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Strip search phone call scam. 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 ...
Antonio is a poor man who has to support his daughter and especially he should pay her stay at a prestigious boarding school to study dance. Antonio so starts with his friend Camillo to deceive the poor people of Rome stealing many sums of money with various confidence tricks. Among the various scams that famous are the receipt of a billion dollars for the prince of Katanga (Antonio in ...
Maharashtra Irrigation Scam. The Maharashtra Irrigation Scam was an alleged government scam which involved financial irregularities of ₹35,000 crore (US$4.4 billion) in the Indian state of Maharashtra during 1999–2009. The allegations of corruption were made after a 2012 Economic Survey stated that the state's irrigation potential had ...
MyLife is an American information brokerage firm. Founded by Jeffrey Tinsley in 2002 as Reunion.com, it changed names following a 2008 merger with Wink.com. MyLife gathers personal information through public records and other sources to automatically generate a "MyLife Public Page" for each person. [1] These pages can list a variety of personal information, including an individual's age, past ...
Boiler room (business) In business, a boiler room is an outbound call center selling questionable investments by telephone. It usually refers to a room where salespeople work using unfair, dishonest sales tactics, sometimes selling penny stocks or private placements or committing outright stock fraud. A common boiler room tactic is the use of ...
Satyam scandal. The Satyam Computer Services scandal was India's largest corporate fraud until 2010. The founder and directors of India -based outsourcing company Satyam Computer Services, falsified the accounts, inflated the share price, and stole large sums from the company. Much of this was invested in property.
YouMail Inc. YouMail is an Irvine, CA -based developer of a visual voicemail [1] and Robocall blocking service for mobile phones, [2] available in the US and the UK. [3] Their voicemail mobile app replaces the voicemail service offered by mobile phone service providers, and offers webmail -like voicemail access and voicemail-to-text ...
Government Hazi Mohammad Mohsin College ( Bengali: সরকারি হাজী মুহাম্মদ মহসিন কলেজ) is one of the renowned colleges of Bangladesh located in Chittagong, Bangladesh. Named after Muhammad Mohsin, a 19th-century philanthropist, it is one of the oldest educational institutions in the country, originally established in British India in 1874 as ...