• An overpayment scam, also known as a refund scam, is a type of confidence trick designed to prey upon victims' good faith. In the most basic form, an...
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    The tarmac scam is a confidence trick in which criminals sell fake or shoddy tarmac (asphalt) and driveway resurfacing. It is particularly common in Europe...
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  • Scams and confidence tricks are difficult to classify, because they change often and often contain elements of more than one type. Throughout this list...
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  • electoral fraud Confidence tricks, including: romance scams, larceny, overpayment scams and advance-fee scams Mail robbery and package theft rings Truck theft...
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    Work Permits, Overpayment, and Money-Laundering Archived 2013-10-21 at the Wayback Machine," United States Department of State "ROMANCE SCAMS Archived 2008-09-26...
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  • Kapa-Community Ministry International and its executives, citing an investment scam. President Rodrigo Duterte was the first government official to announce...
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  • Confidence trick IRS impersonation scam Overpayment scam Scambaiting Technical support scam "This is what a Social Security scam sounds like". Consumer Information...
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  • increase their credit rating. Overpayment fraud – One of the most popular scams making the rounds. A generous overpayment is made to the victim typically...
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  • the origin of scam letters date. The oldest reference to the origin of scam letters could be found at the Spanish Prisoner scam. This scam dates back to...
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  • A rent-sangla scam, also known as rent-tangay scam, is a confidence trick that began to be performed in the Philippines in early 2017. According to local...
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  • stated that "Morton's self-proclaimed psychic powers were nothing more than a scam to attract investors and steal their money." In 2016, Morton and his wife...
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    the same bank, or a direct-deposit chargeback in order to recover an overpayment. Merchant error – A merchant may improperly debit a customer's account...
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    net gain but will be worse off than anticipated. However, an actual overpayment will generally occur only if the winner fails to account for the winner's...
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    strategyproof and minimum. In 2004, it was shown that the expected VCG overpayment of an Erdős–Rényi random graph with n nodes and edge probability p, G...
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    of scams related to cryptocurrency, is said to be putting a regulatory timeline in place that will produce a regulatory framework. The largest scam occurred...
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    individual, and who fails to complete such agreement, solely liable for the overpayment of such educational assistance. H.R. 297 January 13, 2021 (No short title)...
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    distributed by the machine for overpayment with slugs. Honest customers may also suffer losses when change returned for overpayment is in the form of a slug...
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  • particularly on missed payments and may not, for example, consider an overpayment as an offset for a missed payment. There has been much discussion over...
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    against Rybolovlev. He also stated that "the seriousness of the initial scam" was understated "because of the wealth" of Rybolovlev in what he described...
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  • proposing to reclaim at least £15 million for the overpayment in 2008–9. In February 2009 the overpayment figure was revised to £56 million by HEFCE, who...
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    Service recently intercepted counterfeit checks, lottery tickets and eBay overpayment schemes with a value of $2.1 billion. In a 2009 opinion, Gordon v. Virtumundo...
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    lost in Amplats pension scam". Mail & Guardian. Mail&Guardian. 30 April 2017. Retrieved 7 September 2020. "Godongwana pension scam — more dirt". Mail & Guardian...
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  • but he refuses, which gives Paudge and Adrijan a good idea for a little scam. 21 "Episode 21" Marcus Fleming Rob Burke 27—28 May 2015 (27—28 May 2015)...
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  • Kathleen Shanahan asked Rehnquist to delay auditing a $571 million federal overpayment to the State of Florida. Rehnquist ordered her staff to delay the investigation...
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  • Tamil Nadu at 142 self-financing engineering colleges in the state. Another scam exposed by a popular news channel, Times Now, suggested that Information...
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  • whether they make a profit on the shares in the long term, their initial overpayment in purchasing the shares remains a detriment. When instances of circular...
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  • it appear that the vehicle has lower mileage than it actually does. Overpayment in parapsychology Paper hanging, see § Check Passport Paternity Pharmaceutical –...
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    Retrieved October 20, 2015. Nocera, Joe (January 13, 2014). "The Asbestos Scam, Part 2". New York Times. Retrieved November 10, 2014. Sundar, Sindhu (October...
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  • and financial account schemes, recovery schemes, sale of merchandise/overpayment schemes, and service schemes. Bank and financial account schemes not...
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  • ambassador, resigns over the UK government's policy of clawing back benefit overpayment. 25 April – Bute House Agreement: Scotland's SNP–Green power sharing...
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