Scams and Confidence Tricks

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Scams and confidence tricks
Terminology Confidence trick • Error account • Shill • Sucker list
Notable scams and
confidence tricks 		Advance fee fraud • Art student scam • Badger game • Bait-and-switch • Black money scam • Bogus escrow • Boiler room • Charity fraud • Clip joint • Coin rolling scams • Drop swindle • Embarrassing cheque • Employment scams • Fiddle game • Fine print • Foreclosure rescue scheme • Forex scam • Fortune telling fraud • Get-rich-quick scheme • Green goods scam • Hustling • Intellectual property scams • Kansas City Shuffle • Long firm • Miracle cars scam • Mock auction • Patent safe • Pig in a poke • Pigeon drop • Ponzi scheme • Pump and dump • Pyramid scheme • Reloading scam • Shell game • Slavery reparations scam • Spanish Prisoner • Strip search prank call scam • Swampland in Florida • Teaser rate • Telemarketing fraud • The McDonald's strip search scam • Thai gem scam • Thai tailor scam • Thai zig zag scam • Three-card Monte • Trojan horse • White van speaker scam • Work-at-home scheme
Internet scams and
countermeasures 		Advance-fee fraud • Avalanche (phishing group) • Click fraud • Computer crime • CyberThrill • DarkMarket • Domain slamming • E-mail authentication • E-mail fraud • El Gordo de la Primitiva Lottery International Promotions Programmes • Employment scams • Internet vigilantism • Lottery scam • PayPai • Phishing • Referer spoofing • Ripoff Report • Rock Phish • Romance scam • Russian Business Network • Safernet • Scam baiting • ShadowCrew • Spoofed URL • Spoofing attack • Stock Generation • Web-cramming • Whitemail
Pyramid and
Ponzi schemes 		Dona Branca • Caritas • Bernard Cornfeld • Foundation for New Era Philanthropy • High-yield investment program • Investors Overseas Service • Bernard Madoff • MMM • Make Money Fast • Petters Group Worldwide • Reed Slatkin • Scott W. Rothstein • Stanford Financial Group
Confidence tricks in media Books and literature • Fictional con artists • Television and movies
See also: List of real-life con artists, List of confidence tricks, List of Ponzi schemes
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