I've never been scammed, but I know I can be scammed.
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"Donald Trump scammed me and he scammed over 5,000 people," she says.
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"The telcos may not be aware they were scammed but they were indeed scammed," McGilvrey said.
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I got scammed by chess hustlers in Washington Square and later learned to have fun watching tourists get scammed by chess hustlers.
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Getting scammed is still part of the risk for buyers and sellers, though — both Aarsand and Looney say they have been scammed multiple times.
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This included phishing programs that kept staffers from being scammed.
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You shouldn't be getting scammed out of an extra $30.
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Jillian didn't back down, and still feels she's being scammed.
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I too was hustled, scammed, bamboozled, hood winked, lead astray!!!
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"If you're scammed no one will help you," said Strake.
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This ensures you won't get scammed by any predatory mechanics.
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I'm so inspired, I'll never get scammed in my life.
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Just don't try to tell me that I've been scammed.
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Here's how to help, and how to avoid being scammed.
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"I thought he was getting scammed, defrauded," she said later.
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"And then I realize that I've been scammed," Heath said.
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Most people said they were scammed after a phone call.
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Those unlucky ones are usually moments away from getting scammed.
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I told a friend at the time that I'd either been scammed and the money was gone anyway, or I'd not been scammed and I'd have better returns later if I bought more hash power.
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"I too was hustled, scammed, bamboozled, hood winked, lead [sic] astray!!!"
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I was going to the workshop, eager to get scammed myself.
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Palmer offered some tips to avoid being scammed: • Immediate red flag!
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Now looks like he has raided and scammed even more countries!
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Men are 2.5 times more likely to be scammed than women.
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Now looks like he has raided and scammed even more countries!
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Like Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Hustle ends with the scammers being scammed.
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I don't mind spending money on things, I just hate getting scammed.
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It also left many would-be attendees wondering if they'd been scammed.
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She could have trotted out scammed Trump University students and wounded investors.
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Writing a first person piece about being scammed by the same person.
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Related: 8 ways to avoid getting scammed when buying a car online
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Serena: Well, usually they're young—we all get scammed when we're inexperienced.
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See how predatory lender Scott Tucker scammed $1 billion from desperate borrowers.
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He has vowed to pay those back he scammed — from polka shows.
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Facebook doesn't care about you Everyday, countless users are scammed on Facebook.
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Willocks admits that he was Newton Bennett, the man who scammed Schmeets.
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Have you ever been scammed by someone exploiting a short-term rental platform?
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How many other people who had been scammed out of money like me?
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Brown scammed $800,000 in donations for a charity in the name of education.
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And after I've paid, there is the unshakable sense that I've been scammed.
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Other tips include: "No one is too smart to be scammed,"Weisman says.
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Steve Wozniak was scammed out of $70K in bitcoin because he forgot this.
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Read: Fyre Festival fraudster Billy McFarland said he scammed everyone because he's bipolar.
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If you're worried about being scammed, know what red flags to look for.
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She also scammed her employer out of thousands of dollars in sick pay.
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Her mother said her daughter had been "scammed," but still doesn't realize it.
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Her mother said her daughter had been scammed, but still doesn't realize it.
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"Defendant scammed me out of at least $2000,228,2000," he wrote in his filing.
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I don't deserve to be shamed for it, or scammed because of it.
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The indictment further alleges that some victims were scammed again by the fraudsters.
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But if you don't have a trusted trader, you can easily get scammed.
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On the subreddit for the Grams mixing service, several people have reported being scammed.
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A man scammed over $100 million out of Google and Facebook with fake invoices.
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She almost scammed Kimye, their fans, her own fans, and the world at large.
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I ended up paying the full price...I don't want to get scammed again.
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Or does it have more to do with the people who are getting scammed?
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These schemes don't always work, though, and a number of users have been scammed.
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She got scammed by a look-alike website (Philadelphia Inquirer) View the discussion thread.
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The agreement stipulated the revenue would pay back ticket-holders who had been scammed.
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"People are embarrassed when we get scammed, and you shouldn't be embarrassed," Trumpower said.
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They are far from the only company to get scammed by West African nationals.
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And the people you tipped off were also entitled to protection from being scammed.
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Agencies and would-be sponsors know they're being scammed, and are growing more vigilant.
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The conversation with the officer worked, and the woman believed she was being scammed.
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"After I've paid, there is the unshakable sense that I've been scammed," he wrote.
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After years of being ripped off and scammed, we were grateful to have them.
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When people figured out they had been scammed, they came to my parents to complain.
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Cooper is accused of scamming Kimball the same way Bachelor in Paradise scammed us all.
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That way, you can shop without worrying about getting scammed or being sent a fake.
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Ronaldinho somehow scammed his way into getting a nickname on the back of his jersey.
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"People all across this country were scammed and squeezed by Wells Fargo," Warren said Wednesday.
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How can you harness the value of gold in these uncertain times without getting scammed?
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Countless people have been scammed out of thousands of dollars that they'll never get back.
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By the time he realized he'd been scammed, his bank said the money was gone.
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Following accusations that he had scammed his young fans, however, he disappeared from the internet.
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They don't validate the legitimacy of the investment, so there's a potential to be scammed.
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A quick Google search revealed plenty of places to either get medications or get scammed.
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Eventually, the reader realizes this is — the headline gives it away — the reader realizes these people are being scammed even though the people are telling you this aren't sure at the time they're being scammed, and then you get to Anna at the very end.
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Raise your hand if you've ever been personally hustled, scammed, and bamboozled by apple cider vinegar?
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In reality, the only people being scammed are the ones who believe this article is real.
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You can be an expert in whatever drug, but you are never safe from being scammed.
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When Facebook users get scammed, they don't just blame the scammer but the social network too.
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"I feel I am being and have been scammed," the car buyer wrote to the CFPB.
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All we ask is that you protect people from being scammed by notarios or fraudulent lawyers.
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The message includes an Ethereum address that is filled with people commenting that they've been scammed.
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Let us introduce you to Kittenfishing, the newest way to get scammed on a dating app.
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He is trying to scam America the way he scammed all those people at Trump University.
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"I have friends who have been scammed on Craig and his so-called List," he wrote.
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" He then stated later that day, "I too was hustled, scammed, bamboozled, hood winked, lead astray!!!
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Photo: GettyCustomers of the Infowars store are getting scammed every day but this time it's different.
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Nobody knew what happened in the kitchen, so nobody knew those old people were being scammed.
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Mostly I've been successful—I've been scammed a few times, though, but only for small amounts.
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Bernie Madoff's family is not done paying back the money he scammed from thousands of investors.
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Customers start a "Scammed by Cuff" page Tabb wasn't the only one left in the lurch.
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But for those for whom Kanye isn't the world, we get the sensation of being scammed.
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If you're interested in supporting St. Jude's efforts without being scammed, here's how you can help.
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I had the editor-in-chief of Time magazine for 35 years, he had been scammed.
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There are countless stories of people getting scammed online by someone claiming to be Nigerian royalty.
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Moreover, what Escamilla perceived to be an "edge" wasn't — and inexperience led to him being scammed.
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I ask Carley if she thinks Instagrammers are more susceptible to being scammed than other groups.
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"It didn't really seem that the more financially knowledgeable were less likely to be scammed," she noted.
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You also want to minimize the chances of getting scammed, especially with more expensive, big-ticket items.
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"We too were hustled, scammed, bamboozled, hood winked, lead [sic] astray!!!" wrote the team's official Twitter account.
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People want to browse and have confidence in [a] brand, and they don't want to be scammed.
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"I feel so scammed and betrayed by the government, which is honestly so naive," Kathryn told me.
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In life, Eleanor Shellstrop (Kristen Bell) scammed the elderly into buying useless medicines, among other dubious undertakings.
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Mango told me his dedication to Lenny mostly stems from seeing people get scammed far too often.
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But just as the system works to scam the powerless, so too can the system be scammed.
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"I got scammed big time," user cioloxl wrote in the Confido thread on popular cryptocurrency forum Bitcointalk.
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As a result, a good portion of the American population is being scammed on a daily basis.
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Defendants based in the U.S. would help to liquidate and launder the money scammed from the victims.
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We scammed an excerpt from the chapter "Adventures in Being a Bullshitter," which you can read below.
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One man complained about being scammed out of a giant £19,417 [$113,825], the largest amount authorities recorded.
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One woman phoned me quite a lot, but she realized relatively quickly it wasn't me [who scammed her].
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She knew she had been scammed and wasn't going to stand down until she received every penny back.
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For my family, we lost status and a pathway to legal permanent residency when our sponsors scammed us.
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But as the marketplace grows, the company's losses to cover scammed customers increases with the risk of fraud.
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But most of the women who actually paid for the event told BuzzFeed News they didn't feel scammed.
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"He is trying to scam America the way he scammed all those people at Trump University," she said.
