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The Maria Duval scam is one of the most successful mail scams in history, having defrauded millions of people out of at least $200 million over twenty years. Targeting sick and elderly people through a combination of personalized letters and personal information databases, it has been shut down in the United States in 2016, but is still ongoing in many countries.
The Signpost has identified an extensive scam perpetrated by a company that calls itself "Elite Wiki Writers" or "Wiki Moderator", among many other names. Some of the other names they are suspected of using include wikicuratorz.com, wikiscribes.com, wikimastery.com, and wikimediafoundetion.com.
Report the scam: Report the incident to your local law enforcement agency or the cybercrime unit in your country. Provide them with all the information you have about the scammer and the ...
Scammers target a variety of people, though research by Microsoft suggests that millennials (defined by Microsoft as age 24-37) and people part of generation Z (age 18-23) have the highest exposure to tech support scams and the Federal Trade Commission has found that seniors (age 60 and over) are more likely to lose money to tech support scams.
The Media Research Center (MRC) is an American conservative content analysis and media watchdog group based in Herndon, Virginia, and founded in 1987 by L. Brent Bozell III. [ 2 ] The nonprofit MRC has received financial support primarily from Robert Mercer , [ 3 ] but with several other conservative-leaning sources, including the Bradley ...
Hindenburg Research LLC was a U.S. investment research firm with a focus on activist short-selling founded by Nathan Anderson in 2017. [2] [3] [4] Named after the 1937 Hindenburg disaster, which they characterize as a human-made avoidable disaster, [5] the firm generated public reports via its website that allege corporate fraud and malfeasance. [6]
The center is a non-profit research institute, affiliated with the Carroll School of Management at Boston College. [8] All of the CRR's research and publications are available to the public on its website. [9] The center sponsors multiple research projects and disseminates the findings, trains new scholars, and provides access to data on ...
Various journal review websites (crowd-sourced or expert-run) have been started, some focusing on the quality of the peer review process and extending to non-OA publications. [128] [129] A group of libraries and publishers launched an awareness campaign. [130] [131] A number of measures have been suggested to further combat predatory journals.