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Most scams are absurd - so absurd that one wonders how anyone falls for them at all; yet if no one falls for them, how do the scammers make money?
James Veitch
Money
Scams
No-One
Absurd
Most
Make
How
Falls
Wonders
Anyone
Them
As I've said before, free money scams are a problem.
Matthew Lesko
Problem
Money
Free
Before
Scams
Said
I committed to directing 'Catch Me If You Can' not because of the divorce component, but principally because Frank Abagnale did things that were the most astonishing scams I had ever heard.
Steven Spielberg
Me
You
Astonishing
Frank
Scams
Component
Directing
Had
Divorce
Catch
Most
Principally
Because
Were
Heard
Did
Committed
Ever
Things
One of the most popular scams is what they call account takeover. You write me a check, and I simply go online to a check-printing service and order 200 checks with your account information.
Frank Abagnale
Service
Me
You
Scams
Online
Write
Simply
Takeover
Check
Checks
Most
Call
Go
Account
Order
Information
Your
Popular
Hollywood is largely about scammers and con men. It was my main livelihood for about 25 years, and the scams were beautiful and ugly, cheap and expensive, but, wow, were there a lot of scammers.
Ben Stein
Beautiful
Ugly
Men
Scams
Wow
About
Main
Cheap
Con
Were
Years
Lot
Expensive
Hollywood
Livelihood
Largely
Being a celebrity you always get really good seats to sporting events but you never get as good seats as the photographers get. And I really love sports. So one of the scams I have going now is I want to learn sports photography so I can get better seats at a sporting event.
Drew Carey
Love
Good
You
Sports
Photography
Events
Better
Scams
Photographers
Never
Sporting Event
Learn
Always
Celebrity
Get
Going
Being
Want
Really
Event
Now
Seats
The marooned friend is one of the best-known scams, principally because it's the one that dodges the spam filter most often. It comes from someone you know but often only tangentially. It's since become - hands down - one of my favourite scams.
James Veitch
You
Become
Down
Filter
Scams
Favourite
Someone
Only
Since
Know
Most
Principally
Because
Friend
Hands
Often
Spam
History will remember the UPA-II government for its numerous scandals, scams, and corruption, probably the maximum number ever.
Naveen Patnaik
Government
History
Corruption
Remember
Will
Numerous
Scams
Scandals
Maximum
Ever
Number
My pub was full of get-rich-quick schemes that never worked - scams, pyramid schemes. People trying to find a way to get themselves out of a rut.
James Purefoy
People
Way
Out
Scams
Find
Rut
Schemes
Never
Pyramid
Get
Trying
Pub
Themselves
Worked
Full
Spoofed robocalls are often used by fraudsters to lure consumers into scams and avoid detection.
Ajit Pai
Scams
Detection
Consumers
Often
Used
Avoid
Lure
The government doesn't really prosecute for polygamy anymore, but a lot of the arrests are of groups supporting themselves through welfare scams or for child abuse. So that was all I'd really heard about polygamists.
Jeanne Tripplehorn
Government
Welfare
Scams
About
Through
Supporting
Abuse
Arrest
Heard
Lot
Child
Child Abuse
Anymore
Polygamy
Themselves
Really
Groups
When I was submitting my first novel, I had no idea that publishing scams existed. I never encountered any, but I could have - and knowing how easily I might have been taken advantage of makes me determined to protect others from falling into that trap.
Victoria Strauss
Me
First
Others
Easily
Scams
No Idea
Determined
Could
Never
Had
Taken
Advantage
Idea
Protect
Knowing
Makes
How
Falling
Been
Encountered
Existed
Any
Might
Trap
Novel
Publishing