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Richard and Judy Book Club display at W.H. Smith, Enfield. The following is a list of books from the Richard & Judy Book Club, featured on the television chat show. The show was cancelled in 2009, but since 2010 the lists have been continued by the Richard and Judy Book Club, a website run in conjunction with retailer W. H. Smith.
The Priory of Sion, a made-up secret society that plays a prominent role in The Da Vinci Code. [10] Progesterex, a fictitious date-rape drug. Prophecy of the Popes, a Latin document predicting the next Popes. The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a book instrumental in the surge of antisemitism during the twentieth century. [11]
A recovery room scam is a form of advance-fee fraud where the scammer (sometimes posing as a law enforcement officer or attorney) calls investors who have been sold worthless shares (for example in a boiler-room scam), and offers to buy them, to allow the investors to recover their investments. [92]
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 fraudsters also spoof the caller ID number of the homeowner's actual lending institution, further convincing them of the call's legitimacy, the agency noted.
And one victim of the scam received a prison term for funding her payments with embezzled cash.
The 2008 web series SPAMasterpiece Theater featured an episode "Love Song of Kseniya" that centered on a romance scam email spam read by website Boing Boing ' s Xeni Jardin. [ 39 ] One of the characters in the novel and miniseries Nine Perfect Strangers has a mental breakdown after falling in love with, and subsequently losing thousands to, a ...
Charlotte Fox Weber, a psychotherapist and the author of "Tell Me What You Want" (and, full disclosure, my cousin), said, "The past decade has transformed our attitudes towards online dating."