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[36] [37] He briefly was the owner of the New York Post. At the time the SEC considered the fraud to be "one of the largest Ponzi schemes in history." [38] In late 1994, the European Kings Club collapsed, with ensuing losses of about $1.1 billion. This scam was led by Damara Bertges and Hans Günther Spachtholz.
The scam originally targeted Japanese tourists due to the high price of honeymelon (cantaloupe) in Japan. The scammer may receive upwards of $100 for "compensation". [ 40 ] [ 41 ] The scam has also been called broken glasses scam or broken bottle scam where the scammer will pretend the mark broke a pair of expensive glasses or use a bottle of ...
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) released a statement last year saying that its Internet Crime Complaint Center had received over 2,000 complaints from people who received the unpaid toll ...
The New York Times noted in a December 2016 article that fake news had previously maintained a presence on the Internet and within tabloid journalism in years prior to the 2016 U.S. election. [11] However, prior to the election between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, fake news had not impacted the election process to such a high degree. [11]
In May 2014 the Australian search engine Yahoo!7 blocked the Ripoff Report after multiple defamation complaints. [27] It was unblocked after about a week. [28] Ripoff Report's publisher, Xcentric Ventures, LLC, unsuccessfully sued consumers and their attorneys for malicious prosecution in federal district court in Phoenix, Arizona in 2011.
Building at Olympus head office in Tokyo. Olympus Corporation, a major Japanese manufacturer of optical imaging laboratory and medical equipment listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange had, according to its accounts for the year ended 31 March 2011, consolidated net sales of ¥847.1 billion (US$10.6 billion) in the year, and total shareholders' equity of ¥262.5 billion (US$3.3 billion).
With access to financing via GMAC, from 1980 McNamara applied for a series of loans to buy non-GM vans, valued at US$25,000 each, [4] which he said would be customized, before being pre-sold and shipped to the Mediterranean island country of Cyprus.