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2. Top 15 financial scams targeting older Americans — and what ...

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   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 ...

3. Advance-fee scam - Wikipedia

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   Advance-fee scam. An advance-fee scam is a form of fraud and is one of the most common types of confidence tricks. The scam typically involves promising the victim a significant share of a large sum of money, in return for a small up-front payment, which the fraudster claims will be used to obtain the large sum. [ 1][ 2] If a victim makes the ...

4. Hacker finds bug that allowed anyone to bypass Facebook 2FA

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   Mänôz found the bug in the Meta Accounts Center last year, and reported it to the company in mid-September. Meta fixed the bug a few days later, and paid Mänôz $27,200 for reporting the bug ...

5. Top anonymous social app NGL forced to stop tricking its users

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   By July, NGL had topped 15 million downloads and had pulled in $2.4 million in revenue by selling its subscriptions. Anonymous social app NGL tops 15M installs, $2.4M in revenue as users complain ...

6. FTC study finds 'dark patterns' used by a majority of ...

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   In an analysis of 642 websites and apps offering subscription services, the study found that the majority (nearly 76%) used at least one dark pattern and nearly 67% used more than one. Dark ...

7. Discounts and allowances - Wikipedia

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   Trade discounts are given to try to increase the volume of sales being made by the supplier. The discount described as trade rate discount is sometimes called "trade discount". Trade discount is the discount allowed on retail price of a product or something. for e.g. Retail price of a cream is 25 and trade discount is 2% on 25.

8. Scam - Wikipedia

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   Scam. A scam, or a confidence trick, is an attempt to defraud a person or group after first gaining their trust. Confidence tricks exploit victims using a combination of the victim's credulity, naïveté, compassion, vanity, confidence, irresponsibility, and greed. Researchers have defined confidence tricks as "a distinctive species of ...

9. What Does the 'Dolphin-Safe' Tuna Label Really Mean?

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   Is the "dolphin-safe" law actually making a difference? It's complicated. On the one hand, NOAA cited data by the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission that states "the total annual mortality of ...