More specifically, Nunes is suing Twitter, a Republican strategist, and two parody Twitter accounts, one purporting to be Nunes's mother, the other purporting to be Nunes's cow.
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According to Price, someone purporting to be Unsworth's agent had.
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The story included explicit images purporting to be of Hill and the staffer.
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One can only "appropriate" another's culture by purporting to be of that culture.
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"It's not an all-encompassing group, but in our small communities, we started noticing these accounts purporting to be black, that's where this started," said I'Nasah Crockett, a black woman who has worked to identify accounts purporting to be black.
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The ad was placed on behalf of Sears, purporting to be from Santa himself.
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This year Bednar's sister received gloating Snapchat messages purporting to be from his killer.
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Comedian Sarah Silverman's Twitter account has been hacked by a group purporting to be Anonymous.
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It was from a person named Joshua purporting to be interested in converting to Islam.
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The complaint alleges Kang spoke with undercover FBI agents purporting to be connected to ISIS.
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However, heavily biased news reporting, purporting to be fair and objective, is alive and well.
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The complaint alleged Kang spoke with several undercover FBI agents purporting to be connected to ISIS.
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Here's the sitch -- a document purporting to be a "Report of Investigation" by the U.S. Dept.
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His comments come after two photographs purporting to be of Yingluck were widely shared on social media.
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Have you seen that FBI file, purporting to be about the death of DNC staffer Seth Rich?
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The images purporting to be the upcoming smartphone appeared online on Weibo and show a foldable design.
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Anyone purporting to be Nakamoto can easily prove so by signing a message with Nakamoto's cryptographic keys.
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But before the estate could be dispersed, an astounding 2,303 people came forward purporting to be relatives.
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Canada, while purporting to be a proud multilingual country, undoubtedly harbors people who think the same way.
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That profile included a photo purporting to be the student, but it was someone else, prosecutors said.
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However, another auction listing purporting to be selling the same gun has appeared on United Gun Group Auction.
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It's unlikely things will be different with today's People's Climate March, which isn't even purporting to be apolitical.
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Similar "Mother's Day" coupons have been found on Facebook purporting to be from Home Depot, Target and IKEA.
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That fact sheet lined up with a previously leaked draft of principles purporting to be an administration document.
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Searching for a support number brought up many sites purporting to be Google support, but no Google number.
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"You don't go to jail for lying on TV, you dumb fuck," a voice purporting to be D'Amico responds.
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In the past 24 hours, customers have been receiving emails purporting to be from Netflix soliciting their account information.
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In January, 2011, outside a Holiday Inn, he handed her a letter purporting to be from a C.I.A. agent.
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The first day 8kun was up, a user purporting to be "Q" posted, which made waves among Q devotees.
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Matt Kumagai of Los Angeles recently received a barrage of calls purporting to be from Honduras, Belarus and Lithuania.
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Before unveiling the tariff threat, Trump posted a video purporting to be of the crossing on his Twitter feed.
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He got an email purporting to be from Google saying his password needed to be reset by clicking a link.
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Some videos purporting to be children's cartoons have been found spiked with violence, or with predatory comments below the line.
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Phishing involves sending fake messages—purporting to be from an official source—that ask for passwords or other identifying information.
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A video featuring an audio recording purporting to be leader Abubakar Shekau was posted on social media late on Monday.
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They do so, usually while purporting to be religious groups, by using parallel and equally sophisticated techniques of mental manipulation.
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"It's like using an undercover operative purporting to be part of a criminal gang, except it's online," Mr. Inkster said.
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In addition, when products purporting to be dietary supplements contain undeclared APIs, they are generally excluded from definition of dietary supplement.
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In April, a video was published by the ISIS media wing al-Furqan that showed a man purporting to be Baghdadi.
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Footage purporting to be of the blast site moments afterward showed barrels lying on top of what's left of destroyed buildings.
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Saif said people purporting to be JUUL brand representatives come by regularly to update sidewalk-facing signage on his store windows.
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In a strange twist, Cisneros' campaign accused Thorburn's campaign of releasing a fake voicemail with a man purporting to be Cisneros.
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As usual, people are posting random photos purporting to be the shooter as well as other photos of "missing" family members.
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In June, an Amnesty researcher received a WhatsApp message, which included a link purporting to be from an Arabic news website.
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Someone purporting to be the attacker appears in the DAO slack channel claiming they'll bribe miners to oppose the soft fork.
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Another page showed footage from a movie purporting to be actual footage of migrants smashing a police car, according to Avaaz.
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The text messages popped up on cellphones across the country, purporting to be an urgent communication from the United States Army.
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Just two days later, the party launched a spoof website purporting to be the Labour Party's manifesto while attacking its pledges.
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Tech companies have become rightly concerned about their unintended involvement in the dissemination of obviously untrue material purporting to be true.
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It did not provide financial details of the arrangement, but did tweet out a slide purporting to be from Twitter's presentation.
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Previous reports have established that Russian trolls, using accounts purporting to be of U.S. activists or grassroots organizations, had organized political rallies.
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The original email purporting to be from Fink was long, detailed and included the corporate-speak so common in real investor letters.
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The man purporting to be al-Zawahiri said in the message that the jihadist group was "sad" over the death of Mansour.
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Following Trump's election, a handful of popular "rogue" Twitter accounts sprang up, purporting to be run by disgruntled employees of federal agencies.
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In other words, this nonfiction film has, in fact, been based on a fiction, albeit one purporting to be nonfiction, all along.
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If someone has created an account purporting to be you, the social network will investigate the activity once the activity is reported.
