Here, we look at some of the largest stock scam incidents from the 1980s through the 2000s. ZZZZ Best (1986) Barry Minkow, the owner of this business, claimed that this carpet cleaning company of the 1980s would become the "General Motors of carpet cleaning."1 Minkow appeared to be ...
Credit card scamsare very similar to identity theft scams and often share the same end goal: to make unauthorized transactions or steal your identity. Scammers will contact you, claiming to be your bank or credit card company, and ask you to verify your account information. Occasionally, the ...
Besides the personal information of website members, this data breach also exposed many scam dating websites with fabricated female profiles.. 68. Antheus Tecnologia Data Breach Date: March 2020 Impact: 76,000 fingerprints Antheus Tecnologia, a Brazilian biometrics company specializing in the developme...
While CEO, Nacchio continually told Wall Street that aggressiverevenuetargets would be reached even as the company was tanking. He earned $52 million selling stock with the knowledge that it was headed for disaster. Nacchio was convicted of 19 counts of insider trading and ordered to pay $19 m...
High stock market returns, especially when we achieve them in a short time, have a dangerous way of eclipsing our ignorance. Not just that, we often don’t know what we are doing. Worse, we don’t know that we don’t know what we are doing. ...
If I was the whiz kid, I would keep quiet and rack in millions of dollars with my secret, and I wouldn’t want to scam poor folks into buying my secret either. Even if I were to sell the secret, I wouldn’t sell you the real secret. I would sell you some bullshit because the ...
Facebook recentlyrevamped some aspects of their layout, in hopes of appealing more to younger users. The new look includes new tabs for “Explore” and “Local”. “Local” brings together content from Reels, Events, Groups, and Marketplace. “Explore” showcases accounts you don’t currently...
Huge retailers that stock massive amounts of inventory can help you stretch your money further this holiday shopping season. Erica SandbergNov. 18, 2024 Will Trump Cause a Recession? Donald Trump takes office in early 2025, and experts debate whether his policies will usher in a period of econ...
Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com Financial analyst and stock trader Gregory Mannarino says pay no attention to the rising stock market because it is “fake.” Mannarino says, “The manipulation is absolutely epic. We have never seen anything like it. There
Yandex is the most-used search engine in Russia and thefifth most popular worldwide. It has a Nasdaq-traded stock and a market cap of over $14 billion. According to cybercrime experts, though, the site has not implemented controls employed by other large search engines that have cut the ac...