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• Fake email addresses - Malicious actors sometimes send from email addresses made to look like an official email address but in fact is missing a letter(s), misspelled, replaces a letter with a lookalike number (e.g. “O” and “0”), or originates from free email services that would not be used for official communications.
An overpayment scam, also known as a refund scam, is a type of confidence trick designed to prey upon victims' good faith. In the most basic form, an overpayment scam consists of a scammer claiming, falsely, to have sent a victim an excess amount of money. The scammer then attempts to convince the victim to return the difference between the ...
Lottery scam. A lottery scam is a type of advance-fee fraud which begins with an unexpected email notification, phone call, or mailing (sometimes including a large check) explaining that "You have won!" a large sum of money in a lottery. The recipient of the message—the target of the scam—is usually told to keep the notice secret, "due to a ...
The National Economic Empowerment Fund Limited (NEEF), [1] formerly [2] [3] Malawi Enterprise Development Fund (MEDF) [4] [5] is a Malawian government owned Microfinance Institution with intention to economically empower people [6] in rural and urban areas, [7] (particularly women, girls and people with disabilities), by providing quality ...
A reader from Kansas sent us a fundraising letter she was unhappily surprised to have received on July 2, from the Virginia-based Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund.It asked her for a donation for ...
The phone number that appears on the mailer has been reported to Scamtracker 180 times this year so far nationwide, seven of those reports with that phone number, 888-307-2075, came from Shelby ...
Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, c. February 1817 or February 1818 – February 20, 1895) was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman.
The Supreme Court rejected a business-backed challenge that could have scuttled the federal agency set up to protect consumers from shady financial services practices.