When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Scam alert: Report shows which companies are ... - AOL

    www.aol.com/news/scam-alert-report-shows...

    Melanie McGovern of the Better Business Bureau says Netflix users may get a message saying "your subscription has expired, and that puts people in a panic." Instead, the BBB says go directly to ...

  3. Better Business Bureau - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_Business_Bureau

    The Better Business Bureau (BBB) is an American private, 501(c)(6) nonprofit organization founded in 1912. BBB's self-described mission is to focus on advancing marketplace trust, [2] consisting of 92 independently incorporated local BBB organizations in the United States and Canada, coordinated under the International Association of Better Business Bureaus (IABBB) in Arlington, Virginia.

  4. Better Business Bureau Issues Mea Culpa for Pay-to-Play Ratings

    www.aol.com/2010/11/23/better-business-bureau...

    The Better Business Bureau has issued a mea culpa over a series of egregious missteps in its ratings system that included giving top grades to two fake companies set up to prove the ...

  5. Better Business Bureau (BBB) complaints and accreditation ...

    www.aol.com/lifestyle/better-business-bureau-bbb...

    When comparing companies that have different ratings, it's important to read the complaints listed on the business' BBB profile, McGovern said. "A lot of times when a rating falls, it is because ...

  6. List of scams - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_scams

    The Spanish Prisoner scam—and its modern variant, the advance-fee scam or "Nigerian letter scam"—involves enlisting the mark to aid in retrieving some stolen money from its hiding place. The victim sometimes believes they can cheat the con artists out of their money, but anyone trying this has already fallen for the essential con by ...

  7. BlueHippo Funding - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlueHippo_Funding

    The company's advertised toll-free phone number and website are no longer functioning. The company encountered several complaints with the Better Business Bureau; the Greater Maryland Better Business Bureau issued a consumer alert against the company within eight months of its founding. [3] BlueHippo's main product was a personal computer ...

  8. Project Plowshare - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Plowshare

    The 1962 "Sedan" plowshares shot displaced 12 million tons of earth and created a crater 320 feet (98 m) deep and 1,280 feet (390 m) wide.Project Plowshare was the overall United States program for the development of techniques to use nuclear explosives for peaceful construction purposes.

  9. Project Ploughshares - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Ploughshares

    The Space Security Index is a research partnership between several academic, governmental, and non-governmental organizations. Partners include the Institute of Air and Space Law at McGill University, the Secure World Foundation, Project Ploughshares, and The Simons Foundation, in cooperation with the International Security Research and Outreach Programme of Foreign Affairs and International ...