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☆ Refund fraud schemes promoted on TikTok, Telegram are costing Amazon and other retailers billions of dollars
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-14 | by ( Annie Palmer | In Annierpalmer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +14 min

The following month, 10 men were indicted in Oklahoma, charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud for allegedly operating a refund fraud service named Artemis Refund Group. A thriving refund fraud marketFor every refund fraud service shut down by law enforcement, swarms of similar groups remain open for business. CNBC viewed several active refund fraud services on encrypted messaging app Telegram, each with thousands of followers. Zoom In Icon Arrows pointing outwards A Google form from an active refund fraud service explaining which stores it targets and how much it charges customers. Zoom In Icon Arrows pointing outwards A refund fraud service claims to have access to Amazon insiders in a Telegram post.

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☆ A Leading Memory Researcher Explains How to Make Precious Moments Last
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-04 | by ( David Marchese | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +9 min

Mamadi Doumbouya for The New York Times Talk A Leading Memory Researcher Explains How to Make Precious Moments LastOur memories form the bedrock of who we are. Tell me more about what you mean when you say “illusion.” I probably overstated it with the word “illusion,” but there is an illusionary component. But if you think about it from an evolutionary perspective, memory, often, is educated guesses by the brain about what’s important. You know, the training environment I was in was very down on psychoanalysis, but it always comes back to memory. We have these little compartments that are rooted somewhat in memory that we can access at different moments.

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☆ New Zealand Lawmaker Resigns After Shoplifting Allegations
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-16 | by ( Emma Bubola | More About Emma Bubola | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A lawmaker from New Zealand quit her job on Tuesday after allegations emerged that she had shoplifted from two clothing stores, actions she said were caused by stress affecting her mental health. I’m sorry,” said the lawmaker, Golriz Ghahraman, in a statement on Tuesday. Image Golriz Ghahraman in 2017. Credit... Hannah Peters/Getty ImageAllegations of shoplifting started appearing in New Zealand’s news media this month. Some reports also published a CCTV video that appeared to show Ms. Ghahraman taking a handbag from a clothing store. Leaders from her party, the center-left Green Party, confirmed that the police were investigating the episodes, which according to the news reports, happened in the cities of Auckland and Wellington last year.

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☆ New Zealand Green Party Parliamentarian Resigns Over Shoplifting Allegations
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-15 | by ( Jan. | At P.M. | ) www.usnews.com time to read: +1 min

By Lucy CraymerWELLINGTON (Reuters) - A New Zealand Green Party parliamentarian resigned on Monday after it was alleged by media she had shoplifted at high end local boutiques on at least three occasions. It’s not a behaviour I can explain because it’s not rational in any way, and after medical evaluation, I understand I’m not well," her statement said. New Zealand Police said in a statement they were investigating an incident at a Ponsonby store in December but would not give any other details. Ghahraman said that she thanked Scotties Boutique for their kindness and empathy. Green Party co-leader James Shaw said that while parliament was a stressful place for everybody, Ghahraman had a particularly difficult time as she had received numerous threats from members of the public since arriving in office.

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☆ How a culture of sports betting and fantasy gaming is emerging on college campuses
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-10 | by ( Margaret Fleming | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +14 min

Noah, a 19-year-old who goes to college in Illinois, uses sports betting to keep up with his friends from high school. The expansion of legal sports betting in the US has fueled a widespread culture of gambling on college campuses, as savvy students find betting alternatives and workarounds for age limits and state restrictions. Many sports-loving college students like Marcus and Noah casually use fantasy gaming, sweepstakes, and betting to make and maintain friendships. BI spoke with seven college students and three researchers to learn more about what sports betting looks like on campuses. A culture of sports betting sustains friendshipsSince the expansion of legalization, sports betting and gaming have exploded on college campuses largely through word of mouth.

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☆ Opinion: Shopping for perfume is returning to its roots
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-24 | by ( Opinion Elena Sheppard | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

The new protocol involves perfume samples on display and a salesperson on call to retrieve the item should a patron want to purchase. The company told CNN the change was implemented because perfumes and colognes were among the most frequently shoplifted items in Sephora stores, and shoplifting numbers were trending higher. At Sephora, consumers could handle the product themselves, wandering the aisles and filling up shopping baskets like they were at the supermarket. Returning to a different perfume shopping model is a bit of a return to the status quo of an earlier era. Previous generations did more interfacing with salespeople in stores, particularly for items like perfume, and perhaps we should too.

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☆ Is shoplifting getting worse? It depends on how you measure it.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-10 | by ( Dominick Reuter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

While rates are up in New York and Los Angeles, they're down in Seattle and San Francisco. In short, the question of whether shoplifting is getting worse depends a lot on how you define "worse." New York and Los Angeles led the pack with the largest increases in shoplifting (more than 60%) from 2019 to 2023. AdvertisementAdvertisementIn other words, apart from New York and Los Angeles, shoplifting incidents are at or below levels long considered "normal" in the US. Target, for example, closed nine stores after CEO Brian Cornell said in August that shoplifting incidents "involving violence or threats of violence" had more than doubled since January.

