The gem scam is a confidence trick performed usually against tourists. The most known version occurs in Bangkok, Thailand as well as other cities in the...

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...

with stealing a doughnut. Thai tailor scam Gem scam Crime in Thailand Thailand portal "Duty free shop 'theft' scam a case of recycled news". The Nation...

Bangkok Like a Local, but Don't Fall for the Gem Scam (Like We Did)!! – the Traveluster". "Incredible gem scam story". 2005-12-22. Archived from the original...

Thais to trick Singaporean tourists. Gem scam Thai zig zag scam Crime in Thailand "BangkokScams.com". BangkokScams.com. 2008-09-27. Archived from the original...

Scam City is a television show which started airing on Travel + Escape in June 2012, and has subsequently aired on the National Geographic Channel, and...

per cent reported encountering a scam, the most common of which was the gem scam, in which tourists are tricked into buying overpriced jewellery. Among...

Kapa-Community Ministry International and its executives, citing an investment scam. President Rodrigo Duterte was the first government official to announce...

infamous for scams and touts. Among the most famous and lucrative are the gem scam, Thai tailor scam, and fake travel agents and Thai zig zag scam. The boiler...

with his nephew after the F.I.R was filed about the bank scam. Nirav Modi Punjab National Bank Scam "Gitanjali Group". Gitanjali Group. Retrieved 23 December...

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...

for Thailand. Sobhraj and Leclerc made a living by carrying out scams; a typical scam was to help their targets out of difficult situations. In one instance...

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Together, they seek to expose the telemarketing industry as the wide-scale scam that it is. In 2001, Sam Lipman-Stern began working at Civic Development...

local women. Sobhraj gathered followers by gaining their loyalty; a typical scam was to help his target out of difficult situations. In one case, he helped...

to the Caribbean nation of Antigua and Barbuda. A few days later, the PNB scam was disclosed. On 15 January, he took the oath of citizenship of Antigua...

of production helicopters began in 1977. An improved Lynx AH.1 with Gem 41-1 or Gem 42 engines and an uprated transmission was referred to as the Lynx...

complaining about software priced above $.99. The app only showed a glowing red gem and an icon that, when pressed, displayed the following mantra in large text:...

Here 'trim' means to steal from, and 'knock' means to persuade away from a scam. The meaning is that there is no shortage of new victims, nor of con men...

April 30, 2024 (2024-04-30) Bill and Toony avoid becoming the victims of a scam with the help of a special guest. Featured cartoons : Fool Coverage (1952)...

where scam artists sell it to senior citizens, who give them as gifts to relatives. The relatives sell the gifts for cash, and the gold and gems are separated...

helped his father, Jack (Jimmy McKenna), to fake his own death as part of a scam, which drew comparisons to the John Darwin disappearance case. Darren has...

American fraudster, operated in New York and was involved in green goods scