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  2. Ripoff Report - Wikipedia

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    Ripoff Report allows users over the age of 14 [4] to complain anonymously about any firm or person. [5] The site requires creating an account before "reports" can be submitted [4] but it does not verify the identity of users. Ripoff Report results may show up on Google searches for the people (or firms) mentioned in the report, which can be ...

  3. United States v. Swartz - Wikipedia

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    In United States of America v.Aaron Swartz, Aaron Swartz, an American computer programmer, writer, political organizer and Internet activist, was prosecuted for multiple violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 (CFAA), after downloading academic journal articles through the MIT computer network from a source for which he had an account as a Harvard research fellow.

  4. Palmer v. Kleargear.com - Wikipedia

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    Palmer v. Kleargear.com, no. 13-cv-00175 ( D. Utah, filed December 18, 2013), is a 2013 US federal lawsuit in which an internet retailer was sued by two of its customers after it billed the customers for $3,500 following a negative review. The retailer, Kleargear.com, specializes in nerd apparel, geek toys, gadgets and office toys; it is owned ...

  5. Talk:Ripoff Report - Wikipedia

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    1 Ripoff Report should not be a legal source for this article. 7 comments. Toggle the table of contents. Talk: Ripoff Report. Add languages. Page contents not ...

  6. Rent-to-Own Deals Are a Massive Ripoff, Consumer Reports Finds

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    The Consumer Reports investigation found deals where a $600 computer cost nearly $1,900 after less than year's worth of payments, and a washer-dryer combo with an original price tag of $1,000 cost ...

  7. Franchise fraud - Wikipedia

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    Franchise fraud in U.S. federal law. The FBI website states: "pyramid schemes — also referred to as franchise fraud or chain referral schemes — are marketing and investment frauds in which an individual is offered a distributorship or franchise to market a particular product. The real profit is earned, not by the sale of the product, but by ...

  8. Talk:Ripoff Report/Archives/2011 - Wikipedia

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    5 Your nomination for deletion Rip-off Report page. 2 comments. 6 Beware. 1 comment. 7 Welcome Metatran. 1 comment. 8 bad-business-rip-off. 2 comments. 9 Moved to ...

  9. Pump and dump - Wikipedia

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    Pump and dump ( P&D) is a form of securities fraud that involves artificially inflating the price of an owned stock through false and misleading positive statements (pump), in order to sell the cheaply purchased stock at a higher price (dump). Once the operators of the scheme "dump" (sell) their overvalued shares, the price falls and investors ...