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1. Scammers. If you’re getting a text message without a company associated with it — maybe from a random guy named “James” — it’s probably in your best interest to ignore it. “If ...
The Ohio Housing Finance Agency is warning Ohioans about a scam page on Facebook claiming to have opened a wait list for sought-after Section 8 vouchers and public housing assistance.
Many popular fake news websites like ABCnews.com.co attempted to impersonate a legitimate U.S. news publication, relying on readers not actually checking the address they typed or clicked on. They exploited common misspellings, slight misphrasings and abuse of top-level domains such as .com.co as opposed to .com.
Comprobado (hosted by Maldita.es). [ 135] Miniver.org: the first fact-checking web in Spain, launched in 2017, with the purpose of debunking fake news. Accredited by Google as fact-checking organization. [ 136] Newtral: Spanish fact-checking organization founded by journalist Ana Pastor from LaSexta.
The FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) received more than 101,000 reports of scams and fraud against people ages 60 and older in 2023, causing seniors to lose over $3.4 billion. And those ...
1860s. Jacob Young, William Abrams, and Nancy Clem ran what author Wendy Gamber argues, in her book The Notorious Mrs. Clem: Murder and Money in the Gilded Age, was the first-ever Ponzi scheme. [ 1][ 2] In Munich, Germany, Adele Spitzeder founded the "Spitzedersche Privatbank" in 1869, promising an interest rate of 10 percent per month.
James F. Hastings (R-NY) was convicted of taking kickbacks from his staff and mail fraud. He took the money from his employees and used it to buy cars, boats, school tuition and retirement. Served 14 months at Allenwood penitentiary. (1976) [195]
Three cities in the state -- Toledo, Dayton and Cleveland -- made the list of top 10 "no-brainer" markets, where you are almost certain to save more by buying instead of renting, in Trulia's ...