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• Fake email addresses - Malicious actors sometimes send from email addresses made to look like an official email address but in fact is missing a letter(s), misspelled, replaces a letter with a lookalike number (e.g. “O” and “0”), or originates from free email services that would not be used for official communications.
Get-rich-quick schemes are extremely varied; these include fake franchises, real estate "sure things", get-rich-quick books, wealth-building seminars, self-help gurus, sure-fire inventions, useless products, chain letters, fortune tellers, quack doctors, miracle pharmaceuticals, foreign exchange fraud, Nigerian money scams, fraudulent treasure hunts, and charms and talismans.
Born in Providence, Rhode Island, Lapre moved to Phoenix, Arizona, with his family when he was a child.He married Sally Redondo in 1988. [3] A high-school dropout, [4] Lapre, together with his wife, started a credit repair business called Unknown Concepts in 1990.
The scam targets Marketplace sellers who’ve listed big-ticket items worth several hundred dollars. A buyer contacts a seller requesting to buy the item and pay using Zelle.
The China Hustle is a 2017 financial documentary film produced by Magnolia Pictures and directed by Jed Rothstein. [1] It reveals systematic and formulaic decades-long securities fraud by Chinese companies listed on the US stock market.
A financial columnist for New York Magazine has gone viral after she admitted to being scammed out of $50,000 from someone posing as a CIA agent.. Charlotte Cowles, a writer living in New York ...
Honey, a popular browser extension owned by PayPal, is the target of one YouTuber's investigation that was widely shared over the weekend—over 6 million views in just two days. The 23-minute ...
A mini-tender offer is an offer to acquire a company's shares directly from current investors in an amount less than 5% of issued stock.In the United States, the advantage is that it does not required all the disclosures required for larger tender offers and the relevant filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission though they remain subject to the anti-fraud provisions.