Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Unfortunately, while there are legitimate opportunities for a very limited number of people to make some quick cash via this route, there are a lot of scammers prowling the internet attempting to ...
A vehicle matching scam works by people approaching owners who have put their cars up for sale in car sales publications and promising falsely to match the sellers with buyers in return for a one-off fee. [1] On most occasions however, no buyers are found and the agent takes the fee.
The Artists Against 419 site was set up in October 2003 and began tackling fraudulent websites in an artistic way: by hotlinking their images to drain their small bandwidth allowance over their monthly limit. Over time the fraudulent sites have evolved and so have the Artists.
People shopping for bootleg software, illegal pornographic images, bootleg music, drugs, firearms or other forbidden or controlled goods may be legally hindered from reporting swindles to the police. An example is the "big screen TV in the back of the truck": the TV is touted as "hot" (stolen), so it will be sold for a very low price.
That would have increased the potential sales prices of vehicles by thousand of dollars in some cases. In one example cited in the indictment, the mileage on a 2010 Nissan Xterra SE was cut from ...
Charity fraud, also known as a donation scam, is the act of using deception to obtain money from people who believe they are donating to a charity.Often, individuals or groups will present false information claiming to be a charity or associated with one, and then ask potential donors for contributions to this non-existent charity.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 13 January 2025. American automobile executive and fraudster "Liz Carmichael" redirects here. For the British portraitist, see Elizabeth Carmichael. Geraldine Elizabeth "Liz" Carmichael Carmichael, 1974 or 1975, with a model of the Dale automobile Born Jerry Dean Michael 1927 Indiana Died February 2004 ...
The miracle cars scam was an advance-fee scam run from 1997 to 2002 by Californians James R. Nichols and Robert Gomez. In its run of just over four years, over 4,000 people bought 7,000 cars that did not exist, netting over US$ 21 million from the victims.