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A romance scam is a confidence trick involving feigning romantic intentions towards a victim, gaining the victim's affection, and then using that goodwill to get the victim to send money to the scammer under false pretenses or to commit fraud against the victim.
On September 14, 2015, 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed was arrested at MacArthur High School in Irving, Texas, for bringing a disassembled digital clock to school. The incident ignited allegations of racial profiling and Islamophobia from many media sources and commentators. The episode arose when Mohamed reassembled the parts of a digital clock in ...
Technical support scams rely on social engineering to persuade victims that their device is infected with malware. [15] [16] Scammers use a variety of confidence tricks to persuade the victim to install remote desktop software, with which the scammer can then take control of the victim's computer.
The FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) received more than 101,000 reports of scams and fraud against people ages 60 and older in 2023, causing seniors to lose over $3.4 billion. And those ...
Nearly 20,000 scam calls have been made to unsuspecting Texans over the past month alone, some aggressively demanding payment. Hundreds of thousands of robocall scams target Texas student loan ...
Damien Martinez, RB: Miami (from Oregon State) Martinez provides a major boost to the Hurricanes ' rushing attack, compiling 1,185 yards and nine touchdowns while averaging 6.1 yards a carry as a ...
From late 2015 until the summer of 2016, during routine surveillance of Russians, several countries discovered "suspicious 'interactions' between figures connected to Trump and known or suspected Russian agents". The UK, Germany, Estonia, Poland, and Australia (and possibly the Netherlands and France) relayed their discoveries to the U.S. [191]
The FBI and DHS send a second "flash report" and a Joint Analysis Report warning about election systems being targeted. [ 143 ] : 8 The reports contain a list of suspicious IP addresses but do not mention that they are associated with a state actor, so many state IT directors do not understand the urgency of the reports and do not pass them on ...