Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Scams by "paid editing companies" have been happening on Wikipedia since at least the 2015 Operation Orangemoody scandal, which was documented by the Wikimedia Foundation, as well as by the Guardian, Independent, and Signpost. The Orangemoody scam worked like an extortion racket.
Charity fraud, also known as a donation scam, is the act of using deception to obtain money from people who believe they are donating to a charity.Often, individuals or groups will present false information claiming to be a charity or associated with one, and then ask potential donors for contributions to this non-existent charity.
The United States government has successfully prosecuted and convicted a number of redemption scheme participants. The convictions include forgery, providing false information, passing fictitious financial instruments, defrauding the United States, counterfeiting, impeding administration, filing false tax returns, money laundering and wire fraud.
7] The British Thyroid Foundation was founded in 1991 by Janis Hickey MBE after she was diagnosed with Graves and thyroid eye disease. With the encouragement of Sir Richard Bayliss KCVO, [8] who was involved with the British Thyroid Association, the BTF was set up as a registered charity [9] based in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, UK.
Some of the scammers falsely claimed to be Wikipedia administrators or employees of the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF). Legitimate reviewers at AfC are all volunteers and will never ask for payment to get a draft into article space, improve a draft, or restore a deleted article. If someone contacts you with such an offer, it is a scam.
Support - all NHS trusts should ensure there is a dedicated person to whom concerns can be easily reported and without formality, a "Freedom to Speak Up Guardian" . There are now over 800 Freedom to Speak Up Guardians in over 500 organisations in the NHS and independent sector organisations, national bodies and elsewhere in England.
The Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust Independent Inquiry website; Robert Francis Inquiry report into Mid-Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust, ISBN 978-0-10-296439-4; Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust website Archived 7 September 2019 at the Wayback Machine "Stafford Hospital scandal timeline". Metro. 6 February 2013
Lifespring was an American for-profit human potential organization founded in 1974 by John Hanley Sr., Robert White, Randy Revell, and Charlene Afremow. [1] [2] [3] The organization encountered significant controversy in the 1970s and '80s, with various academic articles characterizing Lifespring's training methods as "deceptive and indirect techniques of persuasion and control", and ...