A selection of interesting items for today
Civil Registration is Shaping World’s Largest Election Year With 76 Nations Going to the Polls
Google sues two crypto app makers over allegedly vast “pig butchering” scheme
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Civil Registration is Shaping World’s Largest Election Year With 76 Nations Going to the Polls
BANGKOK, Thailand, Apr 5 2024 (IPS) – Over four billion people will take to the polls in 2024 as 76 countries are set to hold elections. In Asia, this includes populous countries such as Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, and Russia.
These elections range from the world’s largest multi-day legislative election in India, to Indonesia, where the biggest single-day vote took place for the presidential poll in February. These elections will have lasting impacts for many years to come.
Google sues two crypto app makers over allegedly vast “pig butchering” scheme
The tech giant has alleged that scammers lured victims with “promises of high returns” from “seemingly legitimate” apps offering investment opportunities in cryptocurrencies and other products. Commonly known as “pig-butchering schemes,” these scams displayed fake returns on investments, but when users went to withdraw the funds, they discovered they could not.
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The Far End of the Earth
Sunok Yoon moved to Canada from South Korea to escape an abusive husband and a controlling mother. She is a rising star in Toronto’s Korean community, but online she is the master of an intricate internet scam known as “Butchering the Pig.”
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