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The following is an alphabetical list of notable people known to have committed fraud. A Frank Abagnale Jr. , American impostor who wrote bad checks in 12 countries until arrested in 1969: falsely represented himself as a qualified member of professions such as airline pilot, doctor, attorney, and teacher; the film Catch Me If You Can is based ...
Jul. 26—TRAVERSE CITY — Two local sheriff's departments are asking people to watch out for fake phone calls from scammers pretending to be law enforcement officials. On Monday, the Emmet ...
Attackers who broke into TD Ameritrade's database and took 6.3 million email addresses (though they were not able to obtain social security numbers, account numbers, names, addresses, dates of birth, phone numbers and trading activity) also wanted the account usernames and passwords, so they launched a follow-up spear phishing attack. [27] 2008
Magazine subscriptions scam - Scammers call victims with an intriguing offer and that for a small payment they can get a yearly subscription to their favorite magazine, even though they have no affiliation with the magazine's publisher. When victims agree, the scammers will send random magazines with grossly inflated prices.
Quick Take: List of Scam Area Codes. More than 300 area codes exist in the United States alone which is a target-rich environment for phone scammers.
The scammers are winning. Sophisticated overseas criminals are stealing tens of billions of dollars from Americans every year, a crime wave projected to get worse as the U.S. population ages and ...
The list of prospective victims is obtained from Internet domain WHOIS listings, and the solicitations look like a renewal of an existing domain name registration or listing. The "registration" actually offers nothing beyond a vague claim that the entity sending the solicitation will submit the victim's domain name to existing search engines ...
The caller persuaded the manager to strip-search the employee and to provide detailed descriptions of her naked body, including her breasts and genitalia. The incident ended when a 22-year-old male colleague of the victim came into the room and intervened, with the male employee confronting the "cop" on the phone before the caller hung up. [6]