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A Ghanaian native caught perpetrating the scam revealed the tricks of the trade to ABC News Chief Investigative Correspondent Brian Ross. [1] Authentic US$100 bills are coated with a protective layer of glue, and then dipped into a solution of tincture of iodine. [2] The bill, when dried, looks and feels like black construction paper. The mass ...
The strip search phone call scam was a series of incidents, mostly occurring in rural areas of the United States, that extended over a period of at least ten years, starting in 1994. The incidents involved a man calling a restaurant or grocery store, claiming to be a police officer, and then convincing managers to conduct strip searches of ...
Jussie Smollett in 2016. On January 29, 2019, American actor Jussie Smollett approached the Chicago Police Department and reported a hate crime that he had staged earlier that morning. [1][2] He planned the fake hate crime with two Nigerian-American brothers, Abimbola and Olabinjo Osundairo, who had worked as extras on the set of television ...
Cohen said the scam started right after he lost his debit card. The next day, the Bravo host said he received an email that appeared to be from his bank’s fraud alert. “It wasn’t. Because I ...
In today’s podcast news roundup, ABC News will take listeners on the global search for one of America’s most-wanted scammers; iHeartMedia and School of Humans explore the long history of COVID ...
The FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) received more than 101,000 reports of scams and fraud against people ages 60 and older in 2023, causing seniors to lose over $3.4 billion. And those ...
t. e. Project Veritas was an American far-right [ 14 ] activist [ 15 ] group founded by James O'Keefe in 2010. [ 19 ] The group produced deceptively edited videos [ 20 ] of its undercover operations, [ 22 ] which use secret recordings [ 22 ] in an effort to discredit mainstream media organizations and progressive groups. [ 23 ][ 24 ] Project ...
The unsustainable exponential progression of a classic pyramid scheme in which every member is required to recruit six new people. To sustain the scheme, the 2.2 billion people in the 12th layer would be required to recruit 13.1 billion more people for the 13th layer, even though there are not nearly enough people in the world to achieve that.