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The Better Business Bureau (BBB) is an American private, 501(c)(6) nonprofit organization founded in 1912. BBB's self-described mission is to focus on advancing marketplace trust, [2] consisting of 92 independently incorporated local BBB organizations in the United States and Canada, coordinated under the International Association of Better Business Bureaus (IABBB) in Arlington, Virginia.
Technical support scams rely on social engineering to persuade victims that their device is infected with malware. [15] [16] Scammers use a variety of confidence tricks to persuade the victim to install remote desktop software, with which the scammer can then take control of the victim's computer.
The green goods scam, also known as the "green goods game", was a scheme popular in the 19th-century United States in which people were duped into paying for worthless counterfeit money. It is a variation on the pig-in-a-poke scam using money instead of other goods like a pig. The mark, or victim, would respond to flyers circulated throughout ...
In an email, the Green Dot spokesperson said the company was not required to respond to BBB complaints since it is not a formal regulatory body, and Green Dot had stopped paying the BBB in 2022.
Tested Green, a fraudulent firm that sold environmental certificates that proved to be neither tested, certified, nor green, has been banned from the business by the Federal Trade Commission.
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Stephen Lawrence Green [1] (born January 28, 1938) [2] [3] [4] is an American real estate developer. He is the founder and former chairman of SL Green Realty Corp., which claims to be Manhattan’s largest owner of office buildings. [5] He retired in January 2019 and is now chairman emeritus. [2] [3] He served as chairman of the company since 1997.