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  2. Ripoff Report - Wikipedia

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    December 8, 1998. Current status. Online. Ripoff Report is a privately owned and operated for-profit website founded by Ed Magedson. [1] The Ripoff Report has been online since December 1998 and is operated by Xcentric Ventures, LLC which is based in Tempe, Arizona. [2]

  3. Athens woman falls for computer scam and reports ... - AOL

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    May 10, 2024 at 1:09 AM. An Athens woman and her mother recently lost more than $150,000 in a scam that originated from a fake Microsoft message that appeared as a pop-up on a computer. Athens ...

  4. Ponzi scheme - Wikipedia

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    A Ponzi scheme ( / ˈpɒnzi /, Italian: [ˈpontsi]) is a form of fraud that lures investors and pays profits to earlier investors with funds from more recent investors. [1] Named after Italian businessman Charles Ponzi, this type of scheme misleads investors by either falsely suggesting that profits are derived from legitimate business ...

  5. Romance scam - Wikipedia

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    A romance scam is a confidence trick involving feigning romantic intentions towards a victim, gaining the victim's affection, and then using that goodwill to get the victim to send money to the scammer under false pretenses or to commit fraud against the victim. Fraudulent acts may involve access to the victim's money, bank accounts, credit ...

  6. 5 people tasked with helping Alabama woman — as live-in ...

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    Based on financial records, the family appears to have helped themselves to over $40,000, reports the Miami Herald. They used business banking services like Square and Stripe to charge the woman ...

  7. Bitcoin Scam Using Unauthorized Celebrity Images in Ads ... - AOL

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    A Guardian Australia investigation traced the source of a major crypto scam using Google ads to addresses in Moscow. Bitcoin Scam Using Unauthorized Celebrity Images in Ads Traced to Moscow ...

  8. List of Ponzi schemes - Wikipedia

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    1990s. МММ was a Russian company that perpetrated one of the world's largest Ponzi schemes of all time. By different estimates from 5 to 40 million people lost up to $10 billion. The company started attracting money from private investors, promising annual returns of up to 1,000%.

  9. Police department warns of phone scam and other reports

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    Tribune. Albert Lea Tribune, Minn. March 5, 2024 at 7:49 PM. Mar. 5—Police received a report at 4:23 p.m. Monday of a scam from a resident who stated he had received a call from someone claiming ...