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  2. Protect yourself from internet scams - AOL Help

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    If you get an email providing you a PIN number and an 800 or 888 number to call, this a scam to try and steal valuable personal info. These emails will often ask you to call AOL at the number provided, provide the PIN number and will ask for account details including your password.

  3. Employment fraud - Wikipedia

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    Employment fraud is the attempt to defraud people seeking employment by giving them false hope of better employment, offering better working hours, more respectable tasks, future opportunities, or higher wages. [1] They often advertise at the same locations as genuine employers and may ask for money in exchange for the opportunity to apply for ...

  4. Employment firm's name stolen to lure job seekers into scam

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  5. Valmiki Corporation scam (Karnataka) - Wikipedia

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    The Valmiki Corporation scam was a major Indian financial fraud scam involving the Karnataka Maharshi Valmiki Scheduled Tribes Development Corporation (KMVSTDC) that occurred in 2024. [ 1 ] The scam was discovered after the suicide of 52-year-old corporation superintendent Chandrasekaran P. who left behind a suicide note detailing corruption ...

  6. This Baltimore job hunter avoided an employment scam by ...

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    In fact, 32% of employment fraud victims came across the scam job posting on LinkedIn, one of the most popular job search tools. Now one tricky thing is that it is common practice to have to share ...

  7. Technical support scam - Wikipedia

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    Additionally, scammers exploit the levels of unemployment by offering jobs to people desperate to be employed. [12] Many scammers do not realise they are applying and being trained for tech support scam jobs, [14] but many decide to stay after finding out the nature of their job as they feel it is too late to back out of the job and change ...

  8. Vyapam scam - Wikipedia

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    Vyapam was entrusted with the responsibility of conducting large-scale competitive tests for admission to various professional courses and for recruitment to government jobs. [13] The Vyapam scam involved collusion among exam candidates, government officials and middlemen: undeserving candidates were offered high marks in the exams, in exchange ...

  9. Mantria Corporation Ponzi scheme - Wikipedia

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    The Mantria Corporation Ponzi scheme has been described as the "biggest green energy scam" in United States history. [1] A Federal judge in the Securities and Exchange Commission's civil case found Mantria had scammed more than $54.5 million “by egregiously, recklessly, knowingly, and shamelessly perpetrating a fraudulent scheme” that used “misrepresentations, omissions, and blatant lies ...