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A 419 fraud; any of the various advance-fee frauds in which the scammer solicits up front payments promising large sums of money.
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A scam in which the solicitor offers large sums of money in return for a smaller up front investment.
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Someone who carries out a Nigerian scam.
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Alternative form of 419 scammer [Someone who carries out a Nigerian scam.]
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A consumer fraud that involves obtaining a relatively small amount of money from the victim in advance of some large deferred benefit, such as a job, a high rate of return, or a share of embezzled money.
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Fraud whose victims are susceptible because they trust the perpetrator as a member of their circle.
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An unscrupulous and sometimes illegal sales technique, in which an inexpensive product is advertised to attract prospective customers who are then told by sales personnel that the inexpensive product is unavailable or of poor quality and are instead urged to buy a more expensive product.
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(South Asia) Property that is transacted under the name of a proxy to conceal the identity of the buyer.
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The act of one who bilks (in any sense).
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(uncountable) The fraudulent trafficking of credit card details.
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The theft of value-added tax from a government by exploiting the way VAT is treated within multijurisdictional trading where the movement of goods between jurisdictions is VAT-free.
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(informal) A fraud; something carried out with the intention of deceiving, usually for personal, often illegal, gain.
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A swindle in which the mark, or victim, is defrauded after his or her trust has been won.
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A swindle in which the mark, or victim, is defrauded after his or her trust has been won.
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Someone who conducts a confidence game: who defrauds someone after winning his trust.
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(law) A legal fiction describing a situation where a person or entity gained an unfair advantage over another by deceitful or unfair methods. Intent does not need to be shown.
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A form of carousel fraud that evades detection by using two "carousels" of traded goods, where one carousel is legitimate and the other is not, and thus the input and output VATs neutralize each other to conceal the fraud.
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(obsolete, law) Fraud, deception.
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A victim of fraud persuaded to use his own name and information to obtain an expensive item with credit contract attached, such as a smartphone. The victim, or "mule," is paid when he gives the item to the fraudster, and he is assured the contract will be cancelled, but it is not. Thus, the victim acquires a debt while the fraudster can sell the item at a large profit.
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Exploitation of a credit mule to perform a fraud.
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(transitive) To obtain money or property from (a person) by fraud; to swindle.
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(politics) Illegal interference with the process of an election, especially with the intent to stage a desired election outcome.
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creative accounting, or accounting fraud
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(Philippines) fraud, con
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A confidence trick where an established (usually illegal) business stops shipping orders while continuing to receive payments because of its previously good reputation, and then absconds with the money.
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A snake oil salesman; one who makes exaggerated claims about a product he sells.
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A type of fraud in which someone fraudulently opens accounts or makes purchases in someone else's name, in which the victim is a close friend or family member.
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(archaic, slang) To carry out fraud by placing an advertisement offering to send a list of winners for the purpose of sports betting, and replying to interested parties by sending out vouchers similar to those sent out by respectable commission agents, but displaying double or treble the current odds. The victim is informed that on account of early investments made by the firm, the extra odds can be laid by them, and a remittance is requested. The fraudulent firm later disappears with the money.
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(law) The crime of stealing or otherwise illegally obtaining money by use of deception tactics.
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A police section specializing in fraud.
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A person who commits fraud for profit.
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economic system as a whole based on fraud
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a person who practices fraud; a swindler.
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A type of fraud in which a customer purchases and recieves an item using a credit card, then requests a spurious chargeback to get a refund, effectively gaining the item for free.
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The process whereby a product marketer falsely purports to be a market researcher conducting a statistical survey, when in reality the "researcher" is attempting to solicit a donation.
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(slang) A compilation or package of information on a prospective fraud or identity theft victim.
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(colloquial, especially Internet) A manipulator or otherwise generally corrupt person who "games" a system, group of people, or other entity for selfish gains; especially of a political "sell-out" perceived as lacking integrity.
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One who deceptively sells fraudulent products.
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The deliberate assumption of another person's identity, usually to gain access to that person's finances or to frame a person for a crime.
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Money or other property acquired dishonestly.
