Reports to the FTC show a growing wave of scams aimed squarely at retirees’ life savings. These scammers pretend to be from known and trusted government agencies and businesses.
False alarm, real scam: how scammers are stealing older adults’ life ...
This video shows you how to report scams, fraud, and bad business practices to the Federal Trade Commission at https://ReportFraud.ftc.gov and why it’s important to do it.
The Federal Trade Commission is sending more than $356,900 in refunds to consumers harmed by scammers who lured struggling student loan borrowers into signing up for a program that promised loan forgiveness that did not exist. In the FTC’s complaint against SL Finance LLC and its owners Michael Castillo and Christian Castillo, the agency charges that the defendants pretended to be affiliated ...
The FTC is not contacting people about refunds in the Amazon matter. If you get a call from someone who claims to be from the FTC, it’s a scam. Report it at ReportFraud.ftc.gov. The FTC will never demand money, make threats, tell you to transfer money, or promise you a prize. And no one from Amazon will ever ask you for money to get a refund. Only scammers say they can get you special access ...
According to Jeff Miller's Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics, the term kernel was first used in this meaning by Pontryagin (in translation by Lehmer) in the slightly broader context of group homomorphisms. It doesn't say why Pontryagin or Lehmer chose that particular word though.
matrices - Word origin / meaning of 'kernel' in linear algebra ...