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Data breaches have resulted in people's information being exposed on the dark web. While thieves often try to misuse this data, there are steps you can take to avoid becoming an identity theft victim.
Financial scams are an unfortunate reality of life for consumers. According to the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre, Canadians reported $530.4 million (CND) in financial fraud losses in 2022, a 170.2% ...
A Pennsylvania woman is accused of faking cancer and scamming people out of more than $10,000. Jessica Cornell Smith, 32, was arrested Monday and charged with theft by deception-false impression ...
Kirilow was charged with several counts of fraud with one count of fraud of over $5,000. [10] [11] Kirilow and her supporters report receiving death threats. [12] In November 2010, Kirilow pled guilty to defrauding Donna Michalowski, a woman who had raised almost $7,400 for Kirilow. [13] She surrendered to the police on August 6, 2010. [14]
The letter represented itself as a letter from a seven-year-old girl with terminal brain cancer. She requested the email be forwarded to the recipients' email contacts, with a carbon copy to an email address the letter represented as that of the American Cancer Society. The American Cancer Society denied involvement in the campaign and ...
On 8 January 1992, Headline News almost became the victim of a death hoax. A man phoned HLN claiming to be President George H. W. Bush's physician, alleging that Bush had died following an incident in Tokyo where he vomited and lost consciousness; however, before anchorman Don Harrison was about to report the news, executive producer Roger Bahre, who was off-camera, immediately yelled "No!
Our office has received more than 100 price gouging complaints since Hurricane Helene, & we’re taking a close look at every single one. Report price gouging at 1-877-5-NO-SCAM or https://t.co ...
This is such a common crime that the state of Arizona listed affinity scams of this type as its number one scam for 2009. In one recent nationwide religious scam, churchgoers are said to have lost more than $50 million in a phony gold bullion scheme, promoted on daily telephone prayer chains, in which they thought they could earn a huge return ...