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Escobar, Inc. Escobar, Inc. is a company registered in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, [2] tied to various scams involving selling smartphones and flamethrowers with Escobar Inc branding without delivering the products to customers. [3] [4] It was established on April 20, 2015. [5] The company is known for its association with Roberto de Jesús Escobar ...
The coal allocation scam, dubbed in the media as Coalgate, is a major political scandal concerning the Indian government's allocation of the nation's coal deposits to public sector enterprise (PSEs) and private companies. In a draft report issued in March 2012, the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) office accused the Government of ...
Adblock Plus (ABP) is a free and open-source browser extension for content-filtering and ad blocking. It is developed by Eyeo GmbH , a German software company. The extension has been released for Mozilla Firefox (including mobile ), [13] Google Chrome , Internet Explorer , Microsoft Edge ( Chromium based version), Opera , Safari , Yandex ...
The Priority Development Assistance Fund scam, also called the PDAF scam or the pork barrel scam, is a political scandal involving the alleged misuse by several members of the Congress of the Philippines of their Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF, popularly called "pork barrel"), a lump-sum discretionary fund granted to each member of Congress for spending on priority development ...
Greater fool theory. In finance, the greater fool theory suggests that one can sometimes make money through speculation on overvalued assets — items with a purchase price drastically exceeding the intrinsic value — if those assets can later be resold at an even higher price. In this context, one "lesser fool" might pay for an overpriced ...
Power Balance. Power Balance is the original brand of hologram bracelets claimed by its manufacturers and vendors to use "holographic technology" to "resonate with and respond to the natural energy field of the body" to increase athletic performance. [1] Numerous independent studies of the device have found it to be no more effective than a ...
PagePlus was a desktop publishing (page layout) program developed by Serif for Microsoft Windows. The first version was released in 1991 as the first commercial sub-£100 DTP package for Microsoft Windows. The final release was PagePlus X9, [1] which was released in November 2016. In June 2019 it was officially replaced by Serif with Affinity ...
Fyre Festival was a fraudulent luxury music festival organized by Billy McFarland, an American businessman whose enterprises have been characterized by fraud, and American rapper Ja Rule. It was created with the intent of promoting the company's Fyre app for booking music talent. The festival was scheduled to take place on April 28–30 and May ...