Word: scammed
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...their own for the actual building). Patrimonio Hoy attracted 42,000 new customers and is expected to turn a $1.5 million profit this year. Cemex plans to expand the program into Colombia, Venezuela, Egypt and the Philippines. Diega Chavero, 38, of Zapopan, Mexico, thought the scheme was a scam when she first heard of it, but after eight years of being unable to save enough to expand the one-room home where her family of six lived, she was willing to try anything. Four years later, she has five bedrooms. "Now I have a palace," she says. "This has changed...
...featured on the front cover of the magazine’s “Persons of the Year.” The other two whistleblowers included Cynthia Cooper, an internal auditor at WorldCom and FBI agent Coleen Rowley. While Cooper mounted an investigation that revealed the largest known bookkeeping scam in corporate history, misstating earnings by at least $3.8 million, Rowley was the one who disclosed incompetence in counterterrorism efforts before the Sept. 11 attacks...
When Dunbar was on the way up, he squandered his wealth and made loans to friends who never paid him back. The tax scam unraveled when Evelyn Alga, an assistant in the office of Dunbar's tax accountant, called the IRS and offered evidence implicating not only Dunbar but the accountant. The IRS paid Alga $41,300 for her tip. MEXICO Containing the Debt Crisis...
...Middlebury college recently released a warning to its students regarding a credit card scam claiming to represent Citibank and Visa...
Vaghar’s alleged scam involved listing her Cambridge apartment for rent on Craigslist.org, convincing interested renters to pay her the first and last month’s rent, and then at the last minute making up sob stories—such as the death or sickness of one of her parents—to back out of the deal. The scam left victims struggling for months with a trail of excuses and bad checks in an effort to recover their money...