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In a typical post, participants are given a list of six names and are asked to send one gift (or book, or bottle of wine) valued at about $10–15 USD to the person at the top of the list. They are then asked to remove the person in the top spot, move the person in the number two spot to the top, add themselves to the number two spot, and ...
White Elephant, Dirty Santa, Yankee Swap. It's the Christmas gift exchange that goes by a hundred names, with thousands of different rules that vary family to family.
The Amazon Echo Show 8 is a smart speaker, music player, video-call maker, weather predictor, and recipe displayer. It's a great gift for grandparents looking for easier ways to connect with their ...
The blessing scam targets elderly Chinese immigrant women, convincing them that an evil spirit threatens their family and that this threat can be removed by a blessing ceremony involving a bag filled with their savings, jewelry or other valuables. During the ceremony, the con artists switch the bag of valuables with an identical bag with ...
Scam letter posted within South Africa. An advance-fee scam is a form of fraud and is a common confidence trick.The scam typically involves promising the victim a significant share of a large sum of money, in return for a small up-front payment, which the fraudster claims will be used to obtain the large sum.
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He settled a civil suit with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for $60 million. [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 ...
The union has Melissa King oversee union benefits for retirement, but she instead scams $42 million from the workers fund. In case 2, Montana ladies-man Carl Estep cons money to fund his gold scam, saying he has hundreds of barrels of 'gold concentrate' that he needs cash to refine. The drums have only dirt in them.