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Free energy proponents claim that Tesla developed a system (the Wardenclyffe Tower) that could generate unlimited energy for free. However, his system was only intended to transmit energy for free; the system's energy would still need to be generated through conventional means.
A lightning rod or lightning conductor (British English) is a metal rod mounted on a structure and intended to protect the structure from a lightning strike. If lightning hits the structure, it is most likely to strike the rod and be conducted to ground through a wire, rather than passing through the structure, where it could start a fire or ...
A New Zealand teenager sent thousands of scam texts using a fake cellphone tower before he was caught. The tactic is called "smishing." It uses a so-called SMS Blaster to trick cellphones.
Mobile tower fraud" may be defined as a type of mass marketing fraud with advance fee fraud characteristics, where the central scheme is the installation of a mobile tower in the victim's property. The victims are lured by the promise of huge rental income. Mobile tower fraudsters are targeting individuals of all ages and demographics.
Head's personal stories of surviving on the 78th floor of the south tower, encountering a dying man who gave her an inscribed wedding ring that she eventually returned to his wife, escaping with ...
Homeowners across the U.S. are being targeted in a sophisticated scam in which callers pose as mortgage lenders to defraud people out of hundreds of thousands of dollars, ...
Powerline worker performs maintenance of a lightning arrester on an electrical transmission tower in New Brunswick, Canada. A lightning arrester (alternative spelling lightning arrestor) (also called lightning isolator) is a device, essentially an air gap between an electric wire and ground, used on electric power transmission and telecommunication systems to protect the insulation and ...
Towers Financial Corporation was a debt collection agency based in Manhattan in New York City. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Between 1988 and 1993, Towers Financial ran a Ponzi scheme that was the largest financial fraud in American history prior to Bernie Madoff 's being uncovered.