Word: scams
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...hope that she’s going to get all the help she needs, because I honestly don’t know what possesses somebody to scam so many people,” Cory said...
...year-old student at Harvard’s Extension School was arrested on Friday for allegedly running a complex real-estate scam that used made-up e-mail addresses and old bank accounts to defraud at least seven apartment-seekers out of thousands of dollars...
...scam went like this, according to police reports and interviews with victims: Vaghar lured people on Craigslist by offering an apartment for rent in Harvard Square—in most cases, her apartment at 20 Prescott Street—at an extremely low price, ranging from $300 to $500 a month...
...recalls. "Instead, he said, 'Eight billion, 11 billion, 14 billion--it's all the same.'" Stunned, Ferraris urged Tanzi to call a meeting with the company's banks to explain the debt problem. Tanzi refused, Ferraris quit, and a few weeks later, on Dec. 19, Europe's biggest corporate scam was exposed. Parmalat confirmed that an account it had claimed to have at Bank of America with $4.9 billion in cash did not, in fact, exist...
Cheaper iPod prices and the aforementioned scam are leading more and more of those we know and love to fall victim to this accursed scourge. Those left untouched should realize the magnitude of the problem or they will soon be in the minority...