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2. 100 Most Common Money Scams and How To Avoid Them - AOL

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   3. ‘I’m a Nigerian prince.’. The “Nigerian prince” scam is one of the oldest since the internet was invented. A wealthy individual claims they can’t access their money for some reason ...

3. List of Ponzi schemes - Wikipedia

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   1860s. Jacob Young, William Abrams, and Nancy Clem ran what author Wendy Gamber argues, in her book The Notorious Mrs. Clem: Murder and Money in the Gilded Age, was the first-ever Ponzi scheme. [ 1][ 2] In Munich, Germany, Adele Spitzeder founded the "Spitzedersche Privatbank" in 1869, promising an interest rate of 10 percent per month.

4. List of scams - Wikipedia

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   Change raising, also known as a quick-change artist, [66] is a common short con and involves an offer to change an amount of money with someone, while at the same time taking change or bills back and forth to confuse the person as to how much money is actually being changed. The most common form, "the Short Count", has been featured prominently ...

5. Top 15 financial scams targeting older Americans — and what ...

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   Financial scams are among the most common crimes out there. And seniors are taking the brunt of it. The FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) received more than 101,000 reports of scams and ...

6. 3 Common Digital Transaction Scams: How You Can Avoid Them - AOL

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   Fraud cost consumers $8.8 billion in 2022, the Federal Trade Commission reported last year, and scammers are making more money per fraud than they were the year before.

7. List of corporate collapses and scandals - Wikipedia

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   The Bank of England refused to advance money, and it collapsed. The directors were sued, but exonerated from fraud. Friedrich Krupp. Germany. 1873. Steel, metals. Krupp's business over-expanded, and had to take a 30m Mark loan from the Preußische Bank, the Bank of Prussia . Danatbank. Germany.

8. The Biggest Money Scams of All Time - AOL

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   4. Nicholas Cosmo, Agape World Inc. Ponzi Scheme Nicholas Cosmo has been at the center of numerous money scams. After serving 21 months in jail for defrauding investors, Cosmo founded Agape World ...

9. Securities fraud - Wikipedia

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   Securities fraud, also known as stock fraud and investment fraud, is a deceptive practice in the stock or commodities markets that induces investors to make purchase or sale decisions on the basis of false information. [ 1] [failed verification][ 2][ 3] The setups are generally made to result in monetary gain for the deceivers, and generally ...