Some in the press have described our actions using words like "scam," "scheme," "con," "racket," "flimflam," "shakedown," "bunco," "swindle," "grift," "hoodwink," "ol' mountebank payola," "hornswoggle," "dupe," "chicanery," and "bamboozle," and it's not really our place to disagree with those assessments.
A brief summary of 419 scam schemes was presented by Buchanan and Grant [3] indicating that Internet growth has facilitated the spread of cyber fraud.
It feels akin to how early eBay became bogged down with identikit mass production inventory and a playbook of bidding scam schemes.
But cops merrily on the take and showbiz folk scheming scams, or scamming schemes, are subjects that haven't grown whiskers yet.
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.
Even by the standards of Internet scams, the scheme is brazen.
Not that there was much they could have done; if the scammers wait and cash out the accounts all at one time, scam protection schemes are ineffective, especially when the accounts had all had the withdraw limits removed so they could be emptied completely.
The rest is lost to scams and schemes by warlords, gangs, criminals, truck drivers, and even the needy, who apply for aid from multiple groups and then set up little businesses to sell off the surplus.
The dead zone of the title is at Seventy-second and Broadway; the core of the city seems rotted by the desperate scams and schemes of hustlers in need of a fix and by the law's corrupting force (embodied by Alan Vint, as a soft-spoken, streetwise detective).
Scams and schemes abound in commodity trading but Ms Kelly does not even come close to proving that consumers or end-users are systematically overcharged, or producers defrauded, or that the traders use their political heft to evade justice.The author's grasp of events farther afield is shaky too.
By cutting the 99%'s ability to protect themselves from scams and schemes, the 1% are better able to prey on them.