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He was also an obnoxious, abusive CB radio troll who sold radio equipment online and scammed his customers.
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His scam became undone when buyers rallied together in Whatsapp groups after realising that they had been scammed.
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The Alpharetta woman wasn't the only woman Hill had allegedly swept off her feet and scammed, police learned.
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It never occurs to him that he might be getting scammed just by playing in the first place.
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Alec Baldwin says he got scammed when trying to visit the Statue of Liberty with his family recently.
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I've stopped all this stuff now—I earn my living, and above all I'm sorry I scammed minors.
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Eze gets scammed before he even passes through customs in Lagos and emerges into its parched, weedy cityscape.
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I was officially not being scammed by an international sock company, which honestly came as a slight surprise.
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The insurers he scammed — Aetna, Cigna, and UnitedHealthcare — then allowed his fraud to proceed for years, largely unchecked.
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Hire Interstate Movers Without Getting Scammed Moving across town is one thing, but across state lines is another.
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There are decidedly fewer stories of people getting scammed in person by an actual member of Nigerian royalty.
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"I was scammed a few times in the beginning because I didn't really understand the software," he said.
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The bit of advice I have about avoiding being scammed is don't pay with anything other than PayPal.
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If you think you have already been scammed, file a report with the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center.
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Judith stumped up £140,000 ($175,000) before realising that she had been scammed: "John" was the invention of a fraudster.
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Reputation scores appended to products, vendors and buyers gave users confidence that they were not about to be scammed.
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When Gibson discovered he was being scammed, he alerted his lawyer, who told the woman to stop contacting him.
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"He is trying to scam America the way he scammed all those people at Trump University," Clinton reportedly said.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Cybercriminals scammed the Rijksmuseum Twenthe in Enschede, the Netherlands out of $2100 million.
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"He is trying to scam America the way he scammed all those people at Trump University," she reportedly said.
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Matt Damon and Ben Affleck are working on a movie about a person who scammed the McDonald's Monopoly game.
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Cops say Riess scammed her way into Hutchinson's condo, shot her in the heart, and emptied out her purse.
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"They completely scammed me," said Mr. Fainman, 25, who gave Mr. Johnson and his partners $253,000 for the film.
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Last year, many parents were scammed while shopping on digital marketplaces and through Facebook while attempting to procure Hatchimals.
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Amazon's return grift has been known for years, both within hacking circles and among sellers who have been scammed.
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Almost 9 million people lost their homes, many were scammed, others went bankrupt and lost their jobs, wages stagnated.
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As Marc Dumay waited to board a boat on Saturday, he began to wonder if he had been scammed.
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Hustlers is a tale about Wall Street, strippers, and the many ways to get paid or scammed in America.
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You could end up missing red flags that would help you avoid paying too much, or worse, getting scammed.
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It's still early in the year and there's no evidence yet that anyone has been scammed in this manner.
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Last week, the man stopped corresponding with my friend's colleague, who now fully realizes that she has been scammed.
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After hearing nothing back from her multiple attempts to contact Yankee Candle, Matrisciano began to worry she'd gotten scammed.
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The story of how Anna Delvey scammed her way into a luxurious New York City lifestyle opens up many questions.
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On Monday, Gothamist reported that attendees of the September 9 New York City Pizza Festival might have been seriously scammed.
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"Some fraction of those people are going to get scammed and it's going to be for real money," Quilici said.
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Reuters reported last year how the venture, known as EuroFX, allegedly scammed thousands of investors in China and other countries.
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That's an incredible number of people getting scammed, and the industry's newfound prevalence online means that number will only rise.
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One study put the cost of robocalls in 2016 at $9.5 billion, with the average victim scammed out of $430.
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From the onset of our so-called independence, systems have scammed the marginalized: black people; queer people; women; the poor.
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Hackley, the Securian broker, said his client who was scammed out of $147,000 had been the victim of identity theft.
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In the meantime, here are some extra tips to avoid being scammed by skimmers: This article originally appeared on TODAY.
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The yarn that ensued was about a man who scammed her while she was out eating food with her family.
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Then we talk about why people who attended last year's disastrous Fyre Fest think they might still be getting scammed.
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So long as Facebook's users aren't getting scammed, the company would certainly love to take on the extra ad revenue.
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It is, in essence, a cabal, Dugan alleges — a system that can be scammed by people with the right connections.
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Grace and Frankie get scammed by a bad contractor in Season 4, and anyone who's ever been catfished can relate.
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The woman shared with my friend that her parents, with whom she lives, warned her that she was being scammed.
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"Girl, you better show up and hand a pepsi to everyone scammed by the fyre fest quick," read one tweet.
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Similarly: How many of them have scammed a separate 30-day trial with a separate address to listen to Beyonce?
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Basing your scam around the government agency meant to protect consumers from getting scammed is not a smart thing to do.
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James McAvoy claims he narrowly avoided getting scammed out of nearly $13,000 while attempting to plan a family vacation to Spain.
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I lied, stole from my parents, cheated, scammed, humiliated others and laughed, threw rocks at people with the intent to kill.
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Several consumers have reported being scammed on Facebook, among other sites, while attempting to procure the toy for their young ones.
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As for whether Lee thinks Jussie scammed everyone with the alleged attack, he says there are 2 judges and only 2.
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People getting scammed out of hundreds of dollars after believing that they were interacting with someone who had a romantic interest.
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I have been scammed, I have been manipulated, and I have been lied to, all for trying to follow my dreams.
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According to the New York Police Department, 21 Chinese immigrants have been scammed out of $2.5 million since December 21st, 2017.
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She watched her mother Peggy (Nia Long), fall into depression and alcoholism after being scammed out of $20,000 by her boyfriend.
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Binns said relatives alerted police to concerns that Reed was being scammed by someone using a false identity to woo her.
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Eddie is one of a growing number of men involved in catfishism, a fetish centered around getting scammed on the internet.
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It seems Apple has been scammed by a couple of students, but it doesn't look likely to end well for them.
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Side hustles are becoming more and popular among workers, but with many of them, there's a high risk of getting scammed.
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Jevans noted that in all likelihood the bulk of the $1.7 billion in stolen and scammed cryptocurrencies has already been laundered.
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I took pride in my job, keeping the dating site a safe space, and here people were being scammed and heartbroken.
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"He is trying to scam America the way he scammed all those people at Trump U." On the campaign trail, Mrs.
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A Russian man was penalized by an airline after he scammed his overweight cat into the passenger cabin of a flight.
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BROADLY: This season, you revealed that you had to file bankruptcy in 2015 after you were scammed in a Ponzi scheme.
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Tips to avoid getting scammed Talk to your kids about how to spot and avoid "Fortnite" scams and other scams online.
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The team of seven Vietnamese nationals seem to have left the country while scammed investors massed outside the company's old headquarters.
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The real question here is whether or not consumers are getting scammed every time they buy Double Downs and popcorn chicken.
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To be as safe as possible and to avoid getting scammed, Jain says staying in a more public place is ideal.
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Various studies estimate that seniors in the U.S. are scammed out of anywhere from $3 billion to $37 billion a year.
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Overall, about two-thirds of those surveyed said they feared unintentionally buying fake tickets or getting scammed when purchasing concert passes.
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Anyway, an unidentified woman called the cops in Craigavon, Northern Ireland to report that she'd been scammed by her drug dealer.
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"If you've been scammed by your dealer and would like pay back, call 101, PM us, or phone Crimestoppers," they wrote.
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It's a private-party market where users can buy or sell used vehicles directly, but the app helps buyers avoid getting scammed.
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No, Robert Downey Jr. is not messaging you privately and asking you to donate money to a charitable cause— you're being scammed.
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On YouTube, there already are several people who have posted "reviews" of Edfluenced or talked about how they got scammed by it.
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"If you want to play games on the Nintendo Switch without getting scammed, your best option is to buy a Nintendo Switch."
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The Internal Revenue said fraudsters scammed the agency out of more than $1.6 million in fraudulent returns during the 2016 tax year.
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Money has been pouring in to help victims' families and their beneficiaries ... and GoFundMe is guaranteeing no one gets scammed this time.
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Nothing has been done about this until this weekend when Alec Baldwin and his family were scammed (celebrities, they're just like us!).
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Last year, many parents were scammed while shopping on digital marketplaces and through Facebook while attempting to procure Hatchimals for their children.
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But one dealmaker and avid art collector claims he was scammed by a professor and her son, who sold him forged paintings.
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The Charities Bureau of state Attorney General's office reviews all development deals involving churches to make sure the nonprofits aren't being scammed.
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In the U.S., an audio deepfake of a CEO scammed one company out of $10 million, according to Symantec researcher Saurabh Shintre.
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In a separate report earlier this year, Truecaller estimated that 803 million Americans were scammed last year and lost about $10.5 billion.
