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  2. A Shady Scam Is Targeting College Kids And Parents. Here's ...

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    “If you get that email or you see an ad, go over to a search engine, type it in and use the word ‘scam,’ ‘fraud,’ or reviews to see what people are saying,” McGovern recommended.

  3. Sick baby hoax - Wikipedia

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    The success of such scams relies on a particular compassion in people towards children. When a child is sick, this particularly touches people's hearts. [ 1 ] An early example of this kind of hoax online is the "sick child chain letter ", [ 1 ] an email making the claim that "with every name that this [letter] is sent to, the American Cancer ...

  4. Varsity Blues scandal - Wikipedia

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    Once the paperwork was complete, Singer told clients to invent false travel plans to arrange to have their child's test locations moved to a test center under his control, either in West Hollywood or Houston. Parents might also be advised to fabricate a family event that could provide a pretense for the student to take the SAT, ACT, or other ...

  5. List of scams - Wikipedia

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    Rainmaking is a simple scam in which the trickster promises to use their power or influence over a complex system to make it do something favourable for the mark. Classically this was promising to make it rain, [ 91 ] but more modern examples include getting someone's app "featured" on an app store , obtaining pass marks in a university ...

  6. Inside the dumpy Willy Wonka-like experience that infuriated ...

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    A Willy Wonka inspired 'Chocolate Experience' in Glasgow, Scotland, was 'where dreams go to die,' one actor hired for the event said.

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  8. Sheepdog trial - Wikipedia

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    The Soldier Hollow Classic held annually in Midway, Utah, United States is the most attended annual sheepdog championship in the world. This 2009 event drew 24,600 spectators. The most popular scoring system works as follows: [11] A judge watches each run and assigns a score based on their judgment. Each test element is assigned a maximum score.

  9. Kraus–Weber test - Wikipedia

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    The Kraus–Weber test (or K–W test [1]) is a fitness test devised in the 1940s by Hans Kraus and Sonja Weber of New York Presbyterian Hospital. The poor tests results of American children versus children from European countries gained attention in the 1950s from American media, prompting the United States government to establish the Presidential Fitness Test within the following decades.