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  2. A Devastating Click: How an Email Scam Can Cost You ... - AOL

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    The emailer, who claimed to represent the owner of a bank in the Philippines where the money was being kept for Calalang, supplied intricate details as proof. “He even provided all the documents ...

  3. World Bank Group - Wikipedia

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    World Bank Group. The World Bank Group ( WBG) is a family of five international organizations that make leveraged loans to developing countries. It is the largest and best-known development bank in the world and an observer at the United Nations Development Group. [7] The bank is headquartered in Washington, D.C., in the United States.

  4. Fraudsters target small businesses with scams. Here are some ...

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    Plenty of types of scams exist, but a few affect small businesses the most. According to the Federal Trade Commission, small businesses should be on the lookout for phony invoices and unordered ...

  5. Scams in intellectual property - Wikipedia

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    A scam increasing in frequency, as of October 2011, is an email originating from a domain name registrar or IT consulting company based in China that purports to notify a trademark holder that another entity is seeking to register the client's trademark or business name as a domain name in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, or other Asian countries.

  6. Email fraud - Wikipedia

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    Email fraud (or email scam) is intentional deception for either personal gain or to damage another individual using email as the vehicle. Almost as soon as email became widely used, it began to be used as a means to de fraud people, just as telephony and paper mail were used by previous generations. Email fraud can take the form of a confidence ...

  7. Scam letters - Wikipedia

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    Edna Fiedler, 44, of Olympia, Washington, on June 25, 2008, pleaded guilty in a Tacoma court and was sentenced to two years imprisonment and five years of supervised release or probation in an Internet $1 million "Nigerian check scam". She conspired to commit bank, wire and mail fraud against US citizens, specifically using Internet by having ...

  8. Kroll Inc. - Wikipedia

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    Website. www.kroll.com. Kroll (formerly Duff & Phelps) is a financial and risk advisory firm established in 1932 and based in New York City. [1] [2] In 2018, Kroll was acquired by Duff & Phelps. [3] In 2021, Duff & Phelps decided to rebrand itself as Kroll, a process it completed in 2022.

  9. Wirecard scandal - Wikipedia

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    The Wirecard scandal ( German: Wirecard-Skandal) was a series of corrupt business practices and fraudulent financial reporting that led to the insolvency of Wirecard, a payment processor and financial services provider, headquartered in Munich, Germany. The company was part of the DAX index. They offered customers electronic payment transaction ...