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  2. Scam artists selling bogus magazine subscriptions ripped off ...

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    The Justice Department has charged 64 people in a fraud case they say bilked $300 million from more than 100,000 victims. Scam artists selling bogus magazine subscriptions ripped off $300 million ...

  3. Fake news websites in the United States - Wikipedia

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    BuzzFeed News found that on Facebook during the last three months of the election, fake news stories received more attention than real news stories. It was discovered that the top twenty fake news stories had 8,711,000 shares, reactions, and comments, while the top twenty real news stories were only shared, commented on, and reacted to ...

  4. List of scams - Wikipedia

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    The scam relies on selection bias and survivorship bias and is similar to publication bias (the file-drawer effect) in scientific publishing (whereby successful experiments are more likely to be published, rather than failures). This particular scam received its name as a result of Frank Deford's novel Cut 'n' Run (1973), in which a stockbroker ...

  5. 9 misprints that are worth a ton of money. Do you have a copy?

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    Typos can do more than damage the credibility of a publication. Penguin books in Australia recently had to reprint 7,000 copies of a now-collectible book because one of the recipes called for ...

  6. List of defunct American magazines - Wikipedia

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    BB, PRIMEDIA Consumer Magazine Group (1987–2000) BBW, Various including Larry Flynt Publications Inc. (1979–2003) Between C & D (1983–1990) Beyond Fantasy Fiction (1953–1955) Big Brother (1992–2004) Bill Apters W O W Xtra Magazine, H&S Media Inc. (2000–2001) The Black Cat (1895–1922) Black Issues Book Review (1999–2007) Black ...

  7. More Than 40% of Consumers Don't Recognize Red Flags of a Scam

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  8. Truth behind the Donald Trump quote from 1998 that's rapidly ...

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    Credit: The Other 98%. In the quote, Trump calls voters the "dumbest group of voters in the country." He continued, saying that they'd believe anything Fox broadcasts.

  9. Scam baiting - Wikipedia

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    For scams conducted via written communication, baiters may answer scam emails using throwaway email accounts, pretending to be receptive to scammers' offers. [4]Popular methods of accomplishing the first objective are to ask scammers to fill out lengthy questionnaires; [5] to bait scammers into taking long trips; to encourage the use of poorly made props or inappropriate English-language ...