The phrase "a scam for" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a fraudulent scheme or deception aimed at a specific target or purpose.
Example: "The organization was exposed as a scam for collecting donations under false pretenses."
Alternatives: "a fraud aimed at" or "a con targeting".
Public housing isn't a scam for the well-off to receive free homes.
There's no word of this guy trying to wringe Motorola for any cash, so I'm not about to declare it a scam — for all we know, he made up a story so his wife didn't think he was dumb, and things got out of control.
It's been a scam for the past five hundred years and everyone knows it.
So it seems that while Ukraine's marriage services can be a scam for Westerners, it's often the women who get a really shitty deal.
Rhode Island had essentially become a state run by criminals that, in addition to passing legislation that was actually a scam for debtors to legally pay off their debts with paper money that was virtually worthless, had become more of a haven for smugglers and other criminals than a haven for religious dissenters.
Of the packaging, press, corporation, out-for-yourself, money-for-nothing," said Michael Alig in the 1998 documentary Party Monster: The Shockumentary. "It was very American: 'Give me money because I'm fabulous because I say so.' It was great as a scam for a while, and the 80s were all about scams".
The beauty part -- which, by the way, also demonstrates what a scam these for-profit college loans are -- is that Debt Strike bought the loans for about three pennies on the dollar.
Guardian Money has been contacted by several readers asking whether the request to register their card with Visa is a scam, or for real.
Meanwhile, Chief Wiggum arrests a scam artist for telemarketing fraud.
"It's a common scam for agencies/employers that are unable to secure such a permit to bring employees to China to work illegally with non-work visas," Gary Chodorow, a prominent US-China immigration lawyer, wrote in an email.
In a dating scam, for instance, the fraudsters send pictures taken from modelling websites.
