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Red Cross: $6 Million Meant to Fight Ebola Was Stolen Through Fraud
Fraud by Red Cross workers and others wasted at least $6 million meant to fight the deadly Ebola outbreak in West Africa, the organization confirmed Saturday. The revelations follow an internal investigation of how the organization handled more than $124 million during the 2014-2016 epidemic that killed more than 11,000 people in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea.
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Bitcoin: The Most Impressive Speculative Bubble In Modern History
The effusive praise for this cryptocurrency is nothing but self-generated flimflam. By Christopher Whalen.
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Trump claims crime is on the rise. So why did the FBI delete key crime data?
Criminologists say they can't properly analyze crime trends without the missing data. By Pima Levy.
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Study: Millennials are duped by fraudsters more often than the elderly
Elderly people tend to get all the flak for falling prey to dubious online scams. But it appears that the trend may have nothing to do with seniority, according to an annual report from the Federal Trade Commission. In 2017, millennials reported losing money to fraud more often than those over the age of 70, the study showed.
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Trump Organization real estate partner in India accused of 'large-scale fraud'
The Trump Organization's real estate partner in India is being accused of at least $147 million in fraud. Two global investment companies last month filed a criminal complaint with New Delhi police against IREO, accusing the company of engaging in "large-scale fraud," The Washington Post reported. The complaint said the company was "illegally siphoning off" at least $147 million of investor money and allege the number could actually approach $200 million.
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Here’s How A Cabbage Juice “Cult” With 58,000 Followers Set Off A Facebook War
“I'm proud of being a leader of a poop cult,” Jillian Mai Thi Epperly once joked to fans of her signature recipe: a fermented slurry of salted cabbage that produces “waterfalls” of diarrhea. Here's the wild story of how she convinced thousands to believe her dangerous science, and how a grassroots movement shut her down when Facebook wouldn't. By Nidhi Subbaraman.
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Megachurch pastor indicted on $3.5 million fraud
A former religious adviser to President George W. Bush has been accused by federal prosecutors of defrauding investors of $3.5 million. Pastor Kirbyjohn Caldwell and a business partner, Gregory Smith, sold millions of dollars of worthless Chinese bonds, telling investors to "remain faithful and that they would receive their money," according to documents obtained by ABC Houston station KTRK. Both men could face significant jail time and be forced to forfeit assets.
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The U.S. Navy Wants to Spend Billions on Aircraft Carriers That Aren’t Ready
The U.S. Navy wants to go all in on the USS Ford-class aircraft carrier program. Less than a year after the first-in-class ship’s commissioning — before it ever launched or recovered an aircraft, a first in history — the sea service is exploring options to buy similar vessels in bulk.... By Dan Grazier.
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The largest Black Lives Matter page on Facebook has been exposed as a fraud
The largest Black Lives Matter page on Facebook is reportedly a fraud — run by a white man in Australia who used it to take in more than $100,000 in donations. The page was simply called “Black Lives Matter” and had nearly 700,000 followers, compared with the 322,000 for the verified page of the same name, CNN reported Monday. The bogus page has been suspended and online payment platforms PayPal, Patreon, Donorbox and Classy have stopped working with it.
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Acquisition Insanity: USS Ford Block-Buy Proposal
Navy leaders want Congress to commit billions of taxpayer dollars for two new aircraft carriers but no one can say that the design actually works. By Dan Grazier.
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Australian jailed for fake cancer scam
An Australian woman who faked having terminal cancer before scamming money from friends of her family has been jailed for three months. Hanna Dickenson, 24, accepted A$42,000 (£22,000; $31,000) after telling her parents that she needed medical treatment overseas. Her parents had received donations from their friends, a court was told. It heard Dickenson spent much of the money on holidays and socialising.
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‘Boy Who Came Back From Heaven’ Says He Didn’t
A quadriplegic man who emerged from a coma in 2004 claims Christian publisher Tyndale House published a fake near-death story about him going to heaven, which was concocted by his father after they survived a severe car accident. Alex Malarkey, 19, claims in a lawsuit filed Monday in Dupage County, Ill., that Tyndale House Publishers has made millions of dollars from a book his father wrote that falsely claimed he died and went to heaven, where he spoke to Jesus and the devil.
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White Judge Sentenced to Probation for Election Fraud in Same County Where Black Woman Received 5 Years
Right now, there is a black woman sitting in prison, reading about a Texas judge who was found guilty of the same crime she committed. She probably noticed that the judge was sentenced to five years’ probation in the same county that sentenced her to five years in jail. More than likely, she also noticed that she is black and the judge who was found guilty of turning in fake signatures to secure a spot in the Republican primary is white.
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Actors were paid to support Entergy’s power plant at New Orleans City Council meetings
Dozens of people in orange shirts showed up at meetings to support Entergy's new power plant. But for many of them, it was just an acting gig. They were paid to show up and speak on the company's behalf. The Lens interviewed a few of them and reviewed messages outlining the astroturfing effort. By Michael Isaac Stein.
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Texas doctor faces $240 million health care fraud case
Maria Zapata went to see Dr. Jorge Zamora-Quezada a little more than five years ago because one of her knees was bothering her. The rheumatologist told her that she had arthritis and that he'd give her injections "to strengthen the cartilage" in her knee, she said. Her husband asked, "Why are you giving her so many injections?" The doctor reassured them that the treatment would help.
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The DC Cybersecurity Think Tank Caught Using Fake Twitter Accounts Has Lost Sponsors, And Its Shady Cofounder Is Gone
Following a BuzzFeed News investigation, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology cofounder James Scott [spamming Snapzu as /u/Cyberdotnet et al.] has “voluntarily decided to step away” and a law firm will review claims about him. By Craig Silverman.
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The F-35 vs. A-10 Warthog Face-off Is a Total Sham. Here's Why
F-35 versus A-10 fly-off designed to mislead? We take a look. By Dan Grazier.
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U.S. busts massive India-based call centre scam that stole hundreds of millions
U.S. authorities have sentenced 21 people in connection with an India-based call centre scam that bilked Americans of hundreds of millions of dollars. Defendants were given sentences ranging from fines and probationary sentences to 20 years in prison, in what U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions called “the first-ever large-scale, multi-jurisdiction prosecution targeting the India call centre scam industry.”
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It’s called vomit fraud. And it could make your Uber trip really expensive
The next time you use Uber, check your bill. The trip could turn out to be expensive — not just for the distance but for a type of fraud that is on the rise. It’s called “vomit fraud,” a scam repeatedly denounced in social networks yet still taking place around the world. And Miami, of course, is a common spot. What is it? Passengers request Uber cars, which deliver them to their destination. So far so good.
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U.S. Breaks Up Fake I.R.S. Phone Scam Operation
With stiff sentences for 21 conspirators last week in the United States and a round of indictments in India, the Justice Department says it has broken up what appeared to be the nation’s first large-scale, multinational telephone fraud operation. Over four years, more than 15,000 victims in the United States lost “hundreds of millions” of dollars to the sophisticated scam, and more than 50,000 individuals had their personal information misused, the department said Friday.
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