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Russian media had earlier published an unconfirmed warning posted on social media before the blast by someone purporting to be the bomber.
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Editor's note: Due to an editing error, an earlier version of this article quoted an unverified Twitter account purporting to be Flynn's.
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The agent did not elaborate on whether Santiago was purporting to be linked to ISIS or simply inspired by the terrorist organization.
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It also analyzes the hardware to understand the graphics driver and audio driver of whatever device the bot is purporting to be.
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Excitement pulsed through the QAnon conspiracy-theory community Saturday after new posts on 8kun from a user purporting to be "Q" appeared.
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Porto's communications director Francisco Marques said he received the data anonymously from an individual purporting to be a fan of the club.
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The studio's odd "Comrade Detective," starring Channing Tatum and purporting to be a lost Romanian cop show, arrived on Amazon in August.
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Purporting to be an "adaptation of a recently discovered, never released YA novel by Mike Pence," Gay Future is a subversive snack.
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A woman purporting to be his girlfriend clearly played a significant role in disarming the victims, making them feel comfortable and safe.
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The U.K.'s Conservative Party on Thursday created a spoof website purporting to be the Labour Party's manifesto and attacking its pledges.
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He pointed me to an audio recording purporting to be a firsthand account of the incident that was posted to YouTube Wednesday morning.
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At a glance, it's not always easy to immediately suss out whether a comment is coming from the account it's purporting to be.
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A man purporting to be Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau on Thursday denied the group had been pushed out of the Sambisa forest.
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He found contact info for a person purporting to be an ISIS member in Syria and asked how to get to the caliphate.
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That left the information door wide open for those purporting to be legitimate media that skew information and events to reframe for attacks.
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The investigation into Holzer began after an undercover FBI agent purporting to be a woman who supports white supremacy contacted him on Facebook.
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US Central Command also released images purporting to be the weapons storage facility targets hit in the airstrikes that took place near Baghdad.
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Bradshaw&aposs campaign team received an email purporting to be from a Russian government whistleblower, promising insider knowledge of the Kremlin&aposs operations.
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"They will be armed with signed documents purporting to be coming from my bosses to permit them in to dig the soils," he said.
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It included a particularly bad ad purporting to be from Apple, which appeared when one searched for the terms "apple tech support" on Google.
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About nine gigabytes of data purporting to be documents from the Macron campaign were posted on Pastebin, a site that allows anonymous document sharing.
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To avoid most tax scams, however, all that's necessary is to ignore any message purporting to be from the IRS unless it's a letter.
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It's intended to stem the potential damage of synthetic media purporting to be authentic, which is rare enough now but soon may be commonplace.
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In the case of the Red Roof Inn, someone purporting to be the manager responded to some negative reviews on TripAdvisor, the lawsuit says.
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The first video, which was spread by a now-suspended account purporting to be a California teacher, showed about 50 seconds from a longer scene.
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Drudge on Tuesday tweeted an image of a page from a document purporting to be Ailes separation agreement with Fox that was later taken down.
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In the video, a man purporting to be Baghdadi appeared to be wearing a casual outfit, sitting on the ground next to an assault rifle.
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Videos on social media purporting to be from the scene show people, including children, who appear unresponsive; others struggle to breathe or wear oxygen masks.
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Fake news has emerged as a major concern in the campaign, with fake pro-Kenyatta reports purporting to be from CNN, BBC and Transparency International.
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Aggressive attacks on the union's female leadership from online accounts purporting to be Sanders supporters escalated the tension between the Sanders campaign and the union.
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Drudge on Tuesday tweeted an image of a page from a document purporting to be Ailes' separation agreement with Fox that was later taken down.
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The audio appears to be edited, because the actor purporting to be Groysman speaks in Russian and Perry speaks in English, but no translation is heard.
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In many instances, cybercriminals send emails, text messages and make calls purporting to be the IRS, which trick filers into sending money or revealing personal information.
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Newly leaked images purporting to be Google's next flagship Android phone have all-but-revealed what the device will look like, and it doesn't look pretty.
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Prosecutors believe he was behind an email sent from someone purporting to be a Russian hacker who was offering stolen tax agency files to local media.
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On March 103 an employee at software company Pivotal Labs received an email purporting to be from CEO Rob Mee, asking for personal information about employees.
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A post by a member with the user name "JeffJacksonNC" purporting to be Jackson confirmed meeting with the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) in the website.
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Deadspin's use of a photo purporting to be a sexted shot of Brett Favre's penis broke open broader sexual harassment allegations against him and his team.
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Prosecutors believe Boykov was behind an email sent from someone purporting to be a Russian hacker who was offering stolen tax agency files to local media.
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Bush showed slides purporting to be him searching under desks for the pretext for a war that killed hundreds of thousands of people, with running commentary.
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Rubino also had a document called "N****r Owner's Manual," containing racist material and purporting to be an instruction manual for owning a slave, authorities said.
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One key finding of the report was that foreign actors have created fake social media accounts purporting to be American veterans who work at veterans organizations.
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Also, because of an editing error, an earlier version quoted three posts from an unverified Twitter account purporting to be Mr. Flynn's, responding to the resignation.
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Phishing, when successful, tricks the user into unwittingly handing over their passwords to the scammer, often through professional-looking emails purporting to be from trustworthy businesses.
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When the campaign received an email purporting to be an official note of congratulations from President Putin, I was asked how we could verify it was real.
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On Tuesday, Facebook's Gleicher said a website purporting to be set up by Russia's IRA published a list of Instagram accounts which they claimed to have created.
