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2. List of Ponzi schemes - Wikipedia

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   Miller promised 10% a week interest and exploited some of the main themes of Ponzi schemes such as customers re-investing the interest they made. He defrauded buyers out of $1 million and was sentenced to jail for 10 years. After he was pardoned, he opened a grocery store on Long Island.

3. Criticism of Amazon - Wikipedia

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   Amazon.com offers the option to add an item to a user's cart or purchase it immediately with 1-Click. The company has been criticized for its alleged use of patents as a competitive hindrance; its " 1-Click patent" [2] may be the best-known example. Amazon's use of the 1-click patent against competitor Barnes & Noble 's website led the Free ...

4. Gift card - Wikipedia

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   Gift card. A gift card, also known as a gift certificate in North America, or gift voucher or gift token in the UK, [1] is a prepaid stored-value money card, usually issued by a retailer or bank, to be used as an alternative to cash for purchases within a particular store or related businesses. Gift cards are also given out by employers or ...

5. Gift Aid - Wikipedia

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   Gift Aid. Gift Aid is a UK tax incentive that enables tax -effective giving by individuals to charities in the United Kingdom. Gift Aid was introduced in the Finance Act 1990 for donations given after 1 October 1990, but was originally limited to cash gifts of £600 or more. This threshold was successively reduced in April 2000 when the policy ...

6. Kamala Harris - Wikipedia

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   Kamala Harris. Kamala Devi Harris ( / ˈkɑːmələ ˈdeɪvi / ⓘ KAH-mə-lə DAY-vee; [ 2] born October 20, 1964) is an American politician and attorney who is the 49th and current vice president of the United States since 2021 under President Joe Biden.

7. Lake Baikal - Wikipedia

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   Lake Baikal is in a rift valley, created by the Baikal Rift Zone, where the Earth's crust is slowly pulling apart. [ 5] At 636 km (395 mi) long and 79 km (49 mi) wide, Lake Baikal has the largest surface area of any freshwater lake in Asia, at 31,722 km 2 (12,248 sq mi), and is the deepest lake in the world at 1,642 metres (5,387 feet; 898 ...