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Months after Corinthian's closure, President Obama unveiled a loan forgiveness program for students who could prove that their college had scammed them.
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Aware he had been scammed and concerned his parents would find out, the man "decided to concoct a cover story," according to police.
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Miranda's role is reportedly based on an incident in Klausner's real life: She was scammed out of tickets to the hit Broadway show.
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When James suddenly became agitated and started sending multiple texts when he wouldn't respond fast enough, Tannehill ultimately suspected he had been scammed.
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He even scammed the family of his former fiancee, Catherine "Cat" McRae, an employee of Fred Alger Management who died in the Sept.
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It's only days later, when the distributors try to contact the company and reach a disconnected number, that they realize they've been scammed.
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It would be a nightmare scenario for Facebook to have bots appear that phished information from users or scammed them in other ways.
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Photo: Alex Cranz (Gizmodo)In a grift for the ages, two engineering students allegedly scammed Apple out of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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Vinnik apparently used the WME identity to complain about being scammed out of $100,000 worth of Bitcoin on Bitcoin's official forums in 2012.
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"RD Legal scammed 9/11 heroes and NFL concussion victims out of millions of dollars," CFPB Director Richard Cordray said in a statement.
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You don't spend too much money, don't get scammed, and get a decent-looking fake that works at some bars and liquor stores.
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Firefox users are gettin' scammed and Uber is gettin' slammed—but first, a cartoon about not liking what you see in the mirror.
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That lawsuit alleged that the university had scammed more than 5,000 people out of more than $40 million, according to The Miami Herald.
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Last year, many parents were scammed while shopping on digital marketplaces and through Facebook while attempting to procure Hatchimals for their young ones.
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People have worried they could get scammed—requesters about getting back bad work, and workers about taking on tasks that never pay out.
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"On each occasion, she has preyed on the sympathy and compassion of others, receiving services and goods from those victims whom she scammed."
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Although many of these restrictions were reported online, McFarland ultimately scammed about $36,000 in fake tickets to the event, according to the complaint.
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If someone's trying to say that I scammed them, that's only because they don't know and don't have the information that we have.
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That may leave some would-be investors more open to being scammed than usual, as appears to have been the case with Enigma.
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There are multiple civil lawsuits against Trump University after several students, who were charged up to $35,000 in tuition, claimed they were scammed.
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If you've been scammed and you file a complaint, you might be entitled to restitution if a court orders defendants to pay up.
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In an article published earlier this week, Chandler Fowles, 25, told of being scammed last spring by a man she met on SeekingArrangement.
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Tucker was a professional race car driver who is convinced of running a fraudulent online payday lending company that scammed 4.5 million people.
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I feel secondhand guilt on behalf of my friend, who knew for several weeks that her colleague was being scammed but didn't intervene.
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By and large, the people who got scammed were the kind of people who have money, at least in a conspicuous, Instagrammy way.
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In the last few years, there have also been reports of sugar babies being scammed out of money, sexually assaulted, and even killed.
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" And someone else scammed by Madoff wrote, "Of course it was bad what he has done and I think he knows it too.
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Facebook's goal was to prevent users from getting scammed by Initial Coin Offerings and other cryptocurrency deals where providers had little to no accountability.
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According to the indictment, many of the victims were investors who were scammed out of millions of dollars because of fraudulently inflated stock prices.
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AlphaBay went down unexpectedly earlier this month, prompting speculation among users that the site's founders had scammed them or been caught by law enforcement.
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The rapper cited the lack of FBI investigations and legal charges against him as proof that he was not the one who scammed people.
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"We are very concerned that more and more people are being scammed by fraudsters impersonating me," Branson said in a blog post published Wednesday.
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So when she found a room for $1,225 (utilities included) in a spacious, modernized apartment in Williamsburg, she was sure she was being scammed.
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Just about every time Donald Trump cuts a deal, someone's getting scammed—students, workers, charity donors, veterans, piano makers, taxpayers, models, you name it.
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Many of the people she's talked to who have been scammed said they felt uneasy about the job at some point but continued anyway.
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But one deal maker and avid art collector claims that he was scammed by a professor and her son, who sold him forged paintings.
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Some say it provides a model for the U.S. (NYT) • Here's a look at the couple that scammed Berkshire Hathaway for millions of dollars.
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They're the best because they are the saddest — the catalog of folks who were not only owned by the algorithm, but scammed by it.
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It's such a big scam that it's not even clear who's being scammed — middle-class taxpayers, people who care about budget deficits, or both.
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Many of the victims were "struggling to pay basic living expenses" with some customers being scammed out of thousands of dollars, the government says.
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The effort sought to use private Social Security earnings data to deny debt relief to individuals that had been scammed by for-profit colleges.
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"Apart from this group, I have been informed that there are hundreds of other soldiers who are scammed in a similar situation," said Atchariya.
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Dozens of students and instructors wrote sworn statements describing their experiences, with some calling the school a fraud or describing how they were scammed.
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South Carolina prison inmates, aided by civilians, scammed 442 service members from the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps out of over $560,000.
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Sure, he scammed lots of people, but did you know that Trump University School of Ripping People Off is ranked second in the nation?
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With his best fake British accent, Tommy Muscatello scammed his way into history just in time for the nuptials of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry.
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Local: National: Companies: Don't get scammed: Stay up to date on the latest info on social media with hashtag #Harvey and other ways to help.
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The New Jersey woman who, with her boyfriend and a homeless man, allegedly scammed $400,000 from GoFundMe donors pleaded guilty Monday, according to multiple reports.
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Stafford nearly fell for it, until the manager at the store where she went to buy the gift cards told her she was being scammed.
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"Naive followers are getting scammed by imposters and the hundreds of other devious scam masters that are proliferating," he tweeted from his verified account, @officialmcafee.
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To ensure he isn't scammed, Laermer insists the seller walk with him to the box office to have the ticket checked before handing over cash.
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With the country's largest exporting port in Los Angeles, the cargo may even be on another continent by the time distributors realize they've been scammed.
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On its quest to make a "better keyboard," Keyboardio raised more than $23,000 — then found itself scammed out of $100,000, according to the company's founders.
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And yet, he says he got scammed on his very own home turf recently, when trying to visit the Statue of Liberty with his family.
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CID said there have been hundreds of claims each month from people who said they've been scammed on legitimate dating apps and social media sites.
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They are now actively targeting Instagrammers specifically and AS I TYPE THIS - THERE ARE STILL people flying to Jakarta and in Jakarta being actively scammed!
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Pindrop helps businesses avoid getting scammed on the phone by analyzing both the audio of a call and the metadata it has about a caller.
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And so, he hid in college, scammed and screamed until they let him into the Hall of Fame, and will likely die on his sword.
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Nobody scammed me into not reading, I just don't like to read, and when I'm buying underwear at work I have to do things quickly.
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Karen Nowack, 61, a Niners fan since childhood, said she was determined to attend the game even after getting scammed by another ticket provider twice.
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And while many believe millennials killed talking on the phone because we fear real connection, maybe it's because we are too scared of getting scammed.
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If you find out later you've been scammed for money, the chances that you'll get the money back that was on the card are slim.
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Four "robocalling" companies, including an operation that allegedly scammed businesses by pretending to be Google, have shut down and settled lawsuits with the Federal Trade Commission.
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However, the decision to sidestep the easiest and most trusted way to download Android apps has also opened up Fortnite fans to getting scammed or exploited.
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Instead, he scammed his way into the Manhattan social scene, wielding the same signifiers of wealth — the Ivy League schools, the model wives, the conspicuous consumption.
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One of these videos, with 25,000 views — "I GOT SCAMMED BY JAKE PAUL || EDFLUENCE" complains that after paying the $7, you don't get the full experience.
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Others including engineering companies and mortgage brokers have been charged with fraud in New York after authorities say they scammed federal loan programs after the storm.
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And free meals weren't the only thing Gonzales allegedly scammed—he has been accused of skipping out on paying a hair salon after an appointment, too.
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It was an interesting move that seemed in line with the sneaky spirit of what authorities describe as a fraudulent festival that scammed and endangered thousands.
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That's how many people just in the U.S. who've been scammed out of their life savings after falling for letters from a psychic named Maria Duval.
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Kickstarter actively encouraged Harris to interview and include its own executives, and CEO Yancey Strickler offered up his condolences to backers who felt they were scammed.
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The Better Business Bureau has some tips to avoid being scammed by these fake coupons you might see online: Checking out who is offering the coupon.
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Still it has said it will help those who were scammed to get their money back, as Zyskind wrote on Medium: So we are taking responsibility.
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Please share and spread awareness about this - from my research it looks like about hundred Instagrammers have been scammed so far in the past couple months!
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Here's the deal ... authorities in Monroe County, PA say former NFL 1st-round pick Hayden Hurst contacted them last month to report he had been scammed.
