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  2. List of scams - Wikipedia

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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]

  3. 'Recovery Services' Phone Scam Seeks Potentially Scary ...

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    But if there's any hesitation, the pitch changes quickly into a variation on the classic lottery scam, with the same caller now claiming he has an envelope with $275,000 or $277,000 awaiting the ...

  4. List of fake news websites - Wikipedia

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    The Washington Post submitted a complaint against Coler's registration of the site with GoDaddy under the UDRP, and in 2015, an arbitral panel ruled that Coler's registration of the domain name was a form of bad-faith cybersquatting (specifically, typosquatting), "through a website that competes with Complainant through the use of fake news ...

  5. Chaturanga - Wikipedia

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    Chaturanga (Sanskrit: चतुरङ्ग, IAST: caturaṅga, pronounced [tɕɐtuˈɾɐŋɡɐ]) is an ancient Indian strategy board game. It is first known from India around the seventh century AD. It is first known from India around the seventh century AD.

  6. A 67-year-old woman now lives in her car after losing ...

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    Americans lost about $650 million to romance scams in 2023. A California woman is out tens of thousands of dollars after sending the money to a scammer she thought was actor Keanu Reeves ...

  7. This Baltimore job hunter avoided an employment scam by ...

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    In fact, 32% of employment fraud victims came across the scam job posting on LinkedIn, one of the most popular job search tools. Now one tricky thing is that it is common practice to have to share ...

  8. Ripoff Report - Wikipedia

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    The Defamation Action League's strategy involved "protesting" the companies which hosted Ripoff Report and badbusinessbureau.com by setting up "protest sites" and engaging in annoyance strategies such as placing classified ads with the companies' telephone numbers for products they aren't selling or sending mass emails to other customers.

  9. Advance-fee scam - Wikipedia

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    Scam letter posted within South Africa. An advance-fee scam is a form of fraud and is a common confidence trick.The scam typically involves promising the victim a significant share of a large sum of money, in return for a small up-front payment, which the fraudster claims will be used to obtain the large sum.