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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]
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 ...
“Dr. Carson has never endorsed or even heard of this product,” a representative for Carson told The Dispatch Fact Check. “This is a scam and completely fake.” “This is a scam and ...
For scams conducted via written communication, baiters may answer scam emails using throwaway email accounts, pretending to be receptive to scammers' offers. [4]Popular methods of accomplishing the first objective are to ask scammers to fill out lengthy questionnaires; [5] to bait scammers into taking long trips; to encourage the use of poorly made props or inappropriate English-language ...
A cancer specialist in Michigan is being called "Dr. Evil" after pleading guilty to more than a dozen charges including fraud. Federal prosecutors say Dr. Farid Fata scammed Medicare out of more ...
Tri Energy was a business enterprise run by Henry Uliomereyon Jones, better known as Dr. Henry Jones, with associates Arthur Simburg and Robert Jennings.. Jones was a would-be record producer in Marina del Rey, California, running MIG Records (later renamed Global Village Records) and Marina Investors Group Inc. [1] Jones and his associates were convicted of running a fraudulent Ponzi scheme ...
Technical support scams rely on social engineering to persuade victims that their device is infected with malware. [15] [16] Scammers use a variety of confidence tricks to persuade the victim to install remote desktop software, with which the scammer can then take control of the victim's computer.
The website Science-Based Medicine goes even further, claiming: "No other show on television can top The Dr. Oz Show for the sheer magnitude of bad health advice it consistently offers, all while giving everything a veneer of credibility." [3] What follows is a selection of claims lacking scientific evidence.