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Category: Loan Scams
Egypt completes a $3bn loan for green and Islamic financing – Arab News
Egypt completes a $3bn loan for green and Islamic financing Arab News Read more…
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Fraudsters uncover new technique to steal cash from families
Families looking to borrow money to cope with the burgeoning cost of living crisis have become the target of criminal gangs. Banks have warned of…
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Former Obama White House adviser pleads guilty to scamming school he founded
Seth Andrew Wikimedia Commons A former Obama White House adviser pleaded guilty Friday to wire fraud relating to a scheme to steal more than $218,000…
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Audit Report, State Patrol Investigation Shed Light on Fraud That Cost Tenino $280,309 in 2020
By Emily Fitzgerald / emily@chronline.com While initial reports indicated the City of Tenino lost roughly $270,000 to scammers in 2020, Washington State Patrol (WSP)’s fraud…
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Phone scam targets small business owners seeking financial assistance
SUN PRAIRIE, Wis. (WMTV) – A new scam is trying to take advantage of small business owners who have applied for loans from the Small…
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The 3-Steps Structure of Online Love Scams
Scammers and hackers use different tactics to break people’s wallets. However, sometimes they end up breaking their hearts too. This happens through the so-called ‘love’…
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Scam-hit accounts dept at standstill, no salary yet for NMC staff | Nagpur News
Nagpur: The Bogus Contracts Scam and retirement of Chief Accounts and Finance Officer (CAFO) have hit all financial works in Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC). NMC…
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Navient to cancel 66,000 loans worth $1.7 bln to resolve predatory lending claims
Jan 13 (Reuters) – U.S. student loan giant Navient Corp (NAVI.O) will cancel $1.7 billion in debt owed by 66,000 borrowers and recompense 350,000 others…
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Footprint Analytics: Over 600 Projects Got REKT in 2021, $2.2B Lost | Annual Report 2021
In the crypto world, there are 4 main ways you can get REKT (“experience significant financial loss due to shady malfeasance”—in crypto terms.) An exit…
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