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Nick Szabo· 2025-10-07 02:35
RT Karl Hollywood (@WokeCapital)BREAKING:🚨 Another bombshell case of baldfaced fraud and kickbacks involving a new Indian Chief Digital Officer Mamatha Chamarthi, this time at Goodyear in Akron. She is overseeing the massive outsourcing of jobs to India.One of the companies bidding on such contracts is, you guessed it, Accenture.Well Miss Chamarthi over here is ALSO the founder and chairwoman of the board of the T200 organization, a "networking organization" for female execs in tech. Earlier this month, T20 ...
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The Economist· 2025-10-07 00:00
By the time Chinese police dismantled Qian Zhimin’s operation, nearly 130,000 people, many of them elderly, had put money into it https://t.co/cJZsop4ufm ...
Revealing how criminals pulled off the tequila heist #shorts
60 Minutes· 2025-10-06 20:12
Fraudulent Scheme - Criminals created fake online profiles of trucking companies to bid on valuable jobs [1] - Unsuspecting drivers were hired online and redirected to deliver shipments to the criminals instead of the intended destination [1] - Drivers were unaware they were participating in a crime, believing they were delivering legitimate loads [2] - The destination on the bill of lading was changed, and drivers were instructed to take the load to Los Angeles [2]
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Elon Musk· 2025-10-05 04:49
RT 🇺🇸RealRobert🇺🇸 (@Real_RobN)And here is:Elon Musk: “Effectively, there’s a giant fraud loophole: the government can send money to an NGO that is no longer governed by the laws of the United States.”“Has USAID’s DOGE team found any evidence that any of the radical left Democrats — such as Maxine Waters, Adam Schiff, Chuck Schumer, or Nancy Pelosi — have received money directly from USAID?”@elonmusk “I am highly confident that a bunch of that money comes back to the U.S. and lands in the pockets of those yo ...
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Nick Szabo· 2025-10-04 14:19
RT Crémieux (@cremieuxrecueil)After a supposedly 111-year-old man was found to have been dead since 81 and unreported so his daughter could keep collecting his pension checks, Japanese authorities began investigating the country's oldest old.They found a mess. https://t.co/QxYyK7GDbu ...
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Bloomberg· 2025-10-04 12:00
Play Pointed, Bloomberg’s news quiz for risk-takers.This week's categories include CEOs, fraud, and conventions.Bet big on the topics you know, and maximize your score by leveraging your wagers. Choose wisely—wrong answers will cost you https://t.co/Nu0HVFedK0 https://t.co/g6ALZpbCOE ...
Online scam alert: How to avoid being scammed and ripped off online
Yahoo Finance· 2025-10-04 10:00
Fraud Landscape - 73% of US adults have experienced some kind of online scam or attack [1] - Reported losses from fraud hit $125 billion in 2024, showing a significant increase [1] - Scammers exploit human desires and vulnerabilities for illicit gain, targeting areas like romance, travel, and relief efforts [6] - Scammers are leveraging AI and deepfakes to create more sophisticated scams [10][18] - Democratization of access to AI capabilities allows scammers to target anyone and everyone, including small business owners [17][18][19] Common Scam Tactics - Dating scams involve fake verification services that subscribe victims to recurring billing services [3][4][5] - Travel scams involve mimicking airline or hotel websites to steal payment information [7] - Scammers use phishing, smishing (SMS phishing), and data from the dark web to obtain personal and financial information [7][8] - Scammers scrape social media profiles to create synthetic identities to target family or co-workers [16] Prevention and Mitigation - Consumers should be wary of deals that are too good to be true or situations where they are pressured to make a quick decision [9] - Consumers should check their account statements regularly and sign up for transaction alerts [5][13][14] - Consumers should be careful about the data they share, especially on social media [15][16] - Visa has identified over $1 billion in scams across its network and is working with law enforcement to dismantle them [9] - The industry needs to invest in good applications of AI to combat the bad applications of AI used by scammers [11]
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The Economist· 2025-10-04 00:20
Fake documents allowed Qian Zhimin to flee to Britain, where she and two accomplices were eventually arrested. The case has drawn much attention in China https://t.co/RyTSOFEBMx ...