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  2. Ripoff Report - Wikipedia

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    Let the truth be known", the site allows competitors, and not just consumers, to post comments. The Ripoff Report home page also says: "Complaints Reviews Scams Lawsuits Frauds Reported, File your review. Consumers educating consumers", which allows a reasonable inference that the Ripoff Report encourages negative content.

  3. List of scams - Wikipedia

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    The scam then becomes an advance-fee fraud or a check fraud. A wide variety of reasons can be offered for the trickster's lack of cash, but rather than just borrow the money from the victim (advance fee fraud), the con-artist normally declares that they have checks which the victim can cash on their behalf and remit the money via a non ...

  4. Overpayment scam - Wikipedia

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    An overpayment scam, also known as a refund scam, is a type of confidence trick designed to prey upon victims' good faith.In the most basic form, an overpayment scam consists of a scammer claiming, falsely, to have sent a victim an excess amount of money.

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  6. Appeals court rules students can sue U.S. over ICE's fake ...

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    The ruling, handed down by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on June 25, opens the door for Teja Ravi and others to sue over the phony college, which ICE set up in 2015 and ...

  7. AAA warns of scam emails and texts targeting members. What ...

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    An upstate New York automobile association is warning its members of a recent uptick in fraudulent emails and text messages. AAA Western and Central New York alerted its members to the fraudulent ...

  8. Ponzi scheme - Wikipedia

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    Charles Ponzi, the namesake of the scheme, in 1920. A Ponzi scheme (/ ˈ p ɒ n z i /, Italian:) is a form of fraud that lures investors and pays profits to earlier investors with funds from more recent investors. [1]

  9. Olympus scandal - Wikipedia

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    Building at Olympus head office in Tokyo. Olympus Corporation, a major Japanese manufacturer of optical imaging laboratory and medical equipment listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange had, according to its accounts for the year ended 31 March 2011, consolidated net sales of ¥847.1 billion (US$10.6 billion) in the year, and total shareholders' equity of ¥262.5 billion (US$3.3 billion).