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Lee Jaewon, a not-quite-orphan from the slums of Neo Seoul, has scammed his way into a prestigious high school, hoping for an easier life.
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At the same time that we were deeply ashamed at having been stuck with such a lousy team — how could baseball have scammed us like this?
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Either out of an abundance of caution, or an uptick of users being scammed through their service, MailChimp seems to have washed their hands the whole thing.
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I've talked with two Switch owners who were scammed while purchasing a code on Gameflip, an online marketplace where anyone can sell codes and other digital items.
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The news that Wells Fargo employees opened thousands of unauthorized bank and credit card accounts for existing customers may make you wonder if you got scammed, too.
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The settlement covers a wide range of potential victims; anyone who got scammed between January 1st, 2004 and January 19th, 2017 is eligible to submit a claim.
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From the IRS's own data, fraudsters scammed the agency out of at least $1.6 billion in tax refunds during the 2016 tax season that belonged to taxpayers.
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This service will provide specialist one-on-one help to those worried they're being scammed or who have already lost money as a result of fake ads.
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Sean*: It's also pretty annoying when customers accuse you of ripping them off, like we are purposely keeping the 0.1 gram you think we scammed from you.
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"Screenshot: TwitterThe desire to spend real money to get fake scammed is less surprising if you're familiar with a fetish lifestyle called "findom," short for "financial domination.
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Founder and CEO of 5miles, Lucas Lu, told CNBC that he developed the concept after being scammed by sellers on other online marketplaces while in graduate school.
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"It won't protect you from going to a malicious website where you could download malware or get scammed," says Gary Davis, chief consumer security evangelist at McAfee.
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Also in 2017, Canadian authorities fined a Quebec man and sentenced him to jail after his cryptocurrency startup PlexCoin scammed ICO investors out of nearly $15 million.
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"Several sellers in the forum at the time appreciated the fact that buyers complaining about getting scammed was bad for the business of all sellers," recalls Serena.
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It had no apparent effect, and both patients, who paid from $15,000 to $20,000 out of pocket for the treatment, wound up feeling they had been scammed.
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Every year, students get scammed into borrowing money to pay tuition at fraudulent for-profit schools that mischaracterize their academic offerings, close abruptly or issue worthless credits.
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Instead, it's about how systems designed for public participation in the government are so easily scammed and what the challenges are for preventing such scams from happening.
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The self-described "auto-airhead" said getting an oil change would always turn into something more expensive, and she never could tell if she was getting scammed.
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"If you are aware of the scam, if you learn about it from listening to the news, you are 80% less likely to be scammed," she said.
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The movie is based on the 2015 New York magazine article on a group of New York strippers who scammed men out of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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Comedian Dave Chappelle hand-delivered tickets to a North Carolina couple who were scammed out out hundreds of dollars trying to buy tickets for his show on Craigslist.
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Denny says he's so inundated with Facebook messages from women who've been scammed by someone using his photos that he's created responses he cuts and pastes into messages.
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During an interview on "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon," Chopra said that she "may have gotten a little scammed" into talking about her outfit for the event.
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"As of now yes we got scammed, time will tell if it was a good investment or not," a forum participant identified as cryptoviagra wrote on June 25.
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Exposto claimed she had no knowledge of the drugs in her bag and had been scammed by a boyfriend she met online, according to CNN affiliate, SBS News.
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Buyers as well often get scammed when trying to make deals on big public forums, says Serena, a former used-panty seller who has run PantyTrust since 2007.
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She has refused to give me power of attorney so that I can deal with financial institutions when she has been scammed or has neglected to pay bills.
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In March 2000, the FBI got a tip that one of the "winners" from back in 1996, William Fisher, wasn't a true winner and that he scammed McDonald's.
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"Congress should help taxpayers focus on getting their taxes done without also having to worry about getting scammed, whether it's by ID theft or unscrupulous preparers," they said.
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His bill takes direct aim at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which has returned over $11 billion to more than 25 million Americans scammed by their financial companies.
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She called me back almost immediately, saying that she had gotten scammed by Becky and Andrew earlier this year and had been unable to stop thinking about it since.
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As The New York Times reported last week, even fake Mark Zuckerbergs and Sheryl Sandbergs have popped up on Facebook and scammed unsuspecting users out of thousands of dollars.
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Read These Stories Next:The Dark History Of Celebrity Photo Hacks How Would-Be Models Are Being Scammed Into Sharing Nude Photos Paris Hilton Announces Engagement To Her "Best Friend"
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"I told him on the email, I said, I'm just a little bit leery of this kind of transaction because I've heard of other people getting scammed," Dowden said.
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Since Kobe beef costs more than $20 an ounce, if you're purchasing something that is supposedly made of Kobe beef and isn't absurdly expensive, you're probably being scammed. 2.
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"He is trying to scam America the way he scammed all those people at Trump University," Clinton said Wednesday, referring to the growing scrutiny surrounding Trump's namesake training programs.
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Below is a diagram that shows how this scam works, based on what's in the indictment: The people who are scammed out of money are certainly the primary victims.
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Even if someone were to tell you at that point, 'Hey, I think you're getting scammed,' you would probably say, 'You just don't want to be happy for me.
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Mr. Stumpf also deflected questions about Wells Fargo's practice of requiring the scammed customers to press their claims against the bank through individual arbitration rather than suing in court.
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It made bizarre headlines for reasons good and bad, the latter of which was because a fake booker scammed the designer to pay for a nonexistent Kanye West concert.
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Trump family scammed tenants: A phony business the Trumps created to siphon wealth from their empire permanently drove up rents for thousands of their rent-stabilized New York tenants.
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Entry-level publishing salaries at the time started around $27,000, meaning that Mallory seems to have essentially scammed his way to a salary almost 10 times his base pay.
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My husband and I were obsessively meeting deadlines, and the kids were getting impatient with us, feeling that we had scammed them into a vacation with no vacation plan.
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She had just been scammed - one of at least 2000,2180 people the U.S. Justice Department says lost more than $300 million in an "enormous and complex fraud" running since 2013.
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Keeping the value of your money straight can require long-dormant arithmetic, and you can easily get scammed or ripped-off during those critical first hours in a foreign capital.
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The agency has made an effort to crack down the schemes in recent months, taking down call center operators in Florida that scammed people out of $25 million last month.
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"This is to reduce the risks of women being scammed or being a victim of human trafficking," added Patcharee, who is the director of the ministry's division of gender equality.
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Last week, TMZ reported Plein was scammed out of almost $1 million by someone pretending to be a rep for Kanye West, who promised West would perform at the show.
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"The way he sees it, he's done his time, and doesn't feel sorry for the people who were scammed, robbed, or beaten to a pulp along the way," says Grønlund.
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Investigators had traced the supposed supervisor's phone number to a Google Voice account created at Galindo's IP address and found that Stephanie was not the only woman who'd been scammed.
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Last year, people in search of true love were scammed out of $0003 million — which means love is the new, most lucrative target for consumer fraud, according to FTC data.
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"Right now, what we know of is just slightly over three-quarters of a million dollars scammed out for Super Bowl-related stuff," a Gwinnett County police spokesperson told WSTB.
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Prosecutors say that in addition to the more than $26 million he stole from Fyre investors and contractors, McFarland also scammed at least $150,000 from unwitting NYC VIP Access clients.
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Gentle Monster -- a Korean-based fashion brand known for its eyewear -- claims Yusef scammed the company out of $2.5 million by promising Kanye would create a video for the company.
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It's worth noting that after the ICO hack in July, Coindash said it would give tokens to anyone who tried to invest in the ICO even if they got scammed.
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The unraveling has been documented by its former head of marketing, who wrote about how she was "scammed," describing the internal chaos and accusing the founder, Isaac Choi, of forgery.
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He then disappeared and the woman called the police, who eventually discovered he was a criminal who had been previously incarcerated and had scammed multiple women through online dating platforms.
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"Markets react badly when they realize they were scammed," Fernandez said earlier on Monday, adding that Argentina lives in a "fictitious economy" and that Macri's government is not providing answers.
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The unidentified hedge fund that sports talk-radio star Craig Carton allegedly scammed out of $4.6 million was named "management firm of the year" in March, according to Sports Illustrated.
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The rare cars were owned by Scott Tucker, a former professional race car driver who was convicted of running a fraudulent online payday lending scheme that scammed 4.5 million people.
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If "Felix Starro" means to equate those elements with the dashed dreams of immigrants, scammed by a cynical, faith-healing America, it doesn't have the right narrative to get there.
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See how Bill Mastro turned simple pieces of cardboard into solid gold — and scammed thousands of collectors in the process — on an all new episode of "American Greed," Monday, Aug.
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These iPads have all been tested and certified to work and look like new, and all the included accessories are new, so you can trust that you're not getting scammed.
