The trademark of the Jamaican lottery phone scam is the caller's request for upfront fees to claim your prize.
And Mr. Obama is sticking by his request for additional upfront spending on infrastructure and an extension of expiring unemployment benefits.
Publishers said that Mrs. Clinton's request for an upfront payment was all the more remarkable because she presented her proposal only in circumspect hourlong meetings, not in a written proposal, and that the book's commercial potential would largely turn on the details of its contents.
While users aren't charged upfront to transfer, receive and request money from other Facebook users via Buxter, ClickandBuy takes a fee of 1.9% (or a hefty min. 2 EUR or 3 USD) when they go to withdraw money from their account.
Claire Rosenzweig, president and chief executive of the Better Business Bureau Serving Metropolitan New York, said many locator companies were operating ethically, but high-pressure sales pitches and requests for money upfront were red flags.
The deal, which includes cash and stock, would pay her about half the total upfront, said these people, who requested anonymity because the agreement had not been completed.
In the same week I went to Wisconsin, we had a client who paid us for an entire job upfront, even though we had requested only a 50 percent deposit.
Further, metadata reporting should be possible in stages with the involvement of different people and without requesting all details upfront.
One related scourge was swindlers who would "help" unsuspecting passengers into cabs and then request the entire fare upfront.
But if the rider spends more than 3 minutes at the other stops, the price could change from the upfront fare they were quoted before requesting their ride.
