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  2. Facebook - Wikipedia

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    Facebook enables users to control access to individual posts and their profile [320] through privacy settings. [321] The user's name and profile picture (if applicable) are public. Facebook's revenue depends on targeted advertising, which involves analyzing user data to decide which ads to show each user.

  3. Cryptocurrency and crime - Wikipedia

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    In 2018, around US$1.7 billion in cryptocurrency was lost to scams, theft and fraud. In the first quarter of 2019, the amount of such losses rose to US$1.2 billion. [6] 2022 was a record year for cryptocurrency theft, according to Chainalysis , with US$3.8 billion [7] stolen worldwide during 125 system hacks, [8] including US$1.7 billion stolen ...

  4. Phony checks top list of ten most common money scams - AOL

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    Nearly 45% of people reporting being scammed were ripped off using a phony check scheme -- by far the largest type of fraud reported in the first six months of this year, according to the National ...

  5. Exit scam - Wikipedia

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    Exit scam. An exit scam, is a confidence trick, con job or fraud, perpetuated under the guise of a legitimate business, that ends when the originator absconds with the funds contributed by participants. [1] When a business entity rug-pulls and stops shipping orders while receiving payment for new orders, it could take some time before it is ...

  6. Elizabeth Holmes - Wikipedia

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    1⁄4 years (135 months) in prison [1] Imprisoned at. Federal Prison Camp, Bryan. Elizabeth Anne Holmes (born February 3, 1984) is an American biotechnology entrepreneur who was convicted of fraud in connection to her blood-testing company, Theranos. [2] The company's valuation soared after it claimed to have revolutionized blood testing by ...

  7. Criticism of Greenpeace - Wikipedia

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    Criticism of Greenpeace. Throughout its history, the policies and objectives of the non-governmental environmental protection and conservation organization Greenpeace have been criticized by a number of groups, including national governments, members of industry, former Greenpeace members, scientists, political groups, and other environmentalists.

  8. Emmanuel Nwude - Wikipedia

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    Emmanuel Nwude Odinigwe, popularly known as Owelle of Abagana, is a Nigerian advance-fee fraud expert artist and former Director of Union Bank of Nigeria. He is known for defrauding Nelson Sakaguchi, a Director at Brazil's Banco Noroeste based in São Paulo, of $242 million: $191 million in cash and the remainder in the form of outstanding interest, between 1995 and 1998.

  9. Can you hear me? (alleged telephone scam) - Wikipedia

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    Can you hear me? is a question asked in an alleged telephone scam that started occurring in the United States and Canada in 2017. It is alternatively known as the Say "yes" scam. Reports of this scam and warnings to the public have continued into 2020 in the US. There have also been several reports of the same kind of incidents happening in Europe.

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