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Trusted Reviews was founded in 2003 by Hugh Chappell and Riyad Emeran as a response to the decline in sales of computer reviews magazines. Launched to provide a web only product for increasingly internet-literate users, access was deliberately made free to compete with paid-for magazine subscriptions. [1]
Reports on the purported scam are an Internet hoax, first spread on social media sites in 2017. [1] While the phone calls received by people are real, the calls are not related to scam activity. [1] According to some news reports on the hoax, victims of the purported fraud receive telephone calls from an unknown person who asks, "Can you hear me?"
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 24 December 2024. Online discussion forum hosted on the dark web Dread Type of site Dark web forum Available in English Owner HugBunter and Paris Created by HugBunter Registration Optional Launched 2018 ; 7 years ago (2018) Current status Active (.onion only) Dread is a Reddit -like dark web discussion ...
An overpayment scam, also known as a refund scam, is a type of confidence trick designed to prey upon victims' good faith.In the most basic form, an overpayment scam consists of a scammer claiming, falsely, to have sent a victim an excess amount of money.
The BALCO scandal was a scandal involving the use of banned performance-enhancing substances by professional athletes.. The Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative (BALCO) was a San Francisco Bay Area business which supplied anabolic steroids to professional athletes.
Scam Interceptors is a British factual television programme about Internet fraud. Inspired by a 2020 episode of Panorama featuring ethical hacker Jim Browning , the programme shows a television team (including presenters Rav Wilding and Nick Stapleton, Browning and others) as they monitor and intervene in scams in progress.
They have also been set up as a money making scam, selling fake qualifications which have no official accreditation, often at the taxpayer's expense. [ 2 ] To tackle the problem of bogus colleges the British Government established a register of approved education providers in 2005.
A 2005 review in CNS Drugs determined that "significant psychiatric symptoms including aggression and violence, mania, and less frequently psychosis and suicide have been associated with steroid abuse. Long-term steroid abusers may develop symptoms of dependence and withdrawal on discontinuation of AAS". [85]