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A Facebook message falsely claimed the grocery store chain Aldi will deliver bags of free food to customers who help spread the word about the offer.
Not All Checkout Line Money Traps Are Scams. Grocery stores made an art out of parting shoppers from their money at the checkout line long before scammers decided to get in on the action. Julie ...
July 21, 2022 at 1:08 PM. Kameleon007 / Getty Images/iStockphoto. The latest scam is claiming that adults over the age of 51 can get a spending card through certain government programs. However ...
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.
The strip search phone call scam was a series of incidents, mostly occurring in rural areas of the United States, that extended over a period of at least ten years, starting in 1994. The incidents involved a man calling a restaurant or grocery store, claiming to be a police officer, and then convincing managers to conduct strip searches of ...
Fodder Scam. The Fodder Scam involved hundreds of millions of dollars in alleged fraudulent reimbursements from the treasury of Bihar state for fodder, medicines and husbandry supplies for non-existent livestock. Lalu Prasad Yadav, on the left, is the highest-profile person convicted in the fodder scam. The Fodder Scam was a corruption scandal ...
Per Identity Guard, “In one common scam, fraudsters create a fake Facebook page for a familiar company, state lottery, or sweepstakes, and either post offers for free prizes or send victims ...
Advance-fee scam. 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 ...