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  2. Scam alert: Report shows which companies are ... - AOL

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    Impersonation scams, where someone pretends to be with a popular company or government agency, are getting worse. Scam alert: Report shows which companies are impersonated the most Skip to main ...

  3. A GA couple was about to hand con men $186,000 in gold. Then ...

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    According to the Department of Justice, “cyber-enabled crimes cost Georgia residents almost $144 million in 2021, with losses attributed to business email compromise schemes, investment scams ...

  4. List of scams - Wikipedia

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    The scam may extend to the creation of Web sites for the bogus brand, which usually sounds similar to that of a respected loudspeaker company. They will often place an ad for the speakers in the "For sale" Classifieds of the local newspaper, at the exorbitant price, and then show the mark a copy of this ad to "verify" their worth.

  5. FCC warns of 50-state scam by fraudsters posing as mortgage ...

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    Homeowners across the U.S. are being targeted in a sophisticated scam in which callers pose as mortgage lenders to defraud people out of hundreds of thousands of dollars, ...

  6. Bogus escrow - Wikipedia

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    The bogus escrow scam is a straightforward confidence trick in which a scammer operates a bogus escrow service. Escrow services are intended to ensure security by acting as a middleman in transactions where the two parties do not trust each other. Rather than sending money or goods directly to the other party (which is insecure, as one or the ...

  7. The Cobra Group - Wikipedia

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    The Cobra Group is a door-to-door selling and marketing company headquartered in Hong Kong. Investigations by the media have found that the company promises much larger compensation rates than employees actually receive as commission-only, self-employed workers. It is also criticised for being a cult, a scam, and a pyramid scheme. [1]

  8. Trusting tax-scam companies to 'negotiate' with the IRS can ...

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    These companies often don’t take tax cases if the taxpayer owes less than $10,000. Payment typically is made in the form of flat fees or percentages of negotiated amounts.

  9. Moving scam - Wikipedia

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    A moving scam is a scam by a moving company in which the company provides an estimate, loads the goods, then states a much higher price to deliver the goods, effectively holding the goods as lien. History