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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 ...
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.
In mid-2017, Kitboga found out that his grandmother had fallen victim to many scams designed to prey on the elderly, both online and in person. [4] He then discovered "Lenny", a loop of vague pre-recorded messages that scam baiters play during calls to convince the scammer that there is a real person on the phone without providing any useful information to the scammer.
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The online video game Second Life has its own economy and a virtual token referred to as Linden Dollars (L$). In the SL economy, users (called "residents") buy from and sell to one another directly, using the Linden, which is a closed-loop virtual token for use only within the Second Life platform. Linden Dollars have no monetary value and are ...
Razor and blades model. A razor with its attached blade. With the razor and blades model, the razor would be inexpensive but the blades would come at a significant cost. The razor and blades business model[ 1] is a business model in which one item is sold at a low price (or given away for free) in order to increase sales of a complementary good ...
The World Stock Exchange (WSE) was a virtual stock exchange created by Hope Capital Pty. Ltd. of Melbourne, Australia and managed by CEO, Luke Connell. The game opened on 5 March 2007 and first appeared in the virtual world of Second Life. [1] Transactions occurred outside of Second Life on the WSE website. [2]
Anshe Chung is the main avatar (online personality) of Ailin Graef in the online world Second Life.Referred to as the "Rockefeller of Second Life" by a CNN journalist, she has built an online business that engages in development, brokerage, and arbitrage of virtual land, items, and currencies, and has been featured in a number of prominent magazines such as Business Week, Fortune and Red Herring.