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You might remember last April when director Jordan Peele and BuzzFeed released a deepfake video purporting to be a public service announcement from former President Barack Obama.
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Shortly after his disappearance a local newspaper ad purporting to be from Xiao himself said he hadn't been abducted but was seeking medical treatment "outside the country".
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A statement purporting to be from Brigade 30 said it had closed the field "due to the lack of response by Libyan officials to our repeated demands".
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There have been reports of people getting calls from someone purporting to be with the government and that to get the new card, money has to be paid.
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An official Taliban account on Twitter posted an undated photograph purporting to be of Akhundzada, informally known as Mullah Haibatullah, with a white turban and long, graying beard.
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The Russian social media post, purporting to be a leaked internal railway operator's report, said that British fan detained by police had seized the police officer's service pistol.
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More and more images purporting to be leaked iPhone 8 parts and schematics have been coming out over the past few weeks to back all of this up.
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The swindle involves calls from people purporting to be Internal Revenue Service agents threatening to arrest or deport consumers if they don't immediately pay taxes they supposedly owe.
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Someone purporting to be Wendi Deng Murdoch, the former wife of media mogul Rupert Murdoch, is fleecing thousands of dollars from hundreds of unsuspecting Instagram influencers and photographers.
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This includes the denial of expert guidance; encouragement to use fake or ineffective treatments, preventions, and diagnostic techniques; and misleading content purporting to be from experts or authorities.
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Voters across Indiana who filed absentee ballots last month have been receiving text messages purporting to be from President Trump — and claiming their votes have not been registered.
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" The Department of Homeland Security's computer emergency readiness team distributed a related warning cautioning individuals "to be wary of calls or emails purporting to be from Equifax agents.
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And in nearby Orange County, an online article purporting to be from a local newspaper claimed the coronavirus outbreak had spread into the Newport-Mesa Unified School District.
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"Jewish Labour MPs have been subject to appalling levels of abuse, including anti-Semitic death threats from individuals purporting to be supporters of Mr Corbyn," the report said.
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" The Department of Homeland Security's computer emergency readiness team distributed a related warning cautioning individuals "to be wary of calls or emails purporting to be from Equifax agents.
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"Many of us have suffered abuse from fellow community members for questioning the medical authorities," reads an unsigned letter in the pamphlet purporting to be from its founder.
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Kanye West still shops at bodegas, apparently In the clip's most bizarre scene, a figure purporting to be Kanye West struts into the bodega in some suitably spacey sneakers.
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Though purporting to be "experts" on Islam, these individuals presented heavily biased and often factually inaccurate information to the public that often veered into outright bigotry and conspiracy theories.
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Last week, a hoax letter purporting to be from Fink claimed the fund manager would require companies it owns to align their businesses with measures to counter climate change.
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The Associated Press report includes five military spouses who were targeted on February 10, 2015, by a group purporting to be a hacking group tied to ISIS, the CyberCaliphate.
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Microsoft said it had identified fake websites purporting to be from two conservative think tanks — the International Republican Institute and the Hudson Institute — and taken them offline last week.
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The stories were an example of a proliferation of fake news reports during the election year, often disseminated through websites purporting to be news outlets and quoting bogus sources.
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Photographs posted by the Islamic State's media wing, purporting to be from the scene, show large pools of blood smeared across the floor and bodies akimbo by upturned chairs.
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In a series of now-deleted comments, a Redditor purporting to be a lighting technician on "Joker" wrote that Joaquin Phoenix gave the entire film crew personalized wrap gifts.
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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued an alert Thursday warning consumers to beware of phone calls from individuals purporting to be Equifax representatives asking for account or personal information.
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A video posted on a local Facebook page purporting to be of the kidnapped group of 22 men, implied that the abduction was carried out by a vigilante group.
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Kem had no idea that she was being targeted when she opened an email purporting to be from a researcher at LICADHO, one of Cambodia's most prominent human rights groups.
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An image hit purporting to be the next Inspire which seems to suggest the drone will keep its sleek shape, quick change rotor clips, carbon fiber arms and wide stance.
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But the Riches' story isn't just about conspiracy theorists — it's about a conspiracy of Fox News contributors who concocted a lie while purporting to be trying to find Seth's killer.
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The claims were part of a proliferation of false news reports during the U.S. presidential election campaign, often disseminated through websites purporting to be news outlets and quoting bogus sources.
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"We are looking for friendship because we are fighting for the same reasons," someone purporting to be with an online group calling itself Blacktivist wrote via Twitter to the Rev.
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In Venezuela, radical opponents of the government have made accounts purporting to be political figures for the purposes of spreading misinformation, but mostly have been used to promote innocuous political events.
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MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - A man purporting to be a Boko Haram fighter said the Islamist militant group plans to bomb Nigeria's capital, Abuja, in a video seen by Reuters on Saturday.
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There was no confirmation from President Nicolas Maduro's government, though videos and photos on social media purporting to be from Cumana showed National Guard troops confronting crowds swarming round damaged shops.
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The authenticity of the audio clip, purporting to be from Abu Muhammad al-Adnani and distributed on Saturday by Twitter accounts that usually publish Islamic State statements, could not be verified.
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In most cases, with close scrutiny of the language, it is possible to tell if an email purporting to be from a colleague is in fact a spoofing email, said Belani.
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Cached versions of the Play Store page for Spy Tracker, for example, had several reviews purporting to be from people who had installed it on their spouses' phones without their consent.
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One story is a first-person account of the 2012 shooting at Perry Hall High School in Baltimore, by a user purporting to be a student who was then in attendance.
