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scam baiting — (SKAM bay.ting) pp. Teasing a scam artist particularly someone running the Nigerian advance fee fraud scheme by feigning interest in the scam and forcing the scammer to perform silly or time wasting tasks. Also: scam baiting. scam baiter n.… … New words
Scam — 1. illegal or unscrupulous business operation; racket; 2. swindle; confidence trick; 3. current, relevant information: What s the scam? ; 4. orchestrate an illegal or unscrupulous business or deal; 5. cheat or swindle (someone) … Dictionary of Australian slang
scam — Australian Slang 1. illegal or unscrupulous business operation; racket; 2. swindle; confidence trick; 3. current, relevant information: What s the scam? ; 4. orchestrate an illegal or unscrupulous business or deal; 5. cheat or swindle (someone) … English dialects glossary
Scam genealogical book — The popularity of genealogy, encouraged by the increasing use of the Internet is encouraging a number of people to mass market what authorities regard as scam genealogical books which are sometimes promoted by affiliated websites. They tend to… … Wikipedia
scam — 1) n a deception, fraud, swindle or confi dence trick. This Americanism entered fashionable British usage around 1977, subsequently becoming fairly wide spread, particularly in business par lance. Scampery was British slang for a highway robbery… … Contemporary slang
scam — Synonyms and related words: ballot box stuffing, beat, beguile of, bilk, bunco, burn, cardsharping, cheat, cheating, chisel, chouse, chouse out of, cog, cog the dice, con, cozen, cozenage, crib, defraud, diddle, diddling, dishonesty, do in, do… … Moby Thesaurus
Fodder Scam — The Fodder Scam involved hundreds of millions of dollars in alleged fraudulent reimbursements from the treasury of Bihar state for fodder, medicines and husbandry supplies for non existent livestock. The Fodder Scam (Devanagari: चारा घोटाला,… … Wikipedia
White van speaker scam — Not to be confused with White van man. A fraudulent MSRP and product tag on an Image Reference Model IA 1901 speaker system … Wikipedia
Miracle cars scam — The miracle cars scam was an advance fee fraud that ran from 1997 to 2002. It was one of the largest advance fee frauds in world history, as well as the largest automobile fraud in American history. In its run of just over four years, over 4,000… … Wikipedia
Black money scam — The black money scam, sometimes also known as the wash wash scam , is a scam where con artists attempt to fraudulently obtain money from a victim by persuading him or her that piles of banknote sized paper in a trunk or a safe is really money… … Wikipedia
Strip search prank call scam — The McDonald s strip search scam was a series of incidents occurring for roughly a decade before an arrest was made in 2004. These incidents involved a man calling a restaurant or grocery store, claiming to be a police detective, and convincing… … Wikipedia
