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5 Tactics to Know So You Don’t Fall Victim to ‘Romance Fraud’

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In the chart-topping Netflix documentary The Tinder Swindler, three women describe how they were defrauded by convicted conman Simon Leviev (who was born Shimon Hayut) after meeting him on the dating app.   The film gives a detailed and deeply personal account of how Leviev used Tinder to connect with his victims and ultimately swindle … Read more

Bitcoin: El Salvador revamps cryptocurrency wallet after complaints of theft and fraud

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The Central American country’s experimental adoption of bitcoin has been beset by problems including identity theft and missing funds. Now the system is being relaunched with a US company providing the infrastructure Technology 3 February 2022 By Matthew Sparkes A vendor holds a sign showing that bitcoin is accepted at a store in San Salvador … Read more

This scientist accused the supplement industry of fraud. Now, his own work is under fire | Science

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In 2013, a team led by Steven Newmaster, a botanist at the University of Guelph (UG), took a hard look at popular herbal products such as echinacea, ginkgo biloba, and St. John’s wort. The team published a study that used DNA barcoding—a system to identify species using small, unique snippets of genetic material—to test whether … Read more

Elisabeth Bik: I scanned thousands of research images by eye to expose academic fraud

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Science consultant Elisabeth Bik is on a mission to detect duplicate images in scientific papers, exposing either genuine mistakes or signs of fraud. Humans 19 February 2020 , updated 2 December 2021 Voyagerix/Getty Images Microbiologist Elisabeth Bik has spent years searching for duplicated and manipulated images within scientific papers, scouring for clues as to whether … Read more