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...

Scams and confidence tricks are difficult to classify, because they change often and often contain elements of more than one type. Throughout this list...

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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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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increase their credit rating. Overpayment fraud – One of the most popular scams making the rounds. A generous overpayment is made to the victim typically...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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)...

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...

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...

against Rybolovlev. He also stated that "the seriousness of the initial scam" was understated "because of the wealth" of Rybolovlev in what he described...

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...

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...

lost in Amplats pension scam". Mail & Guardian. Mail&Guardian. 30 April 2017. Retrieved 7 September 2020. "Godongwana pension scam — more dirt". Mail & Guardian...

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...

Tamil Nadu at 142 self-financing engineering colleges in the state. Another scam exposed by a popular news channel, Times Now, suggested that Information...

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...

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...

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...

ambassador, resigns over the UK government's policy of clawing back benefit overpayment. 25 April – Bute House Agreement: Scotland's SNP–Green power sharing...

Retrieved October 20, 2015. Nocera, Joe (January 13, 2014). "The Asbestos Scam, Part 2". New York Times. Retrieved November 10, 2014. Sundar, Sindhu (October...

it appear that the vehicle has lower mileage than it actually does. Overpayment in parapsychology Paper hanging, see § Check Passport Paternity Pharmaceutical –...

and financial account schemes, recovery schemes, sale of merchandise/overpayment schemes, and service schemes. Bank and financial account schemes not...

as new but is, in fact, used. Patient billing: A patient who is in on the scam provides his or her Medicare number in exchange for kickbacks. The provider...