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With the increasing percentage of fraudulent activities, companies require a well established and authenticate technology to control the risks or prevent their working systems from various kinds of attacks. However, advances in spear phishing have made attacks targeted, highly relevant and personalized with the help of social media. In a phishing attack, cybercriminals impersonate a trusted entity like your bank, employer, or even tech support in order to “fish” for private information like your password or credit card number. Companies take advantage of cloud computing services so that they don’t even have to buy their own computers to do all that data crunching. The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control is working with the Mexican government to stop scams by sanctioning individuals and companies connected to time-share scams. In 1972, under President Nixon’s expansion of Social Security, Medicare hospital insurance benefits were extended to disabled individuals under 65. For someone 65 or over, this means you or your spouse must have worked at least 10 years (they don’t have to be consecutive) with Social Security and Medicare taxes withheld from your pay (this tax is part of the Federal Insurance Contributions Act, which shows up as FICA on your pay stub). The agreement stems from the FTC’s 1990 complaint naming Newport Gems, Inc., doing business as Capital Assets International; RIME Inc., doing business as First Capital Trading Co.; and three individuals that they falsely represented the value, past appreciation, investment risk, likely resale price, and ease of liquidating their gemstones. To settle the charges against GSI and Koethe, in connection with any appraisal services they perform on gemstones or any other assets sold as investments, they would be prohibited from, among other things, falsely representing the cost or the fair market, wholesale, replacement or cash-liquidation value of the asset and have agreed to clearly and prominently disclose on every document they issue discussing an investment in gemstones, that “purchasing gemstones as an investment is very risky”.
Settlements negotiated by the FTC with several Los Angeles-area based defendants, charged by the FTC with operating a deceptive telemarketing scheme to sell gemstones as investments, include a total of $115,000 in redress for consumers who lost money in the scheme. The prices paid by consumers ranged from less than $2,000 to tens of thousands of dollars. The stones, including tourmalines, tsavorites, tanzanites, and spinels sold for prices ranging from a few thousand dollars to many tens of thousands of dollars, through unsolicited telephone calls to consumers. CEO, Sarabeth Koethe allegedly provided appraisal certificates that substantially overstated the values of the gemstones and bore no relation to the values at which consumers could resell their gemstones. They also delivered gemstones inferior in quality to those ordered, kept consumers’ gemstones and replaced them ones of lesser value. The injunctions and default judgments prohibit the officers, the salesmen and IGS from misrepresenting the types, characteristics, quality and retail value of gemstones and other investments. Consent judgments have the force of law when signed by the judge. Scammers create artificial urgency to force you into a rushed decision. Let them know what happened; they’ll probably want to cancel and replace your affected cards to prevent the scammers from using them again. Romance scammers are hard at work wooing people on dating apps and social media. Protect your Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security cards; keep them in a safe place (not your wallet), and only get them out when you are going to see a health care provider. You also want to be safe on Facebook Marketplace, and anywhere else where you may be looking at potential homes to rent. You also will want to go to your local police department and attorney general to see what they can do for you as well. Data has be en generated with GSA Content Ge nerator DEMO!
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