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Shā Zhū Pán. A pig butchering scam, a.k.a. " Sha Zhu Pan " [1] or Shazhupan [2] ( Chinese: 杀猪盘 ), 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. [3] They are commonplace on social ...
Mobile phone spam is a form of spam (unsolicited messages, especially advertising), directed at the text messaging or other communications services of mobile phones or smartphones. As the popularity of mobile phones surged in the early 2000s, frequent users of text messaging began to see an increase in the number of unsolicited (and generally ...
Pepsi Number Fever. The logo for the sales promotion. Market share of Pepsi in the Philippines initially increased from 19.4% to 24.9%. Mistake in ₱1 million grand prize winning bottle cap distribution led to riots and deaths. The Pepsi Number Fever, [1] also known as the 349 incident, [2] was a promotion held by PepsiCo in the Philippines in ...
Adarsh Housing Society scandal. Coordinates: 18.9093°N 72.8167°E. Adarsh Housing Society in July 2011. The Adarsh Housing Society is a 31-story building constructed on prime real estate in Colaba, Bombay, for the welfare of war Widows and personnel of India's Ministry of Defence. Over a period of several years, politicians, bureaucrats and ...
The app consisted of a series of questions to build psychological profiles on users, and collected the personal data of the users’ Facebook friends via Facebook's Open Graph platform. [2] The app harvested the data of up to 87 million Facebook profiles. [2] Cambridge Analytica used the data to analytical assist the 2016 presidential campaigns ...
Ray Nitschke. Raymond Ernest Nitschke (December 29, 1936 – March 8, 1998) was an American professional football player who spent his entire 15-year career as a linebacker in the National Football League (NFL) with the Green Bay Packers. [1] Enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1978, he was the anchor of the defense for head coach ...
A total ban was imposed in January 2007 following incidents of kidnappings in Nigeria. Partially lifted in March 2007 to allow returning Filipino migrant workers employed in Nigeria. Total ban was reimposed in 2008 and includes Filipino seafarers boarded on ships docking on Nigerian ports. Partial March 13, 2007 – January 31, 2008: Total
IN. Internet TLD. .in ( others) India, officially the Republic of India ( ISO: Bhārat Gaṇarājya ), [21] is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area; the most populous country as of June 2023; [22] [23] and from the time of its independence in 1947, the world's most populous democracy.