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Ripoff Report is a private for-profit website founded by Ed Magedson. [1] The Ripoff Report has been online since December 1998 and is operated by Xcentric Ventures, LLC which is based in Tempe, Arizona. [2] In 2023 an Australian judge found the company purports to be a consumer review site but profits from extortive business practices. [3]
The FBI says that while crypto fraud complaints only make up about 10% of financial fraud reports, they comprise 50% of total losses—about $5.6 billion in 2023 alone, according to the agency’s ...
BBC presenter Naga Munchetty has seen a fake online post using her image to "scam people out of money". ... These reports are an important signal to our ad review systems, and may prompt a re ...
Phishing scams happen when you receive an email that looks like it came from a company you trust (like AOL), but is ultimately from a hacker trying to get your information. All legitimate AOL Mail will be marked as either Certified Mail, if its an official marketing email, or Official Mail, if it's an important account email. If you get an ...
The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center has seen a spike in similar gold bar scams, which target vulnerable seniors. Between May and December 2023, victims lost more than $55 million to this ...
Scams and confidence tricks are difficult to classify, because they change often and often contain elements of more than one type. Throughout this list, the perpetrator of the confidence trick is called the "con artist" or simply "artist", and the intended victim is the "mark".
A ripoff (or rip-off) is a grossly unfavorable financial transaction.It originated as slang that has entered into standard English usage as a business term. [1]Usually it refers to an incident in which a person is overcharged for something, or receives goods or services not of the standard expected for the price.
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, the Federal ...