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A new scam using Elon Musk's name is making the rounds, promoting "energy-saving" devices and falsely linking the Tesla and SpaceX leader to the products. ... Miracle Watt, True Watt, Real Watt ...
• Fake email addresses - Malicious actors sometimes send from email addresses made to look like an official email address but in fact is missing a letter(s), misspelled, replaces a letter with a lookalike number (e.g. “O” and “0”), or originates from free email services that would not be used for official communications.
A scam, or a confidence trick, is an attempt to defraud a person or group after first gaining their trust. Confidence tricks exploit victims using a combination of the victim's credulity , naivety , compassion , vanity , confidence , irresponsibility , and greed .
"pyramid schemes — also referred to as franchise fraud or chain referral schemes — are marketing and investment frauds in which an individual is offered a distributorship or franchise to market a particular product. The real profit is earned, not by the sale of the product, but by the sale of new distributorships.
An exit scam or rug pull is a confidence trick or fraud, perpetuated under the guise of a legitimate business, that ends when the originator absconds with the funds contributed by participants. [1] When a business entity pulls the rug and stops shipping orders while receiving payment for new orders, it could take some time before it is widely ...
The China Hustle is a 2017 financial documentary film produced by Magnolia Pictures and directed by Jed Rothstein. [1] It reveals systematic and formulaic decades-long securities fraud by Chinese companies listed on the US stock market.
The scam targets Marketplace sellers who’ve listed big-ticket items worth several hundred dollars. A buyer contacts a seller requesting to buy the item and pay using Zelle.
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