Money A2Z Web Search

  1. Ad

    related to: scams and frauds uk

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Great Stock Exchange Fraud of 1814 - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Stock_Exchange_Fraud...

    In the terminology of 1814, stocks refer to interest-bearing securities of the type that are today called bonds. The fraud particularly involved government bearer bond instruments called 'Omniums', which were partly-paid government bonds, where the purchaser initially only had to pay 10% or 15% of the face value and later made further ...

  3. Address fraud - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Address_fraud

    Address fraud. Address fraud is a type of fraud in which the perpetrator uses an inaccurate or fictitious address to steal money or other benefit, or to hide from authorities. [1] The crime may involve stating one's address as a place where s/he never lived, or continuing to use a previous address where one no longer lives as one's own.

  4. The Real Hustle - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Real_Hustle

    The Real Hustle is a factual entertainment series produced by Objective Productions for BBC Three. It features a team of hustlers—Alexis Conran, Paul Wilson and Jessica-Jane Clement—as they try out some notorious scams on members of the public, filmed with hidden cameras. The aim is to reveal how scams work so that the viewer can avoid ...

  5. Technical support scam - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_support_scam

    Norton named technical support scams as the top phishing threat to consumers in October 2021, having blocked over 12.3 million tech support scam URLs between July and September 2021. Response. Legal action has been taken against some companies carrying out technical support scams.

  6. Olympus scandal - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympus_scandal

    Background Building at Olympus head office in Tokyo Olympus Corporation, a major Japanese manufacturer of optical imaging equipment, laboratory equipment, and medical equipment listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange had, according to its accounts for the year ended 31 March 2011, consolidated net sales of ¥847.1 billion (US$10.6 billion) in the year, and total shareholders' equity of ¥262.5 ...

  7. Identity fraud - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_fraud

    Identity fraud is the use by one person of another person's personal information, without authorization, to commit a crime or to deceive or defraud that other person or a third person. Most identity fraud is committed in the context of financial advantages, such as accessing a victim's credit card, bank accounts, or loan accounts.

  8. Sham marriage - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sham_marriage

    In the UK, sham marriage is a form of immigration fraud undertaken to gain legal immigrant status. The fraud is investigated mostly by the UK Border Force and previously by the UK Border Agency. Increases in sham marriage were reported in London boroughs such as Wandsworth.

  9. Authorised push payment fraud - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authorised_push_payment_fraud

    Authorised push payment fraud (APP fraud) is a form of fraud in which victims are manipulated into making real-time payments to fraudsters, typically by social engineering attacks involving impersonation. [1] [2] These authorised frauds can also be related to investment scams, where the victim is tricked into sending money for investments that ...

  1. Ad

    related to: scams and frauds uk