Tali Arbel
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Tali Arbel
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Rachel Goldberg-Polin, mother of slain hostage Hersh, last night:

“In my crash course of geopolitics, I came to learn that every single thing is transactional.

“I have learned that there is a force more addictive than anything in the world, and that force is power.”
December 3, 2024 at 2:27 PM
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Scammers have found a particularly American security hole: our reliance on paper checks. On average, there were some 30 checks per person written in the U.S. in 2021, nearly twice as many as the French, the world’s second-biggest check users, according to the Fed.

www.wsj.com/finance/bank...
We Can’t Give Up Paper Checks, and That’s a Gold Mine for Scammers
Scammers are altering checks, depositing them and quickly withdrawing cash before banks flag the payments as suspicious. They frequent Telegram, a popular messaging app, Facebook and TikTok to promote...
www.wsj.com
November 19, 2024 at 2:47 PM