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(obsolete) A forger of counterfeit seals, licenses or other documents.
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(accounting) A form of fraud in which payments in the accounts are repeatedly delayed between periods, or diverted between customers, to conceal a theft.
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A scam in which the scammer takes a long period of time (usually weeks, months or longer) to defraud the victim, by first slowly gaining their trust.
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A consumer fraud that involves criminals attempting to make victims fall in love with or marry them, and tricking them into paying them money.
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(Malaysia) A scam where criminals impersonate a legal authority, a lottery, a kidnapper demanding a ransom, or a bank authority, to trick people into paying them money.
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(US) A fraudulent practice that charges the Medicaid system for unnecessary patient visits.
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The act of engaging in transactions designed to obscure the origin of money, especially money that has been obtained illegally.
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(slang, derogatory, video games) The use of unfair financial incentives; bribery.
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A cheat who seeks to obtain money through advance fee scams
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A scam in which the solicitor offers large sums of money in return for a smaller up front investment.
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(Internet) An attempt to defraud by sending out large numbers of emails, each stating that the recipient is entitled to receive a large amount of money, but will need to supply banking account details, or to send payment for fees, before the payment can be passed on.
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A person who peculates; an embezzler
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The act of circumventing security with an alias.
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The fraudulent practice of terminating a business as bankrupt while secretly using its assets to set up another business.
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A scam technique in which victims are tricked into investing large amounts of money into a fictitious brokerage (usually a cryptocurrency wallet), which actually sends their funds directly to the scammers.
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An act of innocent deceit, technically using the methods of a fraudster but for an honest, honorable purpose.
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Alternative form of Ponzi scheme [A fraudulent scheme where earlier investors are paid with the money taken from new investors, giving the impression that the scheme is a viable investment.]
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Synonym of Ponzi scheme.
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A fraudulent scheme where earlier investors are paid with the money taken from new investors, giving the impression that the scheme is a viable investment.
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An illicit money-making investment scheme whereby early investors are paid primarily or wholly by later investors. Eventually all such schemes fail to the detriment of recent (later) investors.
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An illegal scheme for profit; a fraud or swindle; or both coinstantiated.
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(linguistics) The combination of reading and auding.
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A fraudulent operation in which the fraudsters contact people who have already been scammed and offer to recover their lost money, but in fact steal more money from the victims.
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(law) The act of defrauding a retail store by means of the return process.
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A confidence trick involving feigning romantic intentions towards a victim in order to commit fraud.
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(cryptocurrencies) A fraud scheme where anonymous founders trick people into investing money for a cryptocurrency project which is then abandoned.
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In Ghana and other African countries, a form of Internet fraud involving ethnic or religious rituals supposed to aid the fraudster.
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Something that is promoted using scams.
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A person who attempts to defraud others by presenting a fraudulent offer and pretending that it is legitimate; a con artist.
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(Internet) The practice of posing as a potential victim of a scam, usually the Nigerian scam, in order to waste the scammer’s time and resources.
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(crime) The act of fraudulently copying a chip from a chip-and-pin card, such as found on credit cards and bank cards, through the use of a shimmer
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Alternative form of shortchange [To defraud someone by giving them less change than they should be given after a transaction.]
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(fraud) A social engineering scam in which a perpetrator takes over the phone number of a target.
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Somebody posing as a wealthy person of high status who has been imprisoned under a false identity; part of a confidence trick in which the mark is encouraged to give money to secure the release of the prisoner, who will then be in a position to give a reward.
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(law, Scotland, Ancient Rome) Any fraud not distinguished by a more special name; chiefly applied to sales of the same property to two different persons, or selling that for one's own which belongs to another, etc.
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A stockbroker who operates fraudulently.
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The act by which somebody is swindled.
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(business) A seemingly favorable offer designed to trick customers into making exorbitant payments.
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(finance) A type of fraud where assets and profits are transferred out of firms for the benefit of those who control them.
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(US, law) A felony of a particular class subject to a separate and additional federal penalty for any crime of fraud involving the use of technological communications methods such as wire, radio, or television.
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(Nigeria) A man who carries out 419 fraud.
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