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In 2023, the US Federal Bureau of Investigation received reports of more than US $650 million being lost by victims of relationship scams. [8] This was approximately seven times what was stolen through phishing scams and almost 100 times the reported losses from ransomware attacks. [ 16 ]
November 10, 2023 at 12:52 PM. A dog-walker caught on doorbell camera footage as he viciously kicked a 21-year-old cat into a road has been ordered to complete 300 hours of community work.
Scams and confidence tricks are difficult to classify, because they change often and often contain elements of more than one type. Throughout this list, the perpetrator of the confidence trick is called the "con artist" or simply "artist", and the intended victim is the "mark".
Sometime between 2000 and 2001, 13-year-old Alicia Kozakiewicz began communicating online with someone she knew as a girl named "Christine," but whom she later learned was a 31-year-old man. Kozakiewicz continued the friendship despite the revelation, and that man later introduced her to 38-year-old Scot Tyree of Herndon , Virginia in a Yahoo!
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.
A cat at the Crumbs & Whiskers cat cafe in Los Angeles, California must be so confused. Bucky is an adorable 3-year-old cat. But as of yet, no one has tried to take the kitty home.
By the end of the year, he claimed that he and his pupils had made some 500 pictures using the hand-held camera with spring-shutters. The tiny "pistolgrams" could best be viewed with a magnifying glass, but it was also possible to make enlargements (an uncommon practice at the time), hundreds of times the size of the original, with sufficient ...
The 20-year-old blind cat from New England was rescued by Good Samaritans after floating on a piece of ice on a Massachusetts lake and falling in on Dec. 16, 2024.