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McFarland was found guilty of multiple counts of fraud that included the Fyre Festival debacle in which he scammed his investors out of $2150 million, according to a Vice News report.
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For example, "Man of the People," starring Robert Downey Jr., and directed by Richard Linklater, is based off a "Reply All" episode about a doctor that scammed his way to fame.
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Facebook first started blocking ads promoting cryptocurrencies and initial coin offerings in January 2018 over concerns that users might be scammed by initial coin offerings offered by some crypto start-ups.
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Here's how he scammed the college admissions system: Singer founded The Key, a life coaching and college counseling business that advertised services such as test preparation and setting up campus visits.
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Pamela Anderson is accusing her ex, French soccer star Adil Rami, of "physical and emotional torture" in a scathing Instagram post in which she says she was "scammed" into the romance.
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The odds of someone handing you fake cash are pretty low, and you might get a weird look when using it, but why not eliminate another potential way of getting scammed?
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"I don't need a millionaire for a husband!" she eventually insists to Travis, on receiving the news that he plans to quit his job in order to get scammed full-time.
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For now, the beta versions of MapleStory M and MapleStory 903 are bot-free and trading between players isn't allowed yet, so there's no chance of getting scammed on a deal.
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This might sound like common sense, but in a world where more people are meeting potential partners online, it can become all too easy for otherwise intelligent people to get scammed.
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Jiang, who invested 150,000 RMB ($22,800) in Ezubo in mid-2015, just a year after the company launched, is one of more than 900,000 private investors apparently scammed by the company.
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The project, titled "Donald Trump Screwed Me," is an effort by American Bridge to share stories from current and former employees, tenants and people who have been scammed by Trump's businesses.
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After failed attempts to rectify their status, my father used what little savings he had to make monthly payments to a lawyer who was helping us — but the lawyer scammed us.
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Lil Rel Howery claims he was hustled, scammed and bamboozled by his baby mama, who he alleges led a double life -- so he's filed docs requesting sole custody of their kid.
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New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees and his wife Brittany claim they were scammed out of $2003 million over a six year period by a San Diego jeweler, reports CBS sports.
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When confronted with the possibility they could be playing on hacked accounts, they played it off, and said they were more worried about getting scammed by losing access to the games.
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"The FCC's decision to go ahead with the vote makes a mockery of government integrity and rewards the very perpetrators who scammed the system to advance their own agenda," Schneiderman said.
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I think a lot of what's at work there is that foundations are understandably risk-averse, concerned with their own reputation, with avoiding disastrously bad grants, and with not getting scammed.
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Anna Delvey became the subject of widespread fascination in April 2018 with the publication of a Vanity Fair piece written by a woman whom Sorokin had allegedly scammed out of $62,000.
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If you love going to concerts, games and other events — and don't enjoy getting scammed — some credit cards let you get tickets safely and before they're available to the general public.
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A U.S. law enforcement official who was not authorized to discuss the case publicly but agreed to speak on the condition of anonymity said Muth had been getting scammed since 2010.
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The student loan ombudsman is supposed to make sure that students who have taken on debt to pay for their education aren't being scammed or abused by banks or loan servicers.
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Shkreli is currently free on bond on charges of defrauding the pharmaceutical company he previously headed, Retrophin, for the alleged purpose of repaying investors he had scammed while operating hedge funds earlier.
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"I feel the Donald Trump school scammed good and honest people in believing the school would help them in the Real Estate business," one of the complaints filed with the FTC said.
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The 45-year-old comedian took it upon himself to give four fans tickets to his show in Charlotte on Valentine's Day after they had been scammed out of hundreds of dollars.
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"Student loan debt is exploding, more students are getting scammed, and Mick Mulvaney wants to shut down the only federal office fully focused on protecting student borrowers," she said in a statement.
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In lieu of details about compensation or even a vague sense of embarrassment, theirs was a sprawling, Trumpian response in which they claimed it was "NOT the case" that we'd been scammed.
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When doing the research for this book for five years, I found that millennials actually got scammed more than seniors, but seniors lost a lot more money because they have more money.
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She suggested meeting with several loan companies before choosing one — she said she nearly got scammed into a bad loan without realizing it because it was the first person she met with.
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Last year, police in Mint Hill, North Carolina, tried to trick drug consumers into coming to cops to get their drugs properly weighed, so as not to be scammed by their dealers.
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Rajbir Singh, the owner and driver of Roseville Cab in Roseville, California, saved a 92-year-old woman from being scammed out of $25,000 by a man posing as an IRS employee.
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The idea that men deserved to be scammed is one that pops up repeatedly in this gender-swapped remake of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, the classic 1988 comedy starring Steve Martin and Michael Caine.
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In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, fraudulent contractors scammed New Yorkers, providing shoddy work to people with flooded homes, or asking for payment up front and skipping town before the job was done.
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And as word gets around that Zelle and the banks are not helping people who were scammed, it will ultimately damage Zelle's reputation and send users back to PayPal, where buyer protections exist.
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Drew Brees claims he was scammed out of MILLIONS by a jeweler who sold him an $8 MILLION diamond ring ... but the jeweler is saying Brees has no one to blame but himself.
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Insider has previously documented some of the better-known side effects to winning the lottery, which include being scammed, getting taken advantage of by friends and family, receiving unwanted public attention, and overspending.
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The Justice Department has sentenced 21 members of an India-based telephone fraud operation who scammed Americans and generated hundreds of millions of dollars by posing as Internal Revenue Service and immigration officials.
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Lopez, 50, was nominated for the best supporting female award for Hustlers, in which she plays the leader of a group of strippers who scammed high-rolling men out of thousands of dollars.
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If you are being scammed, running an online search for the message you've got or the steps you're being asked to take will usually turn up posts for people who've had similar communications.
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One of the largest recent instances of fraud involved real-estate investment firm The Woodbridge Group of Companies, which scammed 8,400 retail investors in a $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme that collapsed in 2017.
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Read more: Fyre Fest attendees are worried they're getting scammed again Instead, they found soggy FEMA-style tents arranged around a gravel development pit with none of the amenities they had paid for.
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Anna Sorokin, who scammed her way into Manhattan high society by posing as a German heiress named Anna Delvey, was sentenced to four to 12 years in prison, Judge Diane Kiesel announced on Thursday.
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" Consumers are beginning to feel "scammed and cheated," the nonprofit Center for Inquiry argued, in a lawsuit filed last month against Walmart and CVS over the sale of what it called "homeopathic fake medicine.
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After a Mexico-based man scammed many people out of money, his victims decided to band together and ruin his reputation by offering his photo up as a victim of many recent terrorist attacks.
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Young and Garvin, along with Amy Rubin, an attorney who was the third constant member of the investigation team, were starting to see where the calls ended up and how people were getting scammed.
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Over the course of 253 months reporting this story, 25 public hospital physicians practicing in 15 Chinese cities said that patients scammed by private clinics and hospitals often end up in their waiting rooms.
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The 2500-hour trip started off well, but Kimmel&aposs fortunes changed when he "hit some bars," where he claimed he got scammed, had his passport confiscated, and ended up in a jail cell.
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SEC chair Jay Clayton Tuesday will address Congress to say his organization is not attempting to stifle the innovation associated with bitcoin and blockchain, but is attempting to make sure investors don't get scammed.
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This is huge because it sets limits on what people expect to take place during the call, while also calming people who might understandably be concerned about being scammed, tricked or otherwise taken advantage of.
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She also said she has no qualms about her association with the woman whom prosecutors say scammed financial institutions, hotels, and everyday people out of tens of thousands of dollars at a time in 2016.
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She Got Scammed As A Child Nwodim told Elder that as a pre-teen she loved performing and wanted to be on the Disney Channel, but didn't know how to make that happen from Baltimore.
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A few weeks ago, the Justice Department announced that it had arrested a Lithuanian man in connection with a phishing attack that scammed two unnamed US tech companies out of a total of $100 million.
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Dave Appleton, a blockchain developer for HelloGold, a gold trading app company in Kuala Lumpur, said he lost about $3,000 of ether coins when scammed by a fake site touting a startup's token pre-sale.
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Unsurprisingly, none of the carriers were willing to cite specific examples of having been directly scammed, and insisted they do their best to verify the identities of law enforcement before handing over personal location data.
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"If you buy a puppy online, you run a very real risk of getting scammed," John Goodwin, senior director of the Stop Puppy Mills campaign at the Humane Society of the United States, tells PEOPLE.
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There was the time Anna Delvey scammed her way through NYC, the monumental shitshow that was Fyre Festival, and that incredible Tinder con, to name a few of the most glorious scams in recent memory.
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Since this spring, the "Scammed" Facebook page has been encouraging visitors to spread the word and file claims with the FTC and BBB; it's sharing tips on how to get your bank to assist you.
