All posts tagged with scams
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-(Natural News) Many businesses started using QR code during the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic to reduce contact between staff and customers. Some restaurants give a QR code so you can see their menu on your phone and movie theaters will sometimes give you a QR code as your ticket when you prepay online. Other businesses also give […]
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-(Natural News) OpenSea is an eBay-like site where people can look around for millions of nonfungible tokens or NFTs, purchase the images and put their own up for sale. In the past 18 months, OpenSea has become the leading and the largest NFT marketplace in the world. One of the foremost crypto start-up companies, it […]
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-(Natural News) As Uber and Grubhub continue merger talks, questions are being raised over how food-delivery companies such as the latter, as well as rival DoorDash, are actually making money for their investors. In their latest round of merger talks, Grubhub rejected Uber’s offer of 1.9 of the latter’s shares for one of its shares, stating that the […]
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-(Natural News) To err is human. But if an older person falls for a financial scam, it may be an early warning sign of declining mental powers. And such cognitive decline eventually leads to dementia and even Alzheimer’s disease. Alzheimer’s afflicts a third of the population aged 85 or older. The disease is incurable. Existing […]
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-(Natural News) What’s more important: Assaulting people’s free speech rights or protecting their intellectual property rights? At Amazon, the biggest priority would seem to be the former, as reports are now surfacing about authors whose books are being openly counterfeited and sold on Amazon – even as Jeff Bezos and his army of anti-First Amendment […]
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-(Natural News) Just in case a cabal of criminals tries to pull the same scam again, should you come across an alleged “green energy” investment opportunity that promises big returns through the production of so-called “biochar,” don’t fall for it: Biochar is nothing more than incinerated biosludge, which in and of itself is a “green […]
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-(Natural News) There was a time in the not too distant past that a person actually had to work really hard and excel at something before they became famous. Whether it was winning gold at the Olympics, being a really talented actor, or going to the moon, famous people only got that way after accomplishing […]
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-(Natural News) Theranos and its female founder, Elizabeth Holmes were widely promoted as the would-be future of feminism and medical technology. But as it turned out, her promises of life-changing technology in the world of blood testing were empty, and the science she based her entire company on was fraudulent. How did one woman fool […]
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-(Natural News) According to a recent hit piece from The New York Times titled, “Over 80,000 Americans Died of Flu Last Winter, Highest Toll in Years,” newly released data from the CDC shows that a shockingly high number of people died from the flu during the 2017-2018 season. But did 80,000 people really die from flu — […]
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-(Natural News) In response to all of the fake honey that have been infiltrating the market for the longest time, Spanish researchers have come up with an electronic tongue that can tell the difference. An article in Alpha Galileo reported that the device is inexpensive, is quick to pick up on the presence of adulterated honey, and […]
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