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A recovery room scam is a form of advance-fee fraud where the scammer (sometimes posing as a law enforcement officer or attorney) calls investors who have been sold worthless shares (for example in a boiler-room scam), and offers to buy them, to allow the investors to recover their investments. [92]
Tassimo T-Discs. The Tassimo system utilizes proprietary non-reusable plastic beverage pods, called T-Discs, which are produced and distributed by JDE Peet's. A bar code on top of each T-Disc instructs the machine to use the proper brewing settings. It will then change the water temperature, the amount of water, and the brew time and strength.
False titles of nobility or royal title scams are claimed titles of social rank that have been fabricated or assumed by an individual or family without recognition by ...
The white van speaker scam is a scam sales technique in which a con artist makes a buyer believe they are getting a good price on home entertainment products. Often a con artist will buy inexpensive, generic speakers [1] and convince potential buyers that they are premium products worth hundreds or thousands of dollars, offering them for sale at a price that the buyer thinks is heavily ...
In early February 2017, a local British Columbia newspaper, The Delta Optimist, reported that consumers had made a "few complaints" about the calls being received in Canada. [7] On March 27, 2017, the Federal Communications Commission issued a report about the alleged scam. The agency stated that they had received consumer complaints about the ...
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.
Scams involve pick pocketing, clip joints, vice girls and taxi scams. Most prevalent is the counterfeit money scam. 02: Czech Republic: Prague: Scammers may disguise as beautiful girls, harmless hawkers and friendly taxi drivers. 03: Brazil: Rio de Janeiro: During Carnival time Rio's scammers come out to party (on tourists). 04: Spain: Barcelona
A romance scam is a confidence trick involving feigning romantic intentions towards a victim, gaining the victim's affection, and then using that goodwill to get the victim to send money to the scammer under false pretenses or to commit fraud against the victim.