CBC Top StoriesApr 28
Federal government plans to ban crypto ATMs to stop scammers from defrauding Canadians
The federal government announced it’s planning to ban crypto ATMs in order to protect Canadians from scammers using the machines to defraud victims.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/canada-crypto-atm-ban-scammers-9.7180642?cmp=rss
CBC CanadaApr 28
Federal government plans to ban crypto ATMs to stop scammers from defrauding Canadians
The federal government announced it’s planning to ban crypto ATMs in order to protect Canadians from scammers using the machines to defraud victims.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/canada-crypto-atm-ban-scammers-9.7180642?cmp=rss
CBC TorontoApr 28
Federal government plans to ban crypto ATMs to stop scammers from defrauding Canadians
The federal government announced it’s planning to ban crypto ATMs in order to protect Canadians from scammers using the machines to defraud victims.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/canada-crypto-atm-ban-scammers-9.7180642?cmp=rss
CBC CanadaApr 23
Police arrest 3 people in cybercrime investigation, seize ‘SMS blasters’ used to defraud victims
Police say an SMS blaster mimics “a legitimate cellular tower” that sends fraudulent text messages to connected phones with links to websites designed to steal personal, financial or log-in information.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/sms-blaster-police-cybercrime-investigation-9.7174756?cmp=rss
WIST QuotationsMar 27

A quotation from Thomas Carlyle

Dupes indeed are many: but, of all dupes, there is none so fatally situated as he who lives in undue terror of being duped.

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Lecture (1840-05-22), “The Hero as King,” Home House, Portman Square, London

More about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/82854…

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Carlyle, Thomas - Lecture (1840-05-22), "The Hero as King," Home House, Portman Square, London | WIST Quotations

Dupes indeed are many: but, of all dupes, there is none so fatally situated as he who lives in undue terror of being duped. The lecture notes were collected by Carlyle into On Heroes, Hero-Worship, & the Heroic in History, Lecture 6 (1841).

WIST Quotations
Show threadMiss Kitty 🌈🌈🌈Feb 5
... charge of #scheme to #defraud, avoiding further jail time by receiving a sentence of conditional discharge. #Contempt of #Congress Case: Separately, Bannon was convicted in 2022 of contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena from the House committee investigating ...
Zeitgeisty AphorismsApr 13, 2025
In making there is more moving than #defraud.
Zeitgeisty AphorismsApr 11, 2025
Making is more opposed to moving than to #defraud.
Zzyzx/PMar 3, 2025

Party of #LawAndOrder my foot! #GOP is the party of #grift and #corruption and #unscrupulous #felons. They only know how to #defraud the #exchequer and #loot from the #USTreasury and flout the #constitution. What we see here is #planned #disassembly of #government and open #contravention of court orders.

#IllegalAdministration #CorruptAdminstration #felon #impeachment #antiscience #TraitorMAGA #TraitorGOP

https://www.yahoo.com/news/inside-collapse-nih-154334572.html

Inside the Collapse at the NIH

Administration officials pressured the NIH to avoid clear advice from the agency’s own lawyers to restart grant funding now.

Yahoo News
Joseph Lim Dec 14, 2024
#scum
#McKinsey pay $650m to settle #US #opioid case
"Prosecutors said McKinsey provided #Purdue advice to “turbocharge” #OxyContin sales. It was charged w conspiring to misbrand a #drug & obstruction of #justice.. former snr partner at McKinsey agreed to plead #guilty to #obstructionofjustice for destroying #records.. Purdue pleaded guilty in 2020 to #criminal #charges covering widespread misconduct including conspiring to #defraud US officials & pay #illegal #kickbacks"
https://www.bangkokpost.com/world/2919450/consultants-pay-650m-to-settle-us-opioid-case
Consultants pay $650m to settle US opioid case

<p>BOSTON - The multinational consulting firm McKinsey & Co has agreed to pay $650 million to resolve a US criminal investigation into its work advising the opioid manufacturer Purdue Pharma on how to boost sales.</p>

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