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Some of the websites had issues with lack of email authentication, according to the OTA, which lets cyber criminals send out phishing emails, fake emails purporting to be from a company.
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PARIS (Reuters) - France's central bank on Tuesday said there had been an increase in phishing attempts using its name and logo and email addresses purporting to be Bank of France ones.
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Shaheen's staff received a phone call last November from someone purporting to be calling from Latvia trying to set up a call to discuss Russian sanctions, according to The Daily Beast.
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The fake news stories were an example of a proliferation of false reports during the U.S. election campaign, often disseminated through websites purporting to be news outlets and quoting bogus sources.
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After surfacing on Reddit, an image purporting to be a self portrait snapped by Ms. Ocasio-Cortez has made the rounds online, including on the right-wing site The Daily Caller.
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An athletic profile purporting to be of Bizzack's son falsely said he was a nationally ranked volleyball player and included a photo of another person playing the sport, according to court documents.
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Along with the falsified reviews purporting to be from actual customers, the FTC also alleged that the company made "false and unsubstantiated claims" for the pills known as Quality Encapsulations Garcinia Cambogia.
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Around the same time, a message purporting to be from the culprits behind the maybe-ransomware attack surfaced — demanding 100 bitcoin in exchange for a key they say can unlock encrypted files.
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Identity thieves often operate by sending taxpayers so-called "phishing" emails or text messages purporting to be from the IRS and containing links that, if clicked, will transmit identity details to criminals.
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A fake Twitter account purporting to be the new ministry's urged Germans to "take a walk in the German forest, listen to the birds, reflect and feel your bond with the Heimat".
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The FBI's report puts more statistical weight behind the argument that the 2016 election coincided with an increase in hate crimes, including by those purporting to be supporters of President Donald Trump.
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DES MOINES — The Des Moines Register spiked its poll Saturday night, but by the next day it seemed most reporters here had seen the numbers — or something purporting to be the numbers.
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First, a user receives an email purporting to be from Facebook, warning them that their Facebook page was flagged by an unspecified "third party" and is at risk of being taken down.
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Branson wrote that six months ago, after an elaborate set-up involving a note on fake government notepaper, he spoke on the phone to someone purporting to be Defence Secretary Michael Fallon.
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A scammer purporting to be from Microsoft technical support accidentally called New Zealand Police, trying to get access to the officer's computer via remote access program TeamViewer — a unfortunately common PC support scam.
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Local Minneapolis-based station KARE 11 reports it received a letter purporting to be from Jake Thomas Patterson, 53, who allegedly abducted the 13-year-old Jayme from her Barron home last Oct.
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A woman purporting to be Otis's cousin later wrote to the family to say Otis was "love hungry" after the loss of a husband and child and that she would care for Mary.
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Although there was no data to show who might have been targeted, the researchers noted that the malicious app was served from fake sites purporting to be cell carriers in Italy and Turkmenistan.
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The report comes a day after a fake letter purporting to be from asset management company Blackrock promising a dramatic pullout from investing in fossil fuel companies sparked debate about environmentally responsible investment.
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A statement issued by army spokesman Sani Usman said the footage showed that the man purporting to be Shekau was "unstable" and came as "another sign that the end is near for him".
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It also includes a few emails purporting to be an exchange between the author and an editor in Spain, as well as references to Thomas More's "Utopia," Galileo and the Aztec emperor Cuauhtémoc.
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In a sketch purporting to be a TV broadcast from a raucous, revelry-filled Republican locker room, Heidi Gardner played the CNN correspondent Dana Bash, quizzing various senators who were cheering Kavanaugh's appointment.
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Agari, which provides email security using DMARC, found that just under 57 percent of the emails purporting to be from any of the more than 85033,911 health-care websites it protects were fraudulent.
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A group purporting to be affiliated with the Islamic State issued a bloody video in late February, showing ethnic Uighur fighters training in Iraq, killing prisoners, and vowing to plant their flag in China.
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In one case, emails purporting to be from Migrant Helpline - a genuine charity supporting migrants - were sent to individuals and businesses with a link containing malware to steal banking details, the Charity Commission said.
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The Comet Ping Pong case was one example of a proliferation of fake news reports during the election year, often disseminated through websites purporting to be news outlets and quoting unnamed or bogus sources.
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The threat of doctored videos purporting to be real news clips drew national attention earlier this year after comedian Jordan Peele and BuzzFeed released a viral video that turned out to be a ruse.
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The threat of doctored videos purporting to be real news clips drew national attention earlier this year after comedian Jordan Peele and BuzzFeed released a viral video that turned out to be a ruse.
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The previous year, a man purporting to be a key Taliban figure in peace talks collected tens of thousands of dollars in payments from the Afghan government before he was exposed as an impostor.
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They received an email from a person purporting to be Murdoch, offering them a job to photograph local areas of Southeast Asia for a photo exhibit she was putting together around the Beijing Winter Olympics.
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If someone purporting to be Nakamoto were to move one of those coins to a different address or sign something with keys that only Satoshi has, that would be a pretty good form of verification.
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Hoax apology posted to Facebook yesterday by a fake account purporting to be Press Secretary Sean Spicer (Screenshot via Twitter/Facebook)22009) Did Sean Spicer say that Hitler didn't use chemical weapons on "fellow Germans"?
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The article also reported that Aymenn Jawad al-Tamimi, an independent Syria researcher, had reviewed eight receipts purporting to be from the Islamic State and concluded that they did not appear to have been forged.
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Tech Tip Q. With phishing email, I can forward the message to the authorities, but how do you officially report those obvious phone scams from robot voices purporting to be from the Internal Revenue Service?