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Kethledge has ruled in many fraud cases, including a notable decision last May when the court upheld a $112 million judgment against a Ponzi scheme dealer who scammed victims into buying fraudulent Saudi oil investments.
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Leiser and other unwitting guests feel scammed, but if they had listened to a few episodes of The Top Entrepreneurs show, they would have quickly realized that Latka uses the interviews to dig for data.
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Hours later, another solo traveler, Megan, who also claimed she was scammed and jailed, posted his bail, and accompanied Kimmel to the airport while he figured out a way back to LA without a passport.
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"I could not believe it at first, I thought I was being scammed," said Kim Hyun-sook, 91, describing her shock when her daughter and granddaughter in North Korea asked to meet her in 2015.
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In particular, the Delvey case (in which the supposed German heiress swindled people close to her out of money) was one that reflected a lot of our feelings about class and who "deserves" to get scammed.
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Rella Herman, a 93-year-old Holocaust survivor, and her husband Leonard, 91, have been left reeling since they were scammed by their certified nursing assistant, according to a GoFundMePage starting by their grandson, Micah Herman.
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However, they now claim Singer scammed them into thinking that large sum was simply a donation to the school (in other words, they thought they were taking the so-called "back door" route, which is legal).
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Multiple people detailed the so-called "vomit fraud" to the Herald—which often comes along with photos of fake puke as "proof"—with Miami resident William Kennedy claiming he was once scammed twice in one night.
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The Department of Justice is digging in its heels against UnitedHealth Group, alleging in a second lawsuit the health insurance giant has knowingly scammed the government by inflating the medical codes of its Medicare Advantage members.
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I finally canceled it a week ago — more than a year since getting scammed out of $18 worth of margaritas and chips — and let it go, because I figured I'd never see the person again, anyway.
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He's saying government is part of a big conspiracy, that we're all being scammed, that if you look at the food pyramid it's all about meat and dairy, but it's printed by the National Dairy Council.
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To make sure no one thinks they're getting scammed, Compound is also releasing a transparency dashboard users can view to check up on all the assets moving through the protocol and see what Compound is earning.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Cryptocurrencies stolen from exchanges and scammed from investors surged more than 1.73 percent in 21.7 to around $23 billion, according to a report from U.S.-based cyber security firm CipherTrace released on Tuesday.
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Read more: 'You're starting to sound like a fraud': A former Vanity Fair editor who says she was scammed by Anna Delvey testified against the fake heiressWilliams had no intention of showing up to the appointment.
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A man posing as ex-MLB star Tim Lincecum scammed a Baltimore Ravens player out of autographed gear ... and he almost got away with it if it weren't for the NFLer's agent -- this according to cops.
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Only 500 of the company's "Launch Edition" scooters are available to be shipped, and only in the US. Apparently, a number of people got scammed in the interim between the scooter's first appearance online and now.
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Most of those who have contacted her have actual fund-raising needs but have been scammed by third parties—users who set up unauthorized campaigns in other people's names and then make off with the money.
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An FBI investigation dubbed "Operation Varsity Blues" relied on wiretapped conversations to expose dozens of wealthy parents — including famous actresses and wealthy executives — who allegedly scammed their kids into elite colleges like USC, Yale, and Georgetown University.
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"[At the farmers' market,] I never feel like I'm being scammed by some crazy label with a million chemicals I don't recognize," says a 28-year-old customer, eyeing loaves of fresh bread under a nearby stand.
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Trump has claimed without evidence that the Bidens are corrupt -- publicly saying the leaders of Ukraine and China should investigate his potential 2020 opponent -- and on Sunday baselessly tweeted that Hunter Biden "raided and scammed" multiple countries.
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The fake puppies on these sites are sold for less compared with real breeders, and Baker estimates people lose anywhere between $100 and $1000 on a regular basis, though some are scammed out of even more cash.
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Senator Sinema asked if an Arizonan was scammed out of their Libra by a Pakistani developer via a Thai exchange and a Spanish wallet, would that U.S. citizen be entitled to protection to recuperate their lost funds.
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"We believe the developers were scammed to use this malicious SDK, unaware of its content, leading to the fact that this campaign was not targeting a specific county or developed by the same developer," the company said.
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Their story caught Dave's attention after it was reported Wednesday that the woman, Deidra Dickens, thought she had purchased tickets to his V-Day show for her and her husband -- a huge Chappelle fan -- but got scammed.
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"Trump will just have been a joke presidency who scammed the American people, amused the populists for a while, but he'll have no legacy whatsoever," she said in a podcast interview with The Daily Caller on Dec.
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Her trial, in New York's Supreme Court, was a short walk away from the nightclubs she and Williams once frequented, the infrared saunas where they sat and listen to music, and SoHo hotels Delvey had once scammed.
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But Kristine Barnett says they were scammed in a situation eerily similar to the plot of the horror movie "Orphan," in which a mentally disturbed adult poses as an orphan who's taken in by a vulnerable family.
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Some rushed mornings before work require a to-go smoothie for breakfast instead of sitting down with toast, and some weeknight evenings require a batch of guac all to yourself because Chipotle scammed you earlier that day.
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If the scam economy had an id, it would be Joanne, surviving in a scam-or-be-scammed world, fighting fraud with fraud: The odds are stacked against her, but she gives as bad as she gets.
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Mark D'Amico, the New Jersey man who scammed well-meaning GoFundMe donors out of more than $400,000 after concocting a fake feel-good story involving a homeless veteran, has pleaded guilty to a state charge against him.
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More than 43 percent of renters have found listings that seem fraudulent, and more than 5 million have been scammed, often losing thousands of dollars, according to a new report from Apartment List, a rental listing website.
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Driving the news: Dessa, the AI company behind the hyper-convincing fake Joe Rogan voice from earlier this summer, published a tool today for detecting deepfake audio — the kind that recently scammed a CEO out of $240,000.
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She dated abusive men, finished last in fitness pageants, spent hours staring in the mirror and obsessing about her jutting jaw, got scammed out of a bodybuilding trophy, and couldn't even complete her stint in the Peace Corps.
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"My bank, Wells Fargo, as well as the other bank using the Zelle system, Bank of America, were not able or willing to do anything after I was scammed," the victim (who prefered to remain anonymous), told us.
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Last month, the Department of Justice charged a Lithuanian man for fraud, aggravated identity theft, and money laundering after documents revealed he scammed two major tech companies for over $100 million by masquerading as a Taiwanese electronics manufacturer.
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Fans Scammed Out Of Millions Of Dollars By Fake Celebrity Accounts This poor woman (named Mary!) sent $11,500 to a person she thought was Bruce Springsteen, who had reached out to her on Facebook using a fake account.
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I'd receive frantic emails from users claiming that they sent money to a person whom they haven't heard back from, and there would be nothing I could do except ban the account and IP address that scammed them.
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But Kristine Barnett says her family was scammed in a situation eerily similar to the plot of the horror movie "Orphan," in which a mentally disturbed adult poses as an orphan who's taken in by a vulnerable family.
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In February, the agency filed a lawsuit against RD Legal Funding LLC, alleging that the lawsuit lender had scammed 9/11 responders by paying high-cost advances on settlement payouts and lying about the terms of the advances.
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On eating watermelon in front of white people: "I'm not as free as I thought" How not to get scammed, according to a former con artist Dave Chappelle's Netflix special targets Michael Jackson's accusers, #MeToo, and cancel culture
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She said she scammed to supplement her income while working day jobs at Whole Foods and Burger King; meanwhile, she portrayed a far glitzier lifestyle on Instagram as she and her bandmate Yung Miami pursued a music career.
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We reached out to Drew's attorney, Andrew Kim, for comment who told us the new price tag may not reflect the true value of the diamond -- and doesn't take away from the fact Drew feels scammed by Moradi.
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Two Democratic U.S. senators called for the Federal Trade Commission to act on a complaint filed by consumer groups against Facebook Inc on Thursday that alleged the company scammed children into spending money on its platform.
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Gomperts tells me that Women on Web were scammed a decade ago when attempting to purchase abortion medication from a now-defunct website, and even points me towards a fake Polish mirror of the actual Women on Web site.
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On Facebook pages and Reddit threads, buyers and sellers often call out people who have scammed them, by either not paying what they owe a seller or not turning over the login information for an account to a buyer.
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But then again, since the whole point of this exercise was to distance myself from banks I'd heard of (either because they helped cause the financial crisis or scammed customers or both), I tried to keep an open mind.
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Social media makes it easy for criminals to create a false air of trust, and by the time the buyer realizes they've been scammed, it's too late: the money has gone through several accounts and the trail is lost.
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"A good example is the borrower defense rule that just plainly offered debt relief to people who were completed scammed by fraudulent education companies and this administration completely hamstrung the program until borrowers took them to court," he said.
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Baker, who now runs a website and newsletter about frauds targeting older consumers, also said it's common for older adults who've been scammed to genuinely not realize they've been ripped off, which makes it even easier on the crooks.
