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Hindenburg Research LLC is a U.S. investment research firm with a focus on activist short-selling founded by Nathan Anderson in 2017. [2] [3] [4] Named after the 1937 Hindenburg disaster, which they characterize as a human-made avoidable disaster, [5] the firm generates public reports via its website that allege corporate fraud and malfeasance. [6]
This was followed by the Rangarajan Committee, which too sought a national spot market. [9] Following the invitation from Ministry of Consumer Affairs (MCA), the Multi Commodities Exchange Ltd. (MCX) which was earlier a sister company of NSEL, submitted a project report for establishing a nationwide spot market for commodities.
The Government e Marketplace (or e-Marketplace) (GeM) is an online platform for public procurement in India. [1] The initiative was launched on 9 August 2016, by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry , Government of India with the objective to create an open and transparent procurement platform for government buyers. [ 2 ]
A pig butchering scam, a.k.a. "Sha Zhu Pan" [2] or Shazhupan, [3] (Chinese: 杀猪盘), translated as Killing Pig Plate, [1] is a type of long-term scam and investment fraud in which the victim is gradually lured into making increasing contributions, usually in the form of cryptocurrency, to a fraudulent cryptocurrency scheme. [4]
Wired, The New York Times, and The Observer reported that the data-set had included information on 50 million Facebook users. [35] [36] While Cambridge Analytica claimed it had only collected 30 million Facebook user profiles, [37] Facebook later confirmed that it actually had data on potentially over 87 million users, [38] with 70.6 million of those people from the United States. [39]
The scammer may run the netstat command in a terminal/command window, which shows local and foreign IP addresses. The scammer then tells the victim that these addresses belong to hackers that have gained access to their computer. [38] [39] [40] The scammer may claim that a legitimate Windows process such as rundll32.exe is a virus.
In August 2008, the CFTC set up a special task force to deal with growing foreign exchange fraud. [3] In January 2010, the CFTC proposed new rules limiting leverage to 10 to 1, based on "a number of improper practices" in the retail foreign exchange market, "among them solicitation fraud, a lack of transparency in the pricing and execution of transactions, unresponsiveness to customer ...
Another type of lottery scam is a scam email or web page where the recipient had won a sum of money in the lottery. The recipient is instructed to contact an agent very quickly but the scammers are just using a third party company, person, email or names to hide their true identity, in some cases offering extra prizes (such as a 7 Day/6 Night Bahamas Cruise Vacation, if the user rings within 4 ...