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  2. List of scams - Wikipedia

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    Get-rich-quick schemes are extremely varied; these include fake franchises, real estate "sure things", get-rich-quick books, wealth-building seminars, self-help gurus, sure-fire inventions, useless products, chain letters, fortune tellers, quack doctors, miracle pharmaceuticals, foreign exchange fraud, Nigerian money scams, fraudulent treasure hunts, and charms and talismans.

  3. List of Ponzi schemes - Wikipedia

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    Jacob Young, William Abrams, and Nancy Clem ran what author Wendy Gamber argues, in her book The Notorious Mrs. Clem: Murder and Money in the Gilded Age, was the first-ever Ponzi scheme. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In Munich, Germany, Adele Spitzeder founded the Spitzedersche Privatbank in 1869, promising an interest rate of 10 percent per month.

  4. Obinwanne Okeke - Wikipedia

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    On August 6, 2019, Okeke was arrested and charged with two counts of computer fraud and wire fraud. [6] According to the charges, he and his syndicates had defrauded American citizens up to $11m "through fraudulent wire transfer instructions in a massive, coordinated, business e-mail compromise scheme."

  5. MMM Global - Wikipedia

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    MMM Global (also known as МММ-2011 / МММ-2012) is a Ponzi scheme launched in 2011 by Sergei Mavrodi, with subsidiaries in up to 110 countries. [citation needed] MMM Global is a new avatar of the Russian company MMM, also created by Mavrodi and which operated from 1989 to 2004.

  6. List of fraudsters - Wikipedia

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    Edward Davenport, self-styled as a "Lord"; [17] from 2005 to 2009 was the "ringmaster" of a series of advance-fee fraud schemes for (non-existent) loans that defrauded dozens of individuals out of millions of pounds, [18] while costing his clients further hundreds of millions in losses when they signed development property commitments backed by ...

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  8. Cybercrime in Ghana - Wikipedia

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    Cybercrime in Ghana can be traced back to the "419 schemes" in Nigeria, also known as "advance-fee scams" prior to the internet. [3] These scams were a form of credit card fraud whereby the perpetrator would offer a monetary incentive, usually in the form of an international money transfer, in exchange for several down payments from the victim.

  9. List of types of fraud - Wikipedia

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    Review Fraud – Alex Copola Podgor, Ellen S. Criminal Fraud, (1999) Vol, 48, No. 4 American Law Review 1. The Nature, Extent and Economic Impact of Fraud in the UK. February, 2007. The Fraudsters – How Con Artists Steal Your Money. ISBN 978-1-903582-82-4 by Eamon Dillon, published September 2008 by Merlin Publishing; Zhang, Yingyu.