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Per a recent report by the Better Business Bureau, 44% of Americans have been approached with a government impostor scam, and 77% of people surveyed were familiar with the practice. Since 2014 ...
Fake Social Security scam email. A phishing scam is when a person or group pretends to be an established organization, such as a governmental agency, financial institution or legitimate company ...
A Lancet review on Handling of Scientific Misconduct in Scandinavian countries gave examples of policy definitions. In Denmark, scientific misconduct is defined as "intention[al] negligence leading to fabrication of the scientific message or a false credit or emphasis given to a scientist", and in Sweden as "intention[al] distortion of the ...
The Fodder Scam was a corruption scandal that involved the embezzlement of about ₹940 crore (equivalent to ₹ 48 billion or US$570 million in 2023) from the government treasury of the north Indian state of Bihar. [1] Among those implicated in the theft and arrested were then Chief Minister of Bihar, Lalu Prasad Yadav, [2] as well as former ...
Website. Official website. The National Grants Management Association (NGMA) is a professional association dedicated to grants management. Founded in 1978, NGMA has over 5,000 members with chapters throughout the United States and Puerto Rico. [1] The association provides grants management training and professional certification.
A federal court has frozen the bank accounts of Jeremy Johnson and his associates, along with 61 phony companies the Federal Trade Commission says bilked people out of more than $275 million with ...
Advance-fee scam. An advance-fee scam is a form of fraud and is one of the most common types of confidence tricks. The scam typically involves promising the victim a significant share of a large sum of money, in return for a small up-front payment, which the fraudster claims will be used to obtain the large sum. [1][2] If a victim makes the ...
The number of predatory conferences has increased rapidly, with OMICS alone stating in 2016 that they host about 3,000 conferences per year. [citation needed] Christoph Bartneck, an associate professor in information technology at New Zealand's University of Canterbury, was invited to attend a conference, organised under OMICS' ConferenceSeries banner, [13] on atomic and nuclear physics to be ...