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The phrase "a scam of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a fraudulent scheme or deception that is characterized by a specific type or aspect.
Example: "The organization was exposed as a scam of the highest order, preying on vulnerable individuals."
Alternatives: "a type of scam" or "a form of scam".
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It's a scam, of course.
If someone offers you a "great" opportunity, it's almost certainly a scam of some kind.
Listen to such voices, and you might think that venerable old Shell has cooked up a scam of Enron proportions.Just consider the mess.
During a demonstration outside the British consulate in July, protesters held up placards reading: "Home is where the fraud is" and "A scam of two cities".
Joel Unger, an Uber driver in the San Francisco Bay Area who runs a popular forum for drivers on Facebook, called the settlement a "scam of epic proportions" in a message to the Guardian.
Takeshi Kovacs, the all-but-indestructible galactic mercenary whom Morgan so memorably introduced in "Altered Carbon," is back, this time on an archaeological dig that triggers a scam of truly cosmic proportions.
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It's not actually much cheaper in duty free anyway – it's a bit of a scam on travellers.
Mandarin Trading later sued the Wildensteins for fraud, alleging that it was the victim of a scam to inflate the value of the painting.
It's a scam 99% of us would have probably fallen for.
An investigation began into a complicated scam of the early 1990s, the Goldenberg affair, in which perhaps a billion dollars were lost.
The case of Michele Calderoni was a model scam of what one reporter called "the Verdiglione method"..
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