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Over the course of the piece, Parker uncovers compelling evidence to suggest that Mallory essentially scammed his way to the top of his field, scattering lies willy-nilly about his tragic past, his glamorous education, and his failing health.
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After all, the Bezos attack came from a video file that was shared through social media, and Corcoran was almost scammed out of hundreds of thousands of dollars because a thief was able to spoof her assistant's email address.
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"I was scammed because I believed in Donald Trump and please don't fall for the same line I fell for," former student Bob Guillo, a retired legal-document processor who says he paid $35,000 in fees to the university.
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This Man Was Scammed By A Fake Sugar Daddy On Grindr — But He Can't Report The Identity Theft Because Of The Government Shutdown Here's more Grindr drama: a guy pretending to be a sugar daddy scamming men out of their savings.
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Specifically, the feds alleged Sides scammed Amazon out of about $230,22.5 worth of electronics—including gaming consoles, accessories and a GoPro camera—by using false names with corresponding email addresses, altered street addresses for the deliveries, and unnamed co-conspirators.
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A homeless veteran and a New Jersey woman who scammed well-meaning GoFundMe donors out of more than $400,000 with a fake feel-good story pleaded guilty Wednesday to conspiracy and money laundering charges in federal court, multiple outlets report.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 21 (Reuters) - Two Democratic U.S. senators called for the Federal Trade Commission to act on a complaint filed by consumer groups against Facebook on Thursday that alleged the company scammed children into spending money on its platform.
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As regards Casa, U.K. internet users who think they have been, or are being, scammed online — either by ads or other methods — can now call the service on 0300 903 3003 for one-on-one help, or access http://www.citizensadvice.org.
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A Lebanese couple who immigrated got scammed by a seeming good Samaritan who offered to marry their young adult son when he got cancer and provide health insurance — only to attempt to seize all his assets when that son passed away.
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They're in the mood to do some drugs, but there's a problem: They haven't brought any with them on the trip, they don't know any dealers in Berlin, and they don't want to be scammed by a shady street dealer.
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I'm not proud of the things I did, but my story, which is depicted in my 1980 memoir, "Catch Me If You Can," gave me the opportunity to educate people of all ages on how to prevent themselves from getting scammed.
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After investigating that scheme, authorities say they learned members of the group, which spanned Europe, Israel and the United States, had also scammed unnamed German and Portuguese companies out of millions of dollars in phony transactions in 2014 and 2015.
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There's no chance of spending hundreds or thousands of dollars only to never hear from the seller again or to receive a counterfeit item in return (granted, there are protections for that, but it doesn't make getting scammed any less frustrating).
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We were shocked to find that people would pay the equivalent of our monthly mortgage per night for a three-night stay — but we didn't get off to a great start when our first guests scammed us with a bad check.
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The gist of the accusations are that Awan and several family members scammed Congress — making millions of dollars in salary every year, often getting paid without doing work, stealing IT equipment, and ultimately hacking congressional emails and stealing congressional data.
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While I managed to make a little money here and there, I also got scammed by a man who told me he wanted me to "rinse him," and after an entire shopping session over Skype, his credit card was later declined.
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"AT&T baited subscribers with promises of unlimited data, trapped them in multi-year contracts with punishing termination fees, and then scammed them by choking off their access unless they moved to a more expensive plan," Chopra said in a statement.
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In the end, however, whether buying and selling used cars without being scammed out of your money is a pain point of tomorrow, these apps make it easier to be sure that today's used car transactions are more transparent and bias-free.
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So I think it's the first real estate experience in New York where I didn't feel like I was getting scammed or ripped off or being treated in the typical way that you would be treated while renting an apartment in New York.
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Couple Who Scammed Amazon Out of $1.2 Million in Electronics Sentenced to Nearly Six Years in Prison Photo: Alex Wong (Getty Images)Back in October, Gizmodo reported that an Indiana couple had been charged for relieving $1.2 million worth of merchandise from Amazon.
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"I more often hear from people who call on behalf of a relative or friend who is getting scammed," said Chris Grey, director of public affairs for the Army's Criminal Investigation Command who learned quickly not to contact the victim in these cases.
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The Times also details some of the ways McFarland scammed his way through Fyre's organization: the criminal complaint revealed that the faked documents purported McFarland's ownership stake in his company was $2.5 million, when the actual value of his shares were $1,500.
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But the lady grifter who is most of the moment is probably Anna Delvey (whose real name is Anna Sorokin), the woman who posed as a German heiress and scammed the people close to her out of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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The then Ohio attorney general was seen as a less polarizing alternative to Warren, but he nevertheless waged war on predatory lenders and other shady financial players, winning almost $12 billion in relief for consumers over-charged or scammed by financial companies.
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Taking a page from the 2012 Obama playbook against Mitt Romney — who began making a late but forceful case against Trump in March — American Future Fund found Americans who told stories about being scammed by Trump as they looked directly at the camera.
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The boxes are about as far from the action as the parking lot is, so unless you really like watching what looks like a bunch of oddly tall ants beating the shit out of an orange flea, you are getting scammed, buddy.
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Because legislators in Ontario decided that existing laws against scalping were too ineffective—the province successfully prosecutes only about 25 cases per year—and that it's more worthwhile to instead enact more enforceable laws that regulate reselling and keep buyers from getting scammed.
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These details are only worth noting because Anna Sorokin is on trial for crimes she allegedly committed while posing as a German heiress — she grifted her way into New York society, the accusations go, and scammed banks and hotels along the way.
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Authorities recently busted a counterfeiting operation that shipped $470 million worth of fake Nikes to the US."You have a sense of betrayal when you buy something and you're scammed off of it," Entrupy cofounder and CEO Vidyuth Srinivasan told Business Insider.
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But when he is scammed by a man he thought was his soulmate (played by the devastatingly handsome Josh Seggara), he packs his alter ego in the back of an old RV and sets out on a tour with hopes of starting fresh.
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Prosecutors claim that Shkreli scammed multiple investors in his MSMB hedge funds by lying about the poor performance of those funds, and by refusing to give back the money they believed they had in the funds when they asked him to do so.
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The lawsuits, filed by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and a law firm in California, alleged that the for-profit school had scammed customers into taking expensive classes that were run by people who had little to no connection to Trump himself.
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The drama surrounding Lori Loughlin and the slew of other high-profile parents who allegedly scammed their kids' way into college is truly bananas, but it's made all the wilder when you look at the very public quotes uttered by Loughlin prior to her arrest.
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In her lengthy review for Fashionista, writer Alexandra Mondalek said she felt "hustled, scammed and bamboozled into believing Kanye West would perform" at Plein's "dinner show event" and thought the entire Fall 2019 collection was "more disappointing" than the entire "disorganized black tie dinner" itself.
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But horror stories abound from users who have bought cracked bots and have been scammed: For instance, Reddit user WhatManOn wrote that after used a cracked bot, they ended up with fraudulent charges on their bank account and started receiving tons of spam emails.
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And then the actual construction of the story, the way you wrote it, where you start with the concierge and you sort of pull back the camera, and you meet more people who are being scammed, but you're not spelling out that it's a scam.
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"Met a crazy girl in a hotel room in Long Island City [in the New York City borough of Queens] and had a feeling I may have been getting scammed—like her boyfriend would come and beat the shit out of me," he said.
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An email from Leesie Mappes, Twin Flames' CEO and "senior executive minister" with the group's new church, claims VICE was "scammed" into publishing false accounts by a former student with an agenda to destroy Twin Flames for the benefit of a rival spiritual coaching business.
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Even L.L. Bean, the Maine-based outdoor gear brand generally considered to be on the greener and more sustainable end of the spectrum, changed its famous no-receipt needed lifetime return policy, not to save the polar bears but to save itself from being scammed.
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One of the central preoccupations for most of the characters in The Locals is that they've been scammed in some way, that someone took their money, or someone is shirking their family duties and leaving this one person to take care of the elderly parent.
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Behshad Sheldon, CEO of Braeburn Pharmaceuticals, said the relatively low percentage of authorized doctors writing prescriptions for buprenorphine reflects the fact that many physicians "don't like the idea of diversions" and their worry about getting scammed by patients who might sell the medication on the black market.
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And that's at least a small part of why we're so baffled by the bullshit, even when we're not the ones getting scammed: When it seems like the system we're in doesn't work anymore, there's some excitement in trying (and even failing) to cheat that system.
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Zelle, the standalone Venmo-like payments app founded by major banks, is still relatively new to the game, and its users — much like Venmo users before them — are unfortunately learning now that it's easy to get scammed through the app, according to a report from TechCrunch.
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You don't have to be an experienced coder to set these botnets up, either; you just need a little cash, the ability to Google 'botnet services' (or better yet, poke around on the dark web for them), and an openness to getting scammed here and there.
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The advisory, which CBC obtained under the Access to Information Act [Similar to the Freedom of Information ACT], said seniors are being scammed online and in some cases losing "substantial money" to traffickers, who then coerce them into smuggling drugs as a means of recovering their cash.
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He trains himself not to say "cool," because it's improper; when he makes small talk, he asks about people's interests because asking about their professions is gauche; he lets himself get scammed by a sketchy guy at a gas station because he doesn't want to be rude.
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Read more: Fyre Festival attendees worry they're getting scammed again But the organizers behind Burning Man — which practices under a principle of "decommodification," even going so far as to encourage attendees to "cover logos" on their belongings — say what Tribble is offering is just not possible.
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Photo: Gabe Ginsberg (Getty)Surely you haven't forgotten about Fyre Festival, the event that scammed models, the rich, and many Bahamian vendors into believing it would be one of the greatest events of the decade—headlined by Blink 182 for god's sake—before it all came crashing down.
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"Dear Matthew can you get a message to scoot cooper you are on his advisory board but what you don't know is how many people were scammed by him and how fraudulent they are and how much money they robbed from people," one person wrote to Whitaker in 2016.
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The big picture: While serving as acting general counsel under Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, Menashi helped craft a plan to use private Social Security earnings data to deny debt relief to people who had been scammed by for-profit colleges, according to reporting by the New York Times.
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While the food was infinitely better than the looks that were served, dessert was by far the tastiest: Plein critics snacked on a bit of schadenfreude after news broke that the NYC billionaire got scammed out of nearly $1 million while trying to book Kanye West to perform at Plein's function.
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Instead, cable news talks about entitled millennials who definitely aren't helping our case—like that 30-year-old dude whose parents literally had to evict him, or the Instagram influencer who scammed her followers into buying "creativity workshops," or basically every single person who bought a ticket to Fyre Festival.
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The infamous Fyre Festival, founded by convicted fraudster Billy McFarland, presented an obvious story to dig into that viewers would eat up: what was touted as a luxury music festival scammed prospective festival-goers out of thousands of dollars and left them stranded on a secluded island in the Bahamas.
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The Netflix project will adapt New York Magazine's story on Delvey, also known as the "SoHo Grifter," Anna Sorokin was a con artist who scammed banks and businesses throughout the New York social scene for years by claiming to be a wealthy German heiress under the fake name Anna Delvey.
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"What you don't know is how many people were scammed by him (Chief Executive Scott Cooper) and how fraudulent they are and how much money they robbed from people," wrote the person whose email was disclosed along with more than 300 pages of other materials released by the Federal Trade Commission.
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Read more: Fyre Festival attendees worry they're getting scammed again The offer was just one of a dozen-odd deals sent since December to attendees of the Fyre Festival, the two-day concert festival that imploded last spring, with at least six Fyre Fest attendees saying they were inundated with them.
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The topic of many of the requests for help in Community Help are fairly basic — how to unfriend people, how to see a post, an issue with a photo tag, and so on — indicating that the users are likely inexperienced internet users and, as such, most at risk of being scammed.
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The Indian police have uncovered a chain of fake call centres in Mumbai and arrested 70 people who posed as officials of U.S. tax department and scammed thousands of Americans.. The fraudsters ran fake call centres and sent threatening voice mail messages telling the U.S. citizens that they owed tax and must respond.
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Fortunately, the steady pace of disclosures from the civil case against Trump University—including testimony from Trump employees who say his business-education program scammed the vulnerable out of tens of thousands of dollars a head—provides Democrats a way to repurpose the Romney strategy against a very different kind of foe.
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Cai Jiaxiang, a serial scammer who has been in and out of jail for a decade according to Today, scammed potential buyers by promising to sell them iPhone 7 Plus phones if they paid an upfront deposit of S$100 - S$400 ($70 - $280) on Carousell, an online consumer-to-consumer marketplace.
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One Eats Everything super fan scammed his way into free guest list for life from the DJ. In a video the producer posted to his Facebook page, a man only identified as Zac walked to the front of the line of an Eats Everything show and pretended to be part of the press.
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In 280, Gignac traveled to Hawaii, where he pretended to be a prince and scammed tourists out of nearly $2000,22019 to cover his stay at a luxurious resort by falsely claiming he could offer them a stake in an oil field in Saudi Arabia, according to Vanity Fair, which cites court documents.
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The Cut continued to track other grifters: an assistant at Vogue accused of stealing more than $50,000 from her boss; a British woman who allegedly tried to make off with a yacht docked at a resort on the Italian Riviera; a "meta-scammer" who attempted to scam the man who scammed her.
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Photo: APNew York officials announced the conviction and sentencing of Nevada-based Sungame Corporation and its CEO Neil Chandran for grand larceny and securities fraud, saying the fraudsters would be forced to pay up $2.8 million to redress hundreds of people the company scammed with promises of free 3D tablets or go to jail.
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And ever since the massive spike in bitcoin prices around summer 103, much has been said about the magic that is blockchain, but much has also been written about crypto exchanges getting hacked, millions of dollars going to waste and innocent people getting scammed, all thanks to the privacy and anonymity of the technology.
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From the half a billion dollars worth of art stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum to the time an Irish assassin scammed his way into stealing the crown jewels at the Tower of London, none of history's memorable getaways quite compare to the hungry thief in Georgia who got away with a trailer full of ramen noodles.
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The film, based on a semi-famous Craigslist ad from 2013, of all things, follows two guys (Adam Devine and Zac Efron) who post an ad seeking respectable women to accompany them to their sister's wedding in Hawaii, then are scammed by two opportunistic young women (Anna Kendrick and Aubrey Plaza) who just want a vacation.
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" It also comes on the same day Clinton, his likely general election opponent, is delivering a speech ripping into his qualifications on foreign policy and has augmented her argument against Trump in recent days by attacking him as a "fraud" and a "con" for "trying to scam America the way he scammed all those people at Trump University.
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An upcoming six-part HBO documentary is telling the absolutely bonkers story of a former police officer-turned-corporate security auditor who scammed more than $24 million worth of cash and prizes out of McDonald's—and he's almost certainly the reason why your uncle never got that one piece he needed to win big at McDonald's Monopoly.
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If you do get scammed, law enforcement is unlikely to be able to get those dollars back, retired FBI Special Agent Jerri Williams tells CNBC Make It. "When it comes to these type of frauds and schemes, in most cases, there is not going to be anybody around who will be able to investigate it," she says.
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While giving consumers choice could help drive down cost in theory, the state attorney general's office said it had received a steady stream of complaints from customers who say they have been scammed by companies offering discounted rates up front only to later charge more than what the consumers would have paid through their utility company.
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"Since all victims are Mainland Chinese and at present, it appears no Taiwanese were scammed and in addition, because these cases involve organised crime, China requested Malaysia send back all 97 victims to Mainland China to ensure smooth investigations, stolen goods are recovered, justice is administered according to the law and the legal rights of victims are upheld," Xinhua wrote in a commentary.
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Read more:A woman has been charged with pretending to be a witch and allegedly scamming a man out of $600,000A 22-year-old is accused of scamming Amazon out of nearly $370,000 by sending back boxes weighted with dirt instead of the returned productPolice say a man scammed a Georgia woman out of $80,000 after agreeing to marry her within a week of meeting on Match.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE went after CNN and MSNBC on Tuesday night, saying they "got scammed" into covering an anti-Trump rally that turned out to be organized by Russian groups.
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As I'm sure you're well-aware if you're reading this, Fyre Festival became the most celebrated case of schadenfreude in recent memory when organizers scammed a bunch of rich people into buying exorbitantly expensive tickets for what promised to be the event of a lifetime—including a private island full of luxury cabins, yacht parties, and beachside hangs with models—but actually presented attendees with depressing cheese sandwiches, soggy FEMA tents, and the unique experience of one poor dude offering to suck dick for Evian water.
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Read more: Read more:An 18-year-old US citizen born in Texas has been detained by federal immigration authorities for almost a monthShanann Watts' father says his family has been targeted online by a 'constant stream of ugly, evil insults and attacks' in the year since she was murderedA Vanity Fair photo editor who says she was scammed by 'SoHo grifter' Anna Delvey wrote a book — and it finally explains how she was caughtA woman claims she was racially profiled during her engagement at the Angry Orchard cider farm
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More from NBC News: Fake travel agent scammed people out of $400K for 'tickets to nowhere,' authorities say Female TV reporter seeks criminal charges against man who slapped her backside on camera Family of Chloe Wiegand, who died falling from cruise ship, sues Royal Caribbean "Now that we have the articles of impeachment — a vague abuse of power, obstruction of Congress — the very things the majority has done in preventing us from having the witness that could shed light on this, not opinion but fact witnesses, we need to hear from those witnesses," Gohmert said.
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