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Impersonation scams, where someone pretends to be with a popular company or government agency, are getting worse. Scam alert: Report shows which companies are impersonated the most Skip to main ...
Fake news websites are those which intentionally, but not necessarily solely, publish hoaxes and disinformation for purposes other than news satire. Some of these sites use homograph spoofing attacks , typosquatting and other deceptive strategies similar to those used in phishing attacks to resemble genuine news outlets.
The scam may extend to the creation of Web sites for the bogus brand, which usually sounds similar to that of a respected loudspeaker company. They will often place an ad for the speakers in the "For sale" Classifieds of the local newspaper, at the exorbitant price, and then show the mark a copy of this ad to "verify" their worth.
The Indian television series Scam 1992 is based on his life and fraudulent activity. Trevor Milton, founder and former CEO of Hydrogen Trucking company Nikola inc. Convicted of Fraud lying to investors to pump the companies stock price.
Aeropostale Canada – subsidiary of the United States-based retailer Aeropostale, closed all 41 stores in Canada in 2016; A&A Records – founded in Toronto at the end of WWII, it was the dominant record chain store in Canada until being superseded by Sam the Record Man in the 1960s; it became defunct in 1993
Investigating reports of the supposed scam, Snopes noted that all purported scam targets only reported being victimized after hearing about the scam in news reports. Snopes had contacted the Better Business Bureau, the Federal Trade Commission, and the Consumer Federation of America, none of whom could provide evidence of an individual having been financially defrauded after receiving one of ...
Hours after news of the explosion broke, Ron Hubbard, the founder and CEO of Atlas Survival Shelters, set up a camera in his cluttered office and recorded a video for YouTube. Wearing a camo T ...
A package redirection scam is a form of e-commerce fraud, where a malicious actor manipulates a shipping label, to trick the mail carrier into delivering the package to the wrong address. This is usually done through product returns to make the merchant believe that they mishandled the return package, and thus provide a refund without the item ...