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2. Facebook's new website lets fans buy 'Stars' without paying ...

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   Creators who complete a Stars Party will receive a $50 bonus for each one from Dec. 22, 2021 through Jan. 3, 2022, Facebook says. As part of the company’s $1 billion creator fund, it’s also ...

3. 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 ...

4. Scamville: The Social Gaming Ecosystem Of Hell | TechCrunch

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   Another scam: Video Professor. Users are offered in game currency if they sign up to receive a free learning CD from Video Professor. The user is told they pay nothing except a $10 shipping charge.

5. 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 ...

6. 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 ...

7. 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 ...

8. 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 ...

9. HIIT may be more effective than moderate exercise after a stroke

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   “Exercise time, not including warm-up and cool-down, was 19 minutes. The moderate-intensity continuous exercise sessions were 40-80% intensity for 20-30 minutes.” Improved cardiorespiratory ...