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Scams and confidence tricks are difficult to classify, because they change often and often contain elements of more than one type. Throughout this list, the perpetrator of the confidence trick is called the "con artist" or simply "artist", and the intended victim is the "mark".
Faxed scam letters are in no way an uncommon occurrence. Today many scam letters are still faxed to corporate institutions, although they are not a large amount due to cost restraints on behalf of offenders. Electronic mail. E-mail is today the prevalent way in which scam letters are distributed.
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.
August 11, 2024 at 11:07 AM. Scams asking people for personal information to fix their voter registration are rising. Bloomberg Creative/Getty Images. Officials are warning about voter ...
The FTC received 5,331 complaints containing the phrase “solar panels” between Jan. 1 and Sept. 19 of 2023, up 31% from the entire year of 2022 and up 746% since 2018, when it received just ...
A fundraising letter for Eric DeValkenaere on behalf of his wife Sarah contains false claims about the death of Cameron Lamb at the former Kansas City police officer’s hands. A reader from ...
Don Lapre. Donald D. Lapre (May 19, 1964 – October 2, 2011) [ 1] was an American multi-level marketing and infomercial salesman. His work involved product packages such as "The Greatest Vitamin in the World" and "Making Money Secrets". Lapre was criticized as selling questionable business plans that often did not work for his clients.
Peer-to-peer payment app scams. Peer-to-peer (P2P) payment apps like Paypal, Venmo and Zelle allow users to buy and sell products and services without exchanging credit card or bank account ...