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The flip side of multi-level marketing: A diagnosis of factors leading to the mass uptake of unregulated pyramid schemes in South Africa [PDF]
Innovative Marketing, 2022 This study sought to diagnose the factors leading to the mass uptake of unregulated pyramid schemes in South Africa. The study adopted an exploratory and qualitative research design.
Steven Kayambazinthu Msosa
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Neuron, 2007 Dendrites from the same neuron usually avoid contact with one another, a behavior known as self-avoidance. In this issue of Neuron and in the upcoming May 4, 2007 issue of Cell, a pair of studies by Soba et al. and Hughes et al. and a study by Matthews et al., respectively, identify products from the highly alternatively spliced Dscam gene as central ...
Kidd, Thomas, Condron, Barry
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Mild Cognitive Decline Is a Risk Factor for Scam Vulnerability in Older Adults
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2021 Research on elderly financial exploitation has mostly focused on financial abuse that occurs in families and other types of trusted relationships. As such, little is known about financial frauds and scams perpetrated by strangers.
Daisuke Ueno +12 more
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Blockchain-Enabled Deep Recurrent Neural Network Model for Clickbait Detection
IEEE Access, 2022 When people use social networks, they often fall prey to a clickbait scam. The scammer attempts to create a striking headline that attracts the majority of users and attaches a link.
Abdul Razaque +7 more
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Aparecium: understanding and detecting scam behaviors on Ethereum via biased random walk
Cybersecurity, 2023 Ethereum’s high attention, rich business, certain anonymity, and untraceability have attracted a group of attackers. Cybercrime on it has become increasingly rampant, among which scam behavior is convenient, cryptic, antagonistic and resulting in large ...
Chuyi Yan +7 more
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Trigonometric words ranking model for spam message classification
IET Networks, EarlyView., 2022 Abstract The significant increase in the volume of fake (spam) messages has led to an urgent need to develop and implement a robust anti‐spam method. Several of the current anti‐spam systems depend mainly on the word order of the message in determining the spam message, which results in the system's inability to predict the correct type of message when
Suha Mohammed Hadi +7 more
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Social Sciences, 2023 Highly manipulative online and telephone scams committed by strangers target everyone, but older individuals are especially susceptible to being victimized.
Katalin Parti, Faika Tahir
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 As the COVID-19 pandemic was unfolding, a surge in scams was registered across the globe. While COVID-19 poses higher health risks for older adults, it is unknown whether older adults are also facing higher financial risks as a result of COVID-19 scams ...
Julia Nolte +3 more
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S-SCAM is essential for synapse formation
Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, 2023 Synapse formation is critical for the wiring of neural circuits in the developing brain. The synaptic scaffolding protein S-SCAM/MAGI-2 has important roles in the assembly of signaling complexes at post-synaptic densities.
Nina Wittenmayer +11 more
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Initial Coin Offerings: Risk or Opportunity?
Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, 2020 Initial coin offerings (ICOs) are one of the several by-products in the world of the cryptocurrencies. Start-ups and existing businesses are turning to alternative sources of capital as opposed to classical channels like banks or venture capitalists ...
Anca Mirela Toma, Paola Cerchiello
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