| The boys are right scallies, sticking two fingers up to authority and getting into every scam going. |
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| The FBI's breakthrough came after phones were tapped, and conversations overheard about recruitment difficulties for the scam. |
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| But in social security the biggest scam is people pretending to have a disability that they do not have, rather than assuming another name. |
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| The scam was only rumbled in September 2001, following an undercover police operation. |
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| When one is dealing with fraudsters and scam artists, there is almost no chance of ever getting the money back. |
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| Fraudsters and scam artists are cashing in on the generosity of the public according to Trading Standard officials. |
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| The ruse makes the IRS-themed scam more sophisticated than typical phishing attacks. |
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| The product offered is merely the excuse to legitimize the real and probably illegal moneymaking scam. |
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| Staff involved in the scam would have helped customers win using a subtle system of signs and then taken a payback from their winnings. |
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| The mobsters also ripped off two federally supervised funds that subsidize rural phone companies through another billing scam, they said. |
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| Three accomplices escaped and police fear they may try the same scam again. |
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| Trading standards watchdogs are warning businesses to be on their guard against a bogus bills scam. |
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| The masterminds of the bootleg scam evaded excise duty by substituting potable alcohol with industrial solvents such as acetone. |
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| A petty thief is seen pulling off a cheap scam on a shopkeeper by a major league con-artist who recruits him for a big job. |
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| That whole economic argument is a scam put out by people with a vested interest in keeping things going the way they are. |
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| Safety chiefs are warning businesses about a scam in which bosses are charged hundreds of pounds from a bogus health and safety organisation. |
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| But for the sleeveen's litigious scam to work, all that is needed is for the rest of us still to trust each other just enough. |
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| Sheila said the pub would continue fundraising but this year's effort had been affected by the effect of the scam. |
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| Generally there is a fraudulent realty valuation of the said realty in question as part of the scam. |
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| Those that have been on the receiving end of calls say the scam is being performed very professionally. |
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| No doubt the chancers behind this scam would later graduate to the kind of knavery witnessed at Kingston police court in the same month. |
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| Mrs Jenkins knew nothing about the scam until her bank called one evening when she returned from work. |
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| Well it's not a new technology or some great discount deal for satellite Net access or shonky scam. |
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| After setting up this micronation in 1994, the founders immediately started setting up scam passports and diplomatic papers. |
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| The seller-financed wraparound mortgage is possibly the most complex home purchase scam. |
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| I realize we weren't totally on the level, but it's not like it was an actual scam. |
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| It's a scam that includes everyone because it has the effect of appearing to benefit all and sundry. |
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| His scam ran for three years, ending in September 2001, after a sting conducted by undercover police. |
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| I just remember a scam where some twoccers started doing this and pulling over taxis and then robbing them. |
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| We recently came across a major scam of agricultural tractors stolen in England. |
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| This whole business was one big scam to rope me in, and you never planned to keep your end of the bargain. |
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| I know this is a scam right off the bat, because I'm not anyone's employee. |
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| Harry and the Contessa are called away to Venice, where an old friend has a new lead on an insurance scam. |
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| Another day, another email scam with fraudsters trying to extract sensitive information so they can thieve from people's bank accounts. |
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| These are technology-driven bubbles, not fad-fueled manias like tulips, or fraud like the South Sea scam. |
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| Victims were duped by bogus get-rich-quick schemes involving fake documents before the scam was exposed. |
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| If state laws say one thing to stop a scam, can the scammers simply move online? |
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| This blog entry discusses getting a phishing scam e-mail, and then some further logistics behind what might stop these from happening. |
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| Whoever is behind the scam is a fraud and is attempting to collect personal information. |
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| However these rules will not stop you from being scammed as a scam is more psychological than anything else. |
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| If there is an illegal immigrant scam or a marriage scam, then the department must be involved. |
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| The scam tries to trick customers into giving away confidential bank details. |
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| One need look no further than the daily newspaper to see that securities fraud is the scam du jour. |
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| Find out why the Feds are out to bust an insurance scam where the doctor pays the patient. |
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| Scam Sensor uses a proprietary heuristic algorithm to identify fraudulent e-mails. |
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| This return scam involved purchasing broken electronics off the auction site and then buying new items off store shelves. |
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| A Russian pensioner has been arrested after allegedly masterminding a scam geared to lifting the credit card number of Western tourists visiting Moscow cyber cafes. |
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| You might have heard about scam merchants offering to find grants for businesses, pocketing a fat consultancy fee and disappearing into the distance without lifting a finger. |
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| The scam letter, which has already been sent to businesses in the area, falsely claims that the addressee must register under the Data Protection Act. |
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| The Wounded Warrior Project is certainly not a scam, nor an ill-meaning charity. |
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| Reassured in his belief that Beacon International was just a scam, Fox all but forgot the entire ordeal, he told The Daily Beast. |
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| She suspected that Northup may not have been kidnapped, but had been willingly involved in a scam that had massively backfired. |
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| Chomsky rips into the scam of wiping the U.S. government's slate clean. |
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| Police have spoken of their disgust at a new fraud scam where crooks pretend to represent the Vatican and dupe the public into handing over bank details. |
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| Again, the scam depends on inside information and fudging self-reported numbers. |
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| More than most age groups, Millennials know that they are being set up for a generational scam of epic proportions. |
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| The scam involves two young men visiting a business to buy goods, then telling a sales assistant that they're calling their father to arrange payment. |
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| You would expect people they were mailshotting to live locally and be aware of the church so they could easily check if it was a scam by just ringing the vicar. |
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| Everything zips along at a brisk and comedic pace for the first half hour, with an elaborate scam to rip off a load of smuggled goods being set up. |
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| Meanwhile, Jeff's plan to scam the scammer was taking shape. |
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| One might hypothesize the maid was part of a scam to shake down any rich old man in a luxury suite. |
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| Palin, who is as likely to be running a scam as running for president, has Republicans in the inky plam of her hand. |
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| When the boom failed to materialize, eventually the scam got so large that it could no longer be hidden, and the entire house of cards came tumbling down. |
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| The scam is almost identical to one three years ago when a group of South Africans trying to con another Asian entrepreneur were caught in a police sting. |
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| The operator of a Melbourne tollway is playing down claims that the credit card details of more than half a million customers have been compromised in an internet scam. |
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| Within the vast, bright realm of cyberspace, however, lurk various tricksters and scam artists ranging from amusing to annoying or downright dangerous. |
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| He has failed to give Texans even the modicum of respect required to actively scam them. |
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| He doesn't claim unemployment benefit or try to scam the social welfare. |
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| They suspected that the provincial logistics agency was involved in an import scam, using state funds allocated to buy unhusked rice from local farmers. |
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| Gardai claim that a proposed marriage between a Corkman and a Romanian girl charged in a credit card scam is only a smokescreen to obtain a residency permit. |
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| Scam artists have become quite skilled at creating sophisticated offering statements, Crawford says. |
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| As more phishing scams continue to surface, Bank Windhoek has warned its clients against a new SMS scam also referred to as SmiShing. |
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| The plan represents an enormous business opportunity that will benefit just a few and a great scam against the majority of Panamanians. |
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| But without reporting a scam, officials don't know and can't warn others about scams until many more people have fallen victim, officials said. |
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| But postie Chris saw the signs of scam mail after receiving specialist training and was able to step in to get David help. |
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| According to the latest figures, the biggest scam related to issues around trading standards. |
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| Some victims reported being targets of various scareware or ransomware cyber intrusions immediately preceding a BEC scam request. |
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| Lars is simply pathetic, and the people who indulge him come across like patrons of a Three-card Monte scam. |
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| Separately, the indictment charges Ritter with using shares in SPAG to scam a group of foreign investors. |
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| It did not surprise him to see the man unpacking what became the scam of the century. |
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| Dave Sewell I obey speed limits and never have a worry about it, if you are so convinced it's just a money making scam Stop feeding it then Der. |
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| A THIRD arrest has been made in an investigation into a bank card scam in Kirklees. |
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| The Jesuit Matteo Ricci while staying in Nanjing wrote that Chinese scam artists were ingenious at making forgeries and huge profits. |
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| Further checks revealed the elderly woman from Leeds had received 1,500 pieces of scam mail, and had fifteen used cheque books in her home. |
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| Even if he did get charged, he would be suicided long before he could involve one of the city's most important politicians in the scam. |
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| On-going investigations into land registry misdealing are only the tip of the Cyprus property scam iceberg. |
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| But the millionaire sleazeballs, most of whom are married or with partners were horrified when they were exposed of their scam. |
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| It's an old flim-flam worthy of the sleaziest carnival sharpies or scam artist Charles Ponzi, yet most of the punsters swallow it whole. |
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| Lincoln is a reformed cardsharp, a onetime expert at the three-card monte scam. |
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| After the unsuspecting victim had already sent the money by wire, the scam artist becomes unreachable by internet. |
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| In the end, the scam artist takes off with the fee and the victim gets nothing in return. |
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| This Canadian fraudmeister moved to Europe after being nabbed in a mining-stock scam in Ontario. |
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| A BUSINESSMAN has been handed a suspended prison sentence for his part in a stairlift scam that put the lives of elderly customers at risk. |
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| A simple scam on the Ringback system is costing around 30,000 businesses with payphones thousands of pounds. |
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| It was the age-old scam of lush-roller and lush, he thought, or so it would seem. |
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| Several people stung by the scam reportedly went to the police. |
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| He recalled the one where Gypsies ran a bujo scam, promising to cleanse supposedly cursed money and filching it instead. |
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| And he told how nobbled players were ordered by crime gang bosses to get an early yellow card during games to prove they were in on the scam. |
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| In February,two Dutch companies were finedfor a typosquatting scam in which visitors were invited to enter SMS competitions to win Apple iPads. |
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| Another scam saw a launderer buy expensive insurance for a phantom ocean-going vessel. |
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| In another scam, Frankel employed a kind of bait-and-switch tactic. |
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| I will reveal some more pertaining to this scam within next few days. |
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| In the three months to the end of October 2014, almost 1500 letters have been sent to potential scam victims in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory. |
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| A GANG who became the first crooks in Scotland to be convicted of a money-laundering scam known as cuckoo smurfing were yesterday jailed for almost 10 years. |
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| Prosecutors say Triston Saltmarsh was a foot soldier in a blackmail scam designed to con the owners of small businesses out of thousands of pounds. |
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| Nesbitt is to star in a comedy drama for ITV called Big Dippers which centres on a couple of small-time criminals forever on the look-out for a quick money making scam. |
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| Ghosh averted from accusing the leaders of being involved in the Saradha Group ponzi scam, and instead suggested that police should seek their help to delve into the scam. |
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| The BJP leader was of the opinion that Raja, who is now in Tihar jail, should turn approver in the spectrum scam to spill the beans about the beneficiaries. |
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| But he was leading a double life with a Chinese nurse he had fallen for, having forged divorce papers and bigamously married her in a PS10,000 visa scam. |
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| However, the nebulous definition of a church has led to abuses which earned the corporation sole a place on the 2005 IRS Dirty Dozen tax scam list. |
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| Scampaign, a month-long Coventry Trading Standards appeal, will ask people to fight back against fraudsters by reporting any scam mail that drops through their letterbox. |
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| Rick's scam to palm her off on Huey went over like a fart in church, just like Huey had predicted. She had indignantly scolded him when he brought it up. |
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| Achronic scam victim is someone who is taken in repeatedly because they are over-trusting, socially isolated or suffer from a mental health problem such as dementia. |
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| The apex court bench said the investigating agency will also look into any other ponzi scheme involved in chit fund scam in West Bengal, besides Saradha. |
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| A fraud hotline you can call to talk to a trained volunteer for advice if you are worried you or a loved one has been scammed or if you suspect a scam in your community. |
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| Almost instantly, Pippa hooks up with local scam artist Fritz. |
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| The scam artist will profit from a senior trying to be a good grandma or grandpa, while a senior's hard earned money is stolen, along with their sense of security. |
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| Karl is a good lay but a lousy scam artist, and when he is injured after a botched sidewalk job, his work duties are taken over by a cute young garage mechanic named Rudolf. |
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| According to sources, Crime Branch officials recently got permission to interrogate Matang Sinh, who is currently in a jail in Kolkata, in connection with the Saradha scam. |
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| Attorney's Office may charge the scam artist with mail and wire fraud. |
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