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"There's certainly references to conversations he purportedly had with someone who was purporting to be someone who was underage, whether that was reasonable to believe or not is something we'll have to explore," Smith said.
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"It is unconscionable -- and illegal -- that officials purporting to be leaders in sport knowingly hid reports of child sexual abuse," lawyers representing over 200 survivors of Nassar's abuse said in a statement obtained by CNN.
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B'Tselem, in a statement, said that Mr. Nawajah reported to the Palestinian Authority that a Palestinian citizen of Israel, "purporting to be a land dealer," was trying to sell land partly owned by Mr. Nawajah's family.
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Fake messages purporting to be from Facebook have been flying around the internet for years, so it is also possible you received a phishing attempt urging you to supply your account information to a fraudulent site.
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Cruz's campaign insisted that the email was not from the Texas senator's campaign, despite the email using an image of Cruz and his campaign logo and purporting to be from the Hawaii arm of his campaign.
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" In the 115-year history of the organization, according to the JNF's website, they have planted over 250 million trees, created numerous national parks, and have undertaken many projects purporting to be "green" and "environmentally friendly.
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A late Roman manuscript written in Syriac dated to as early as the second or third century CE and purporting to be an eyewitness account of the magi's journey claimed that there were twelve or more.
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Shortly after GoDaddy's tweet publicizing its decision to boot the domain within 24 hours, a post appeared on the Daily Stormer website purporting to be from hacker collective Anonymous, claiming to have taken over the site.
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It takes Alan from purporting to be Julia's voice, to speak on her behalf as though she doesn't have thoughts of her own (a particularly dangerous tendency with autism), to being just a friend respecting her wishes.
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The circumstances are murky, and a Medium post by someone purporting to be Sherry Spencer claims Gersh attempted to strong-arm her into selling the property—though the emails from Gersh she made public appear innocuous enough.
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In an article published Tuesday, The Washington Post reported that a framed copy of a cover purporting to be from PEOPLE's sister publication was hung up in at least four of Trump's golf clubs around the world.
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That appointment was later dismissed in a 10-minute audio clip on social media by a man purporting to be Shekau, exposing divisions within the jihadist group that has plagued Nigeria and neighbors Chad, Niger and Cameroon.
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Podesta -- who did not work for the government at the time, but communicated with important figures in government and politics -- clicked a link in an innocuous-looking email, purporting to be a password-reset prompt from Google.
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The Middle Eastern news outlet Al Bawaba also reported last year that a page purporting to be ISIS's Amaq News Agency had been openly posting videos and press releases for months with no discernible intervention by Google.
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In one example described in the report, people in Europe's worst-affected country, Italy, had received fake emails from an account purporting to be a WHO official, which included a Trojan called Trickbot which steals confidential information.
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He featured in his circus an allegedly 220006 year-old slave woman who purportedly suckled George Washington, an animal purporting to be the Cardiff monster, and an alleged mermaid in whose existence many were prepared to believe.
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The logic: It was the old, win-at-all costs company that London banned, and it's the new, friendly, do-the-right-thing company that Uber is purporting to be that a court has granted a license.
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Bulgarian Kristian Boykov was arrested on Tuesday, a day after the country's biggest ever data breach came to light in emails to local media from someone purporting to be a Russian hacker and offering stolen tax agency files.
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" In a video posted by user AnonIntelGroup purporting to be part of Anonymous, the masked figure says: "We once had a great deal of respect for you—we admired your art, your rage, your vision and your haircut.
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But that appointment was later dismissed in a 10-minute audio clip on social media by a man purporting to be Shekau, exposing divisions within the jihadist group that has plagued Nigeria and neighbors Chad, Niger and Cameroon.
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Much of the content is then reproduced by a range of alternative media sites, including some of those identified by FireEye last week as being run by Iran while purporting to be domestic American or British news outlets.
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The April tweet followed the release by Daniels' lawyer, Michael Avenatti, of a sketch purporting to be of a man who Daniels says threatened her in 2011 regarding her claims that she had a relationship with Trump years earlier.
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In response, some local governments have introduced regulations requiring food purporting to be halal to be just that (though not going into detail of what halal means, such as the slaughter of animals with a knife by a Muslim).
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He told BuzzFeed News that a Facebook user purporting to be Matt Skiber — who prosecutors claim was a persona invented by the Kremlin-linked Internet Research Agency — contacted him, first via Facebook's private messaging feature, and then via phone.
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Police also said they put six people under investigation in the southern Puglia region and seized 7,000 tonnes of olive oil purporting to be the Italian "extra virgin" variety which is prized for its rich taste and health benefits.
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How many times have you received an unsolicited dick pic purporting to be a gift from the heavens, when down on Earth it looks more like the half-chewed frankfurter that your dog dragged in from next-door's barbecue?
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No faction has claimed responsibility, but the police believe that the threats came from people purporting to be part of the U.V.F. Two men have been questioned in connection to the crime, on suspicion of membership in the group.
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In some cases, Kalember said, criminals even follow up with phone calls to the victim buyers, purporting to be from a representative for the title company or seller's law office, and reassuring them the wire transfer request is real.
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Guccifer 2.0 — who claims to be the hacker behind the breach — posted a file purporting to be a database of Clinton Foundation donors who had made large contributions and a dossier of ways to defend her against political attacks.
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Guccifer 28500 -- who claims to be the hacker behind the breach -- posted a file purporting to be a database of Clinton Foundation donors who had made large contributions and a dossier of ways to defend her against political attacks.
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On social media, Islamic State supporters celebrated the high death toll and posted a series of images, one showing a beach purporting to be that of Nice with white stones arranged to read "IS is here to stay" in Arabic.
