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The miracle cars scam was an advance-fee scam run from 1997 to 2002 by Californians James R. Nichols and Robert Gomez. In its run of just over four years, over 4,000 people bought 7,000 cars that did not exist, netting over US$ 21 million from the victims.
1. The Must Sell Now Scam. The FBI recently updated a longstanding warning to be on the lookout for a scam that cost car buyers more than $54 million between 2014-2017.
First Orion recently issued its "2022 Mid-Year Phone Scam Report," which estimates that U.S. consumers were on the receiving end of 101 billion scam calls during just the first half of 2022. First ...
Quick Take: List of Scam Area Codes. More than 300 area codes exist in the United States alone which is a target-rich environment for phone scammers.
John M. McNamara (born 1940) [1] [2] is an American former businessman who was convicted of a Ponzi scheme fraud through gaining loans to a value of $6 billion from General Motors financing arm GMAC, to develop a $400M car sales and property development business.
Geraldine Elizabeth Carmichael (born 1927 as Jerry Dean Michael) was briefly an American automobile executive and was a convicted fraudster.During the 1970s energy crisis, Carmichael promoted a prototype for a low-cost fuel-efficient car via Twentieth Century Motor Car Corporation, which car was never produced, and fled with investor money. [1]
Phone number lookup service ReversePhone recently compiled the top five area codes and phone numbers used by scammers in 2024. The list is based on the number of complaints about scam calls from ...
In 2012, Tucker was the national title holder in the D Sports Racing category driving a West chassis car purpose-built for the task, claiming the SCCA record lap at Road America with a time of 1:58.997. [32] West Race Cars was purchased by Level 5 in 2011, and significant resources and money were expended by Level 5 to build the record-breaking ...