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☆ Ohio police release video of fatal shooting of pregnant Black woman
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-01 | by ( Brendan O'Brien | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Video of the incident in Blendon Township on Aug. 24 followed demands by the family of the 21-year-old woman, Ta'Kiya Young, for the officer who fired the fatal shot to be held accountable. "A theft suspect drove her car into one of my officers and the officer fired a single shot through the windshield," Blendon Police Chief John Belford said in a statement accompanying the release. Video made public on Friday shows an officer standing next to Young's vehicle as he repeatedly orders her to get out. A second officer comes around the front of vehicle and points a gun at the windshield, demanding that she exits. Young can be seen turning the wheels to the right, away from the officer, before the vehicle begins moving toward him.

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☆ Retail crime has hit a bustling Kansas metropolis
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-02 | by ( Parija Kavilanz | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

Republican Kris Kobach, Kansas’ attorney general, said retail crime is a “spiraling problem” in his state, adding that Kansas and Missouri are among the top 10 states in the nation for volume of retail crime. “There is a link between drug trafficking and organized retail crime,” Kobach told lawmakers in June. “Organized retail crime is a problem that is getting worse, not better. Organized retail crime offers criminals a business model of pure profit, “with no overhead, rent, product cost. In early June, Kobach testified before a House Judiciary Committee hearing on “Organized Retail Crime and the Threat to Public Safety.”“When one thinks about the explosion of organized retail crime in the United States, the State of Kansas may not intuitively jump to mind,” he told lawmakers.

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☆ Glenda Jackson, Oscar-Winning Actress Turned Politician, Dies at 87
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-15 | by ( Benedict Nightingale | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

But she did not flourish there and left at 16. (Ms. Jackson remained convinced that she was plain, even ugly — a belief later reinforced by the academy’s principal, who told her that she could become only a character actress and “shouldn’t expect to work much before you’re 40.”)The schooling prepared her for what became six years in provincial repertory. In 1958 she married Roy Hodges, a fellow actor. Regional stage work meant periods of unemployment, odd jobs and poverty for the couple, and Ms. Jackson later admitted that she had shoplifted food and other essentials that she could conceal under her coat. Her big break came in 1964, when the director Mr. Brook brought her into an experimental group he was assembling for the recently formed Royal Shakespeare Company.

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☆ Body camera footage released after fatal police shooting of 14-year-old in Colorado
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-11 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

June 11 (Reuters) - (This story contains graphic language in paragraph 9)Police in Aurora, Colorado, have released body camera footage following the death of a teenager who was shot by an officer after an alleged robbery. Richardson, who was shot in the abdomen, later died at the hospital, police said. "Gun, gun, let go of the fucking gun," Gruszeczka said. The body camera footage released by police does not show whether Richardson ever pointed the weapon at the officers. Richardson's family reviewed the footage before its public release, and Acevedo said he has been in contact with family members.

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☆ Until you stop the resale marketplace for shoplifted items the theft won't stop, says Gerald Storch
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-18 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailUntil you stop the resale marketplace for shoplifted items the theft won't stop, says Gerald StorchGerald Storch, Storch Advisors CEO and fmr. CEO of Toys 'R' Us and Hudson's Bay, joins CNBC's Courtney Reagan and 'Last Call' to discuss the recent uptick in shoplifting and how it's impacting retail brands.

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America's biggest retailers say organized retail crime has grown into a multibillion-dollar problem, but the effectiveness of their strategies to solve it and the validity of the data overall have come into question. However, the problem isn't as clear-cut as retailers and trade groups have made it seem. External retail crime accounts for only 37% of those losses, or about $35 billion, the NRF data shows. Still, law enforcement agencies and retailers insist organized retail crime remains an issue and said they stand behind their data. We see it every day in our stores," Scott Glenn, Home Depot's vice president of asset protection, told CNBC.

☆ You could be buying shoplifted stuff on Amazon, eBay, or Facebook Marketplace
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-24 | by ( Jacob Zinkula | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Many are selling stolen goods on online platforms to unwitting consumers. A Meta spokesperson said Facebook Marketplace prohibits the sale of stolen items and has "specialized teams that work with law enforcement to respond to legal requests." This e-fencing — the selling of stolen goods online — is not a new phenomenon. In recent years, many online platforms have already taken steps to crack down on the selling of stolen goods. To what degree the legislation, along with other measures, reduces the sale of stolen goods across these platforms remains to be seen.

☆ 'It never feels like you're out of poverty': comedian Moses Storm mines his trauma for laughs
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-17 | by ( Annie Nova | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

Most recently, he debuted in his own comedy special on HBO Max, "Trash White," produced by his childhood icon, Conan O'Brien. They're coming in with their own anger and their own life. I don't think there's a topic in comedy that's off limits because it's too sad. AN: What is it hard to pitch a comedy special about poverty? MS: If you go in like, 'I'm going to do a hilarious comedy special about the economic and generational poverty in this country,' people are like, 'Boooo.'

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