Sentence examples for called scam from inspiring English sources

But one victim, Shawn Mosch of Bloomington, Minn., who with her husband started an advocacy group called Scam Victims United (scamvictimsunited.com), estimated that she had heard about more than 500 cases since November.

We were kicked off campuses, locked out of administrative offices, and called scam artists.

In a year of T-shirts -- emblazoned with classic comic book frames and hoodies with vintage Disney characters, a Los Angeles company called Scam-Co has gone one step further, producing tanks and T-shirts bearing small, strange advertisements that used to appear in the backs of comic books.

In 1998 the A&E cable channel ran a program called Scams, Schemes & Scoundrels highlighting Van Meegeren's life and art forgeries, many of which had been confiscated as Nazi loot.

Rachel Maddow tore into members of the conservative media on her Monday MSNBC show for what she called "scamming" gullible members of their own party who donate to various Super PACs.

"It is a complete Ponzi scheme," says Surjit Bhalla, an economist with Oxus Fund Management in Delhi, and a long-term campaigner for an overhaul of what he calls "scam savings".The worry is not just the cost to the states.

Foss described one popular calling scam making the rounds: The caller tells people that their son or daughter -- or doctor -- just ordered them a Medic Alert system.

Nigerian scam [1], also called '419 scam' as a reference to the 419 section in the Nigerian penal code [2], has been a known problem for several decades.

This scam, commonly called "door scamming", works about 50-70% of the time, usually because the victim doesn't check the name of the Habbo that they are trading to.

But unlike law schools, veterinary school is not regularly being called a scam or bubble.

If a firm of headhunters specialising in football were to be established (called, say, SCAM) then this might be achieved.