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Coronavirus pandemic claims another victim: robocalls
Have you been missing something amid the lockdowns and stay-at-home orders? No, not human contact. Not even toilet paper. Robocalls. Industry experts say robocalls are way down — scam calls as well as nagging from your credit-card company to pay your bill. The coronavirus pandemic has inflicted millions of job losses, and scammers have not been immune.
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Coronavirus pandemic claims another victim: Robocalls
Have you been missing something amid the lockdowns and stay-at-home orders? No, not human contact. Not even toilet paper. Robocalls. Industry experts say robocalls are way down — scam calls as well as nagging from your credit-card company to pay your bill. The coronavirus pandemic has inflicted millions of job losses, and scammers have not been immune.
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Scamvangelist Praises Donors for Buying Him the World’s “Finest” Private Jet
People are struggling right now. They may be out of work. They may just be bored, at home, while trying to get through this pandemic. But not Kenneth Copeland. The televangelist who said in mid-March that God told him the pandemic would “be over much sooner than you think” (but still wants you to tithe even if you’ve lost your job) and who recently delivered a prayer that said COVID-19 is “finished,” offered a different message to his gullible followers yesterday.
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The Million-Dollar Scammer and His Many Mormon Marks
As a kid growing up in northern Utah, Chet Olsen would often take his older brother’s shotgun shells, empty out the pellets, and spread them across a flat surface. He would then guide the pellets around, pretending that each one was a sheep he had to tend to. Olsen, now 62, has a salt-and-pepper mustache that accents his serious demeanor, and his boots display telltale signs of a lifetime of hard, hands-on work.
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Criminals on CCTV: Scammers caught red-handed
The man who hacked into a criminal call centre to expose scammers at work.
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The government says this backpack is a fraud, but the creator says he’s just a failure
This smart backpack was Doug Monahan’s dumbest idea. Lots of people want a word with Doug Monahan — government lawyers, crowdfunding backers, people from his past, and me. I’d been trying to find him for over a year. As a reporter interested in crowdfunding disasters, I thought Monahan’s failed iBackpack project was one of the ultimate gadget pipe dreams gone bad. The beats were familiar: an idea that raised more than half a million dollars, only to never ship and leave behind thousands of angry backers. The difference in this story, however, is that for only the second time, the Federal Trade Commission is coming for the creator.
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Professor Jake Paul
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How to Spot a Rental Scam | 4 Ways to Tell If You're Being Scammed
Rental scams are on the rise and scam artists are more believable than ever. So how do you spot a scam? Here are 4 ways to tell if you're being scammed.
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iPhones made from rejected parts scam nets $43M
Apple is reportedly investigating a massive fraud by Foxconn managers who sold iPhones made from rejected parts.
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Visa warns that hackers are scraping card details from gas pumps
Visa warns of malware at gas pumps that could scrape your credit card data.
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Scams Are Killing the Phone Call
As North American governments struggle to fight it, the robocall epidemic could already be changing how we use our phones. If you've stopped picking up, you're not alone.
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Cryptoqueen: How this woman scammed the world, then ran
Ruja Ignatova called herself the Cryptoqueen. She told people she had invented a cryptocurrency to rival Bitcoin, and persuaded them to invest billions. Then, two years ago, she disappeared. Jamie Bartlett spent months investigating how she did it for the Missing Cryptoqueen podcast, and trying to figure out where she's hiding.
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I Accidentally Uncovered a Nationwide Scam on Airbnb
While searching for the person who grifted me in Chicago, I discovered just how easy it is for users of the short-term rental platform to get exploited.
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Food writer 'loses £5,000 in phone-number hijack'
Jack Monroe's bank and PayPal accounts were used after her mobile phone number was hijacked.
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Limerick student tricks scammer to give him money
A student from County Kilkenny in the Republic of Ireland has managed to scam money out of an internet scammer. The scammer transferred £25 to the student's account, which he subsequently donated to charity.
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The Art of the Con and Why People Fall for It
By definition, a con artist is a manipulator who cheats, or tricks, others through persuading them to believe something that is not true. Through deception, they fool people into believing they can make easy money when, in fact, it is the con artist who ends up taking the victim’s money. The criminal and legal consequences of such indiscretions can be insignificant or great, depending on the circumstances and the laws of the land. In the course of co-authoring The Crime Book...
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Busted: $10 Million Tech Support Scam That Preyed on the Elderly
Two individuals were arrested this week in connection with a fraud scheme that manipulated thousands of victims into paying for invented tech services that they didn’t need.
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Biohackers fell hard for a company selling hydrogen water, but many now say the whole thing was a scam
Trusii's hydrogen water machines were supposed to help users with their health problems, but customers claim the company is involved in a giant scam.
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Florida woman sentenced to prison for $1.6 million family curse scam
A Florida woman who claimed to be a fortune teller has been sentenced to three years and four months in prison for taking $1.6 million from a Texas woman to remove a curse from her family. Sherry Tina Uwanawich, 28, was sentenced last week, according to the Associated Press.
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22-year-old in Spain allegedly scammed Amazon out of $370K with return shipments filled with dirt
James Gilbert Kwarteng was arrested last Saturday for allegedly conning Amazon out of nearly $370,000 (€300,000) by sending return packages filled with dirt. In what is being called "the biggest Amazon scam ever recorded in Europe," (the second most lucrative financial scam against Amazon in general), the 22-year-old would fill up the ordered items' boxes with dirt with the exact weight of the product, and then register the item for a return.
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