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A phone call on Wednesday only complicated the case, the Courant reports: Someone purporting to be one of the missing family members reached out to police but did not report to law enforcement with proof of their identity, as asked.
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An anonymous blog post in November 2014 purporting to be from the developer claims ByLock had attracted around 1 million users, making it difficult to maintain, in part because the app had come under attack from unnamed "Middle East countries".
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Arrested on the graft charges early last year, Bonilla was charged with operating a network from 2011 to 2015 that cashed over 70 checks purporting to be legitimate transactions that in part were meant to purchase shoes for poor students.
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This whole episode seems to have kicked off with a report from The Hollywood Reporter, that Iger told ABC employees at a town hall in New York that someone was purporting to be a hacker and attempting to extort the company.
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One group, Veterans Against Terrorism, has swung in behind the campaign, while supporters, many purporting to be current or former soldiers, have tweeted the #IAmSoldierX hashtag more than 40,22018 times and posted more than 1,000 pictures with the hashtag to Instagram.
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Andreas Schmidt-Colinet, an emeritus professor at the Institute of Classical Archaeology at Vienna University, said he had seen images online purporting to be of funeral reliefs from Palmyra, the ancient city in Syria now controlled by the Islamic State.
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And beyond what's regulatorily actionable, Arisebank's website—since wiped clean—made a number of other outlandish claims, purporting to be a bank, a no-fee trading platform, an operator of physical ATMS, and a creditor with a partnership with Visa.
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Police said they were considering whether to investigate thousands of text messages sent to voters on Saturday by the Labor Party purporting to be from the state healthcare service Medicare, warning the service would be privatized by a coalition government.
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Though it was done in fun, the fact that the CEOs of Goldman Sachs, Citigroup and Barclays – not to mention the head of the Bank of England – recently responded to prank emails purporting to be from colleagues underlines the human factor.
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The New York City Fire Department (FDNY) said it reviewed a 22019chan post purporting to be from a first responder detailing the death of accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein more than 30 minutes before it was made public, BuzzFeed News reported.
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Over the next 2 1/2 years, the Internet Research Agency, the group that conducted Russian intelligence's social media misinformation operation during the 2016 election, promoted the conspiracy theories under accounts purporting to be American citizens or organizations, according to Yahoo.
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But I certainly did not set out last week to achieve viral notoriety and blow up my Twitter mentions for the rest of time by purporting to be some kind of global expert on a 13-year-old sitcom finale.
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Under his proposal, carriers would be able to identify the phone numbers that blasted Americans with calls purporting to be from the student loan collection agencies, vacation time-share services and other bogus services that target consumers, often for financial gain.
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Here's the deal ... reps for Bhad Bhabie were contacted by people purporting to be from the office of Peter Woo -- a billionaire Chinese businessman -- offering her a massive payday to make a quick speech at a charity event in Hong Kong.
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In 1984, he published a book purporting to be a memoir, "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind," in which he made the claim that while he was producing game shows, he was secretly working as an international assassin for the CIA.
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Even before he joined the administration, Flynn followed at least five Twitter accounts purporting to be U.S.-based Trump supporters but were actually run out of Kremlin-backed troll factory the Internet Research Agency, The Daily Beast reported on Wednesday.
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A screenshot of the FBI's indictment of Su. The scheme worked like this: one of the military officers would send phishing emails to individuals at the target companies, usually purporting to be from a colleague or someone else in the industry.
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On Tuesday, Dr. Albert Kuperman, the former dean of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine where Kathleen had been enrolled, testified that he received a call 35 years ago from a woman purporting to be her — a day after she went missing.
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In the video, a man purporting to be Baghdadi appeared to be wearing a casual outfit, sitting on the ground next to an assault rifle, he referenced contemporary events, including the deadly Easter Bombings in Sri Lanka, which ISIS claimed to have inspired.
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Previous reporting, public statements, and Mueller's 2018 indictment against GRU officers had already established that in the months leading up to the 2016 election, GRU officers had created Gmail accounts purporting to be from VR Systems, a Florida-based voter registration company.
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MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - A man purporting to be the leader of Nigerian Islamist militant group Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau, denied the jihadist group has been pushed out of its stronghold in the Sambisa forest, but the army said the base had been captured.
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News employees asking to use a fake photo of a shark purporting to be from Hurricane Matthew (Screenshot on Twitter)Thankfully we haven't seen these social media hoaxes make it to mainstream news sites yet, but it's only a matter of time.
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Trend Micro discovered that another batch of apps on the Play Store purporting to be "beauty" filter programs contained code that allowed its developers to steal photos: These apps seemingly allows users to "beautify" their pictures by uploading them to the designated server.
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Yates's refusal to defend the travel ban turned her into an overnight hero on the left, while various Twitter accounts purporting to be run by rogue agency staffers remain popular, despite the lack of proof that they're actually run by dissident staffers.
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The government said that since at least 2006, Mr. Chun and some of his relatives had relationships with Chinese nationals purporting to be affiliated with Kolion, and they had asked him to carry out research and consulting tasks in the United States.
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"It seems to be that the Commonwealth isn't a particularly sensible remit for a book prize that is purporting to be for the English language novel," said Sam Leith, a Rathbone Folio Academy member who judged the Man Booker Prize in 2015.
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By retweeting dozens of Twitter messages purporting to be from active or retired firefighters who said they support him, Mr. Trump was exploiting a Democratic vulnerability with organized labor: While union leaders almost exclusively endorse Democrats, many rank-and-file members vote Republican.
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Then came President Obama's executive actions on DACA in 2012 and DAPA in 2014, both implemented by way of memos without statutory authority, purporting to be merely an exercise of "prosecutorial discretion" but that were in reality a wholesale suspension of the law.
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BAUCHI, Nigeria (Reuters) - A man purporting to be the leader of Nigerian Islamist militant group Boko Haram denied in a video posted on Friday that 5,000 people held by the group had been freed by West African forces earlier in the week.
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CAIRO (Reuters) - An audio recording purporting to be from the Islamist militant group al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) claimed responsibility on Sunday for a fatal shooting in December at a U.S. naval base in Pensacola, Florida, but provided no evidence.
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Here's what we know about the brothel: The Aura Dolls website is purporting to be "North America's first known 'brothel' that offers sexual services with the world's most beautiful silicone ladies," a claim rival businesses, like Toronto's lesser-known KinkySdollS, have refuted on social media.
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Hoax magazine cover purporting to be from 1977 (left), actual Time magazine cover from 2008 (right)In the case of that fake 1977 Time magazine cover about a coming Ice Age, it was handed to Trump by K.T. McFarland, the deputy national security adviser.
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If that doesn't sound to you like the first hundred pages of a novel purporting to be about a pair of married spies sent to the Galápagos Islands to monitor the behavior of potentially murderous Germans in the midst of Hitler's rise, I'm not surprised.
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According to the company, it received a phishing email purporting to be from Blockchain, a popular blockchain explorer and digital wallet service, warning them that Hurricane Irma had damaged the company's servers in Florida and that their bitcoins may be at risk of becoming irretrievable.
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Greaves has frequently argued that this sovereignty is sacrosanct, even for views he finds repugnant: He has, for example, defended the right of ultra-conservative firebrand Milo Yiannopoulos to speak at California Polytechnic University after students purporting to be Satanists led a protest against him.
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LOS ANGELES — Ali Al-Ahmed is a veteran critic of the Saudi government, so late last year he was not surprised to receive a Twitter message purporting to be from an Egyptian woman living in London who said that she, too, was a Saudi opponent.
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Instead, they got a packet of assorted news clippings and conspiratorial memos about Democratic malfeasance in Ukraine that the State Department's inspector general, Steven A. Linick, said had been delivered to Mr. Pompeo earlier this year from someone purporting to be at the White House.
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What they're saying: Background: Linick said the materials were delivered to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo "earlier this year from someone purporting to be at the White House," per the Times, and "a legal adviser at the department" passed it on to Linick's office.
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A fake tweet purporting to be from Snap said it would change back if it got 50,000 retweets -- it now has over 1.3 million: The new layout debuted in November for a limited audience, but Snap has been rolling it out gradually to more people.
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Sometimes, criminals email official-looking documents purporting to be Social Security papers, and more recently they have started sending text messages that appear to be coming from the agency, urging people to call a number to resolve a "legal" problem with a Social Security number.
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Background: The conservative Austrian People's Party previously had a coalition government with the far-right Freedom Party, until its leader was caught on video attempting to trade public contracts for financial support from a woman purporting to be the niece of a Russian oligarch.
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About that ransomware: The FBI has reported on viruses in the past that send users a message purporting to be the agency and claiming their device was identified as "having been associated with child pornography sites or other illegal online activity," locking the device and requesting money.
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Homeland Security Adviser Tom Bossert responded to the email of a person purporting to be Jared Kushner, agreeing to attend a "soiree" and even volunteering his own private email address, even though Bossert's government email account appears to have flagged the prankster's message as suspected spam.
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Asked after the conference if they had received any communication or inquiries from the US government about the case, Isgren and Ny said that at the end of March, they received an email from someone purporting to be from the FBI seeking information about the case.
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"You broadcast the news and published it in your media outlets that you injured me and killed me and here I am," said a man purporting to be Shekau in a video addressed to "tyrants of Nigeria in particular and the west of Africa in general".
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At a Tuesday hearing in Los Angeles before the murder trial of real estate scion Robert Durst, a former New York doctor testified that he received a call 35 years ago from a woman purporting to be Durst's wife Kathleen — a day after she went missing.
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The extremely NSFW footage, purporting to be a mythical tape Russian intelligence services obtained of Trump watching sex workers defile a bed in a suite at the Ritz-Carlton in Moscow while he was hosting the 2013 Miss Universe Pageant, has been hovering around at PissTape.
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In the hours following the military takeover, a Twitter account purporting to be the official mouthpiece of the ruling ZANU-PF party issued a series of tweets, saying that there had not been a coup, but that Mnagngawa, a 75-year-old former freedom fighter, would now be president.
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At the conservative outlet the Daily Caller, a writer purporting to be a senior official within the Trump administration working without pay wrote that the shutdown could be an opportunity to dramatically cut down the size of the government: Most Americans will not miss non-essential government functions.
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Fortune first identified the corporate victims of the scheme last year with an investigation that revealed Rimasauskas allegedly created fake corporate stamps, email addresses, and invoices purporting to be from Quanta Computer, a Taiwan-based supplier that has worked with major tech companies including Amazon, Apple, Sony, and Verizon.
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Yet was seemingly unable (or unwilling) to use that intelligence to help protect actual lives… So when Zuckerberg invokes overarching "security purposes" as a justification for violating people's privacy en masse it pays to ask critical questions about what kind of security it's actually purporting to be able deliver.
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Just before the election, Mr. Khader, a Muslim in the Congress party, was the target of what Mangalore police said was a disturbing new type of WhatsApp attack: a series of profane audio messages purporting to be an escalating exchange of threats between Hindus and Muslims over his candidacy.
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Think of email phishing scams: While it's not uncommon for a scammer to send an email purporting to be from, say, your financial institution, most email software has gotten pretty good at flagging these types of messages so they're accompanied by a warning or go straight to your junk folder.
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It was a piece of work — proven to be a forgery almost immediately — purporting to be the meeting minutes of the leaders of the Jewish people, basically speaking like cartoon villains about their designs over the global financial system, subverting the morals of Gentiles, upturning the social fabric of moral culture.
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Clinton's campaign or the government, he was not working for a hostile government and he turned over his findings to the F.B.I. Likewise, Mr. Trump accused Mr. Warner and Mr. Schiff of double standards, saying that each of them spoke with someone "purporting to be a Russian Operative" about the president.
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A senior adviser for Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg got caught up in the Twitter rumor mill on Sunday when she was accused of running a fake account purporting to be a Nigerian supporter of the former mayor, but the person who Insider confirmed owned the account said it was a misunderstanding.
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The now-deleted tweet sent out by WikiLeaks early Monday morning purporting to be about the CIA and Donald Trump, but linking to an ad for the Ford Raptor (Screenshot)Most people would probably think that this was all a simple copy and paste error, and that we shouldn't read anything into it.
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In the January edition of an IS online magazine, a figure purporting to be a high level official in the Sinai affiliate of the group vowed to target Sufis, accusing them of idolatry and heretical "innovation" in religion and warning that the group will "not permit (their) presence" in Sinai or Egypt.
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Burckhardt is primarily known for his quirky and intelligent abstract paintings, which sometimes make use of unusual materials and occasionally incorporate representational imagery, but for "STUDIO FLOOD" he's gone all out with an elaborate architectural installation, purporting to be a painter's studio, made of bare-bones materials: cardboard and black acrylic paint.
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BAUCHI, Nigeria March 17 (Reuters) - A man purporting to be the leader of Nigerian Islamist militant group Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau, appeared in a video posted on social media on Friday in which he said it was not true that 5,000 people held by the group had been freed earlier in the week.
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A fake FBI file that has been circulating online purporting to be about Seth Rich (left) and a real FBI file obtained by Gizmodo recently about military historian Robert Dorr (right)You can see the comparison between the fake FBI file on Seth Rich (above left) with a recently obtained FBI file on military historian Robert Dorr (above right).
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Here's the deal ... reps for Donna and Krista were contacted by people purporting to be from the office of Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan -- the Deputy Prime Minister of United Arab Emirates -- offering the ladies a fat payday in exchange for speaking at an economic empowerment convention for small business owners in July and rubbing elbows with dignitaries.
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On Tuesday, the Sichuan police also issued a letter, purporting to be from one of Mr. Zhang's detained brothers, Zhang Wei, in which Zhang Wei said that the family had urged Zhang Ping to stop criticizing the party and that they were "very angry" with him for saying his siblings had been detained for political reasons.
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Though a palace spokesperson told People that "the lasting trademark is to prevent false branding, to avoid others purporting to be the Duchess or affiliated with her," and that Meghan had "absolutely no plans to relaunch The Tig," doing so is now certainly an option (and one that those of us looking for chia seed pudding tips are hoping she takes).
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But it's McCarthy who somewhat unexpectedly makes the biggest impression as Hank, the Warrens' neighbor whose prior indecent exposure conviction and stash of child pornography helped Nina put him away for Adam's murder all those years ago — probably wrongfully, but at this point, it's impossible to know for sure (he was released from prison when Adam, or someone purporting to be Adam, returned).
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In another Pamela Geller story purporting to be about a "Muslim father" killing a 4-year-old girl, Sands-Pingot said, "I would invite people to read the postings of young muslim men yo [sic] this blog...unbelievably threatening...and does not sound to be peaceful and merciful to me…" In October 2013, he posted a Facebook status about the Saturday Night Live character Pat.
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The group text came in from a concerned and well-meaning relative on Friday morning: a list of tips for keeping yourself safe from the coronavirus purporting to be "from Stanford," (Stanford has since responded to the widespread email, saying the information is inaccurate and not from them) including self-testing for breathing difficulties by holding your breath (debunked), and sipping water every 15 minutes (sorry, no).
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This cross-pollination of law enforcement and intelligence gathering -- this mixture of two distinct roles, one traditional for the FBI and the other novel to it, one clearly regulated by the Constitution and the other purporting to be outside of it -- tempted not only FBI agents to use the tools of spy-craft for law enforcement (even though it&aposs prohibited by the Fourth Amendment) but also Congress.
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Trump Jr. will face questioning on the Trump family's financial entanglements with Russia as well as his involvement in a controversial meeting with a woman purporting to be Russian government lawyer offering dirt on Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE.
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Here's the way it works: Someone designs a website that looks almost exactly like Bank of America's website and then emails you a message, purporting to be from Bank of America, warning you that your account is about to expire, or your information needs to be updated, and directing you to a fake site where you believe you're logging into your bank account but instead are just typing your password into a website owned by scammers.
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Facebook is overrun with fake accounts impersonating tech execs like Tim Cook, Elon Musk, and Sundar Pichai Facebook catches millions of fake accounts every quarter now, but some obvious fakes are still alive and well, Rob Price reports: There are dozens of personal profiles on the platform purporting to be tech luminaries ranging from YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki to Evan Spiegel, head of Snapchat's parent company Snap — often misleading ordinary, actual Facebook users who have crowded onto their profiles to ask questions, complain, and otherwise try to interact with them.
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