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The Global Anti Scam Alliance annual Global State of Scam Report, stated that globally $47.8 billion was lost and the number of reported scams increased from 139 million in 2019 to 266 million in 2020.
Browning was covered in a 2021 New York Times article documenting their confrontation of a small-scale refund scam operation based in Kolkata, India.The journalist, Yudhijit Bhattacharjee, a native of Kolkata who moved to the United States, described a December 2019 scam-baiting operation by Browning, during which Browning intercepted a refund scam involving an elderly woman.
People across Lincolnshire have fallen victim to £17m worth of fraud scams over the past year. More than 4,200 reports of the crime were made in the county over the past 12 months, Action Fraud said.
An IRS impersonation scam is a class of telecommunications fraud and scam which targets American taxpayers by masquerading as Internal Revenue Service (IRS) collection officers. [1] The scammers operate by placing disturbing official-sounding calls to unsuspecting citizens, threatening them with arrest and frozen assets if thousands of dollars ...
A scam unfolding on Facebook involves posts that pose as well-known musicians' accounts. ... matter how many times you report it to Facebook that it's a scam," Zelinsky said. "It’s a fraud ...
There were numerous prior incidents in many states that followed the pattern of the fraudulent call to a McDonald's restaurant in Mount Washington, Kentucky. The majority of the calls were made to fast-food chain restaurants, but some were made to grocery stores and video rental stores.
The NSE co-location scam relates to the market manipulation at the National Stock Exchange of India, India's leading stock exchange.Allegedly select players obtained market price information ahead of the rest of the market, enabling them to front run the rest of the market, [1] [2] possibly breaching the NSE's purpose of demutualisation exchange governance and its robust transparency-based ...
The 2024 NEET-UG controversy was caused by multiple discrepancies during the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (Undergraduate) (NEET-UG). As one of India's largest exams in terms of applicant numbers, NEET-UG is the sole nationwide test for admission to undergraduate medical programs and is conducted by the National Testing Agency (NTA).