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Stanley Mark Rifkin (born in 1946) is a convicted criminal in the United States responsible for stealing $10.2 million through wire transfer via telephone in the autumn of 1978. At the time, it was the largest bank theft in U.S. history.
In this swindle, a scammer will call an unsuspecting victim and tell them that they qualify for a discount on their utility bill if they provide their customer account number. After doing so, the scammer switches the customer to a different utility; after a brief introductory period, "rates may suddenly skyrocket" and victims can find ...
It was a 10-foot-tall (3.0 m), roughly 3,000 pound [1] purported "petrified man", uncovered on October 16, 1869 by workers digging a well behind the barn of William C. "Stub" Newell, in Cardiff, New York. He covered the giant with a tent and it soon became an attraction site. [1]
The conspiracy and wire fraud charges are punishable by a maximum of 20 years in prison and a maximum fine of either $250,000 or twice the gain or loss from the offense, whichever is greatest.
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
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In October 2002, he pleaded guilty to charges of securities fraud, bank fraud, obstruction of justice, and perjury. [59] Ferdinand Ward, financial swindler in the late 1800s; Dina Wein Reis pled guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud in May 2011, having duped corporations out of tens of millions of dollars. [60]
The scam then becomes an advance-fee fraud or a check fraud. A wide variety of reasons can be offered for the trickster's lack of cash, but rather than just borrow the money from the victim (advance fee fraud), the con-artist normally declares that they have checks which the victim can cash on their behalf and remit the money via a non ...