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  2. White van speaker scam - Wikipedia

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    The white van speaker scam is a scam sales technique in which a con artist makes a buyer believe they are getting a good price on home entertainment products. Often a con artist will buy inexpensive, generic speakers [1] and convince potential buyers that they are premium products worth hundreds or thousands of dollars, offering them for sale at a price that the buyer thinks is heavily ...

  3. Dr.Web - Wikipedia

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    It also features an add-on for all major browsers which checks links with the online version of Dr Web. [ 2 ] Dr.Web has withdrawn from AV tests such as Virus Bulletin VB100% around 2008 stating that they believe that virus scans on viruses are different subject from that of real world malware attacks.

  4. Speedtest.net - Wikipedia

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    The owner and operator of Speedtest.net, Ookla, was established in 2006 by partners Mike Apgar and Doug Suttles. Suttles suggested the name Ookla because he already owned the Ookla.com domain name in honor of his pet cat, who was in turn named for a character on the TV series Thundarr the Barbarian. [5]

  5. Click fraud - Wikipedia

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    Click fraud is a type of fraud that occurs on the Internet in pay per click (PPC) online advertising.In this type of advertising, the owners of websites that post the ads are paid based on how many site visitors click on the ads.

  6. Lottery scam - Wikipedia

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    Another type of lottery scam is a scam email or web page where the recipient had won a sum of money in the lottery. The recipient is instructed to contact an agent very quickly but the scammers are just using a third party company, person, email or names to hide their true identity, in some cases offering extra prizes (such as a 7 Day/6 Night Bahamas Cruise Vacation, if the user rings within 4 ...

  7. 5Linx - Wikipedia

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    5LINX Enterprises, Inc. was founded by Craig Jerabek, Jeb Tyler, and Jason Guck. 5Linx was incorporated in Rochester, New York, in 2001.In 2016, 5L Holdings, LLC was formed to acquire the assets of 5 Linx Enterprises (dissolved).

  8. Turnitin - Wikipedia

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    The essays submitted by students are stored in a database used to check for plagiarism. This prevents one student from using another student's paper, by identifying matching text between papers. In addition to student papers, the database contains a copy of the publicly accessible Internet, with the company using a web crawler to continually ...

  9. NSE co-location scam - Wikipedia

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    The NSE co-location scam relates to the market manipulation at the National Stock Exchange of India, India's leading stock exchange.Allegedly select players obtained market price information ahead of the rest of the market, enabling them to front run the rest of the market, [1] [2] possibly breaching the NSE's purpose of demutualisation exchange governance and its robust transparency-based ...