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Here's how to know if you're about to get conned by a diet or supplement.
[53] [54] 1MDB claims that Amicorp, a Hong Kong-based corporate services provider, played a crucial role in facilitating fraudulent transactions exceeding $7 billion between 2009 and 2014. The fund alleges that Amicorp orchestrated a sophisticated scheme involving numerous shell companies, fake transactions, and deceptive financial arrangements ...
The 1Malaysia Development Berhad scandal is an ongoing political scandal in Malaysia, [1] in which then-Prime Minister Najib Razak was accused of channeling over RM 2.67 billion (approximately US$700 million) into his personal bank accounts from 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), a government-run strategic development company.
Scams and fraud can come in the forms of phone calls, online links, door-to-door sales and mail. Below are common scams the New Jersey Department of Consumer Affairs warns of. Common phone scams:
In 2002 the US Food and Drug Administration sent a warning letter to the product's promoters for making unsubstantied health claims. [2] [7] On June 12, 2003, the FDA and FTC lodged a complaint that the two companies and their owners, Jason and Bela Berkes, had misled their customers with claims that Seasilver cured 650 diseases, including AIDS and some types of cancer.
A health claim on a food label and in food marketing is a claim by a manufacturer of food products that their food will reduce the risk of developing a disease or condition. For example, it is claimed by the manufacturers of oat cereals that oat bran can reduce cholesterol , which will lower the chances of developing serious heart conditions .
Advertising claims similar [27] to those of Radam can be found throughout the 18th, 19th, 20th and 21st centuries. "Dr." "Dr." Sibley, an English patent medicine seller of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, even went so far as to claim that his Reanimating Solar Tincture would, as the name implies, "restore life in the event of sudden death".
One of the first rules of avoiding scams is to not give out your Social Security number to anyone you don't know and trust -- especially on the internet. But that's what victims of a Walmart gift ...