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A New York “scumbag scam artist” swindled an elderly Florida woman out of her life savings as part of a heartless lottery scheme, police said on Wednesday. Shania Baptiste, 25, and two others ...
The Spanish Prisoner scam—and its modern variant, the advance-fee scam or "Nigerian letter scam"—involves enlisting the mark to aid in retrieving some stolen money from its hiding place. The victim sometimes believes they can cheat the con artists out of their money, but anyone trying this has already fallen for the essential con by ...
On May 20, 2010, the SEC filed a federal case against Edward A. Allen and David L. Olson, two former brokers of World Financial Group / World Group Securities, accusing them of having raised approximately $14.8 million through the offer and sale of promissory notes as part of an illegal Ponzi scheme in the States of Ohio and Florida between ...
In the scam, Florida residents received text messages notifying them about an outstanding charge on their SunPass toll road payments. "We've noticed an outstanding toll amount of $12.51 in your ...
According to cyber security expert Abhishek Karnik, who is McAfee’s Head of Threat Research, people are getting duped, and this is one of the “scariest” money scams he’s encountered in his ...
Scott W. Rothstein, disbarred lawyer from Ft. Lauderdale, Florida; perpetrated a decades long Ponzi scheme, until caught in 2009, which defrauded investors of over $1 billion [51] S Michael Sabo , best known as a check, stocks and bonds forger; became notorious from the 1960s through to the 1990s as a "Great Impostor" with over 100 aliases ...
Last year, the Federal Trade Commission received more than 330,000 reports of business impersonation scams, and nearly 160,000 government impersonation scams, often pretending to be with the ...
Officials of the company lied about the life expectancy of the policyholders to the investors, bribing a doctor to sign off on their statements. It operated as a ponzi scheme, using new investors money to pay premiums on older life insurance policies, pay a return to earlier investors, and provide lavish salaries and benefits for the company's ...