in progress translation in Urdu of the Qur'an, Tafhim ul-Qur'an (The Meaning of the Qur'an, also Introductions to the Qur'an), intended to give the Qur'an a self-claim interpretation. It became ...
Agha Hasan Abedi was born in Lucknow, British India, to a Urdu Speaking Muhajir middle class family with members who served as advisors and courtiers to the Nawab of Awadh. [4] He received a master's degree in English literature and a law degree from Lucknow University. [6] Abedi migrated to Pakistan after the creation of Pakistan in 1947. [4]
Fraud has rapidly adapted to the Internet. The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) of the FBI received 847,376 reports in 2021 with a reported loss of money of $6.9 billion in the US alone. [ 9 ] The Global Anti Scam Alliance annual Global State of Scam Report, stated that globally $47.8 billion was lost and the number of reported scams ...
His surname has become a concept in the Finnish language, meaning a deceptive charming trickster. [8] [9] Mehmet Aydın, Turkish entrepreneur; scammed 1.1 billion lira from 132 thousand people in a single year and went underground. [10] [11] Searched by Interpol with red notice due to qualified fraud. [12] [13] [14]
A money mule, sometimes called a "smurfer", [1] is a person who transfers money acquired illegally, such as by theft or fraud. Money mules transfer funds in person, through a courier service, or electronically, on behalf of others. Typically, the mule is paid for services with a small part of the money transferred.