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Examples include the diamond hoax of 1872 and the Bre-X gold fraud of the mid-1990s. This trick was featured in the HBO series Deadwood, when Al Swearengen and E. B. Farnum trick Brom Garret into believing gold is to be found on the claim Swearengen intends to sell him. This con was also featured in Sneaky Pete.
The preferred method of payment in a technical support scam is through gift cards. Gift cards are favoured by scammers because they are readily available to buy and have less consumer protections in place that could allow the victim to reclaim their money back. Additionally, the usage of gift cards as payment allows the scammers to extract ...
Elder fraud complaints to the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center rose by 14% last year, with losses increasing by 11% to $3.4 billion, according to a recent FBI report. Other estimates put ...
Great American Bank was an American savings and loan association based in San Diego. [1] It was founded in 1885 as San Diego Building and Loan Association, the first savings and loan in Southern California. [2] Until the 1980s, it operated as San Diego Federal Savings and Loan Association. Federal regulators seized and disbanded the bank in 1991.
The scam appears to be an improved version of a prior phishing campaign first seen this past March, and impersonates American Express so well, and with such devious messaging, that it may ...
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 ...
Archived official websiteat the Wayback Machine (archive index) Washington Mutual, Inc.(often abbreviated to WaMu) was an American savings bank holding companybased in Seattle. It was the parent company of WaMu Bank, which was the largest savings and loan associationin the United Statesuntil its collapse in 2008.
‘You didn’t want to risk it’: 80-year-old woman from South Carolina is looking for the safest place for her family’s $250,000 savings. Here's Dave Ramsey's response