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