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  2. Inflation Reduction Act - Wikipedia

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    The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 ( IRA) is a landmark [1] [2] United States federal law which aims to possibly reduce the federal government budget deficit, lowering prescription drug prices, and investing into domestic energy production while promoting clean energy. It was passed by the 117th United States Congress and signed into law by ...

  3. Cramming (fraud) - Wikipedia

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    Cramming is a form of fraud in which small charges are added to a bill by a third party without the subscriber's consent, approval, authorization or disclosure. These may be disguised as a tax, some other common fee or a bogus service, and may be several dollars or even just a few cents. The crammer's intent is that the subscriber will overlook ...

  4. Pig butchering scam - Wikipedia

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    Hanyu Pinyin. Shā Zhū Pán. A pig butchering scam, or " Sha Zhu Pan " [1] ( 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. [2] They are commonplace on social apps.

  5. Fortune telling fraud - Wikipedia

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    Fortune telling fraud, also called the bujo or egg curse scam, is a type of confidence trick, based on a claim of secret or occult information. The basic feature of the scam involves diagnosing the victim (the "mark") with some sort of secret problem that only the grifter can detect or diagnose, and then charging the mark for ineffectual ...

  6. Telephone numbers in the United Arab Emirates - Wikipedia

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    Country code. +971. International access. 00. Long-distance. 0. Telephone numbers in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) follow a closed telephone numbering plan. The UAE is assigned an international dialing code of +971 by ITU. Telephone numbers are fixed at seven digits, with area codes fixed at two or three digits.

  7. Lenny (bot) - Wikipedia

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    According to research into the bot, around 75% of callers realise they are talking to a computer program within two minutes; however, some calls have lasted around an hour. Distribution. Though other chatbots had been developed earlier, Lenny was the first one to be released for free on a public server and could be accessed by anyone.

  8. 1980 Pennsylvania Lottery scandal - Wikipedia

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    The 1980 Pennsylvania Lottery scandal, colloquially known as the Triple Six Fix, was a successful plot to rig The Daily Number, a three-digit game of the Pennsylvania Lottery. All of the balls in the three machines, except those numbered 4 and 6, were weighted, meaning that the drawing was almost sure to be a combination of those digits.

  9. Spanish Prisoner - Wikipedia

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    Spanish Prisoner. A newspaper clipping from 1904, detailing the attempted Spanish Prisoner scamming of a McKeesport, Pennsylvania man. The Spanish Prisoner is a confidence trick originating by at least the early 19th century, as Eugène François Vidocq described in his memoirs. [1] [2]