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  2. List of scams - Wikipedia

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    A common scam targeting businesses is the toner bandit swindle; an unsolicited caller attempts to trick front-office personnel into providing manufacturer/model or serial numbers for office equipment and/or the name of the employee answering the call. Often, the call will be misrepresented as a "survey" or a "prize" award. [100]

  3. Technical support scam - Wikipedia

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    The survey found that approximately 60% of consumers who participated had been exposed to a technical support scam within the last 12 months. [16] Victims reported losing an average of 200 USD to the scammers and many faced repeated interactions from other scammers once they had been successfully scammed. [ 16 ]

  4. No free lunch in search and optimization - Wikipedia

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    For typical interpretations of results, search is an optimization process. There is no free lunch in search if and only if the distribution on objective functions is invariant under permutation of the space of candidate solutions. [5] [6] [7] This condition does not hold precisely in practice, [6] but an " (almost) no free lunch" theorem ...

  5. Advance-fee scam - Wikipedia

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    An advance-fee scam is a form of fraud and is one of the most common types of confidence tricks. 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. [1] [2] If a victim makes the payment, the ...

  6. Why am I asked to verify my account after signing in?

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    If there's something unusual about your sign in or recent activity, we'll ask you to go through another verification step after you've entered the correct password. This is an important security feature that helps to protect your account from unauthorized access.

  7. List of U.S. presidential campaign slogans - Wikipedia

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    "Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Speech, Free Men, Fremont" – 1856 U.S. presidential campaign slogan of John Fremont "Fremont and freedom" – John Fremont "We'll Buck 'em in '56" – James Buchanan, playing on "Old Buck", the nickname associated with his last name.

  8. No Free Lunch (organization) - Wikipedia

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    No Free Lunch was a US -based advocacy organization holding that marketing methods employed by drug companies influence the way doctors and other healthcare providers prescribe medications. [1] The group did outreach to convince physicians to refuse to accept gifts, money, or hospitality from pharmaceutical companies because it claims that ...

  9. No free lunch theorem - Wikipedia

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    The "no free lunch" (NFL) theorem is an easily stated and easily understood consequence of theorems Wolpert and Macready actually prove. It is weaker than the proven theorems, and thus does not encapsulate them. Various investigators have extended the work of Wolpert and Macready substantively. In terms of how the NFL theorem is used in the ...