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The scam offers viewers a chance to claim $1,000 or sometimes other amounts of money. If you click on the button in the pop-up asking you to claim your prize, you will be asked to follow certain ...
Get-rich-quick schemes. Get-rich-quick schemes are extremely varied; these include fake franchises, real estate "sure things", get-rich-quick books, wealth-building seminars, self-help gurus, sure-fire inventions, useless products, chain letters, fortune tellers, quack doctors, miracle pharmaceuticals, foreign exchange fraud, Nigerian money scams, fraudulent treasure hunts, and charms and ...
Scam. A scam, or a confidence trick, is an attempt to defraud a person or group after first gaining their trust. Confidence tricks exploit victims using a combination of the victim's credulity, naïveté, compassion, vanity, confidence, irresponsibility, and greed. Researchers have defined confidence tricks as "a distinctive species of ...
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 ...
Passengers stranded in Barbados by Tui after an aircraft was hit by a vehicle were told they could not claim more than €180 (£153) per household for accommodation, meals and additional travel.
May 16, 2024 at 1:31 PM. Robert Alexander. WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a business-backed challenge that could have scuttled the federal agency set up to protect consumers ...
An advance-fee scam is a form of fraud and is one of the most common types of confidence tricks. The scam typically involves promising the victim a significant share of a large sum of money, in return for a small up-front payment, which the fraudster claims will be used to obtain the large sum. [1] [2] If a victim makes the payment, the ...
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) on Wednesday charged James Pepaire-Bueno, 28, of New York, and his younger brother, Anton Peraire-Bueno, 24, of Boston, with conspiracy to commit wire fraud ...