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  2. List of scams - Wikipedia

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    A "trade show" variation of a similar scam might involve a scammer pretending to have car troubles on the side of a highway, trying to hail passing vehicles. When a good Samaritan pulls over, the person claims to be a foreign citizen visiting the country to participate in some local trade show.

  3. 'This could happen to anybody': California man says a hacker ...

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    Monitoring your accounts and reporting any suspicious activity quickly may also be helpful. If you've been the victim of a similar crime, you can report it to the FBI’s Internet Crimes ...

  4. 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.

  5. 1992 Indian stock market scam - Wikipedia

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    The biggest money market scam ever committed in India, amounting to approximately ₹ 5,000 crores. The main perpetrator of the scam was a stock and money market broker Harshad Mehta. It was a systematic stock scam using fake bank receipts and stamp paper that caused the Indian stock market to crash. The scam exposed the inherent loopholes of ...

  6. SEC blames ‘SIM swap’ attack for disastrous X hack ... - AOL

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    On Jan. 9, crypto industry onlookers monitored SEC accounts for any notice of the agency's decision on Bitcoin ETFs, a financial vehicle that would allow investors to trade the popular ...

  7. Embarrassing cheque - Wikipedia

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    The scam was supposedly performed by a company selling pornography or other sex aids and trading under a highly explicit name. Customers were invited to purchase adult material from the company, and were assured that the actual transaction could be made with a separate company with a non-explicit name in order to prevent the explicit name from ...

  8. SIM swap scam - Wikipedia

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    A SIM swap scam (also known as port-out scam, SIM splitting, [1] simjacking, and SIM swapping) [2] is a type of account takeover fraud that generally targets a weakness in two-factor authentication and two-step verification in which the second factor or step is a text message (SMS) or call placed to a mobile telephone.

  9. Best online brokers for buying and selling cryptocurrency in ...

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    Tastytrade charges 1 percent of the trade value on the buy and sell, but only up to $10 per side of the trade. So once you’re trading more than $1,000, your crypto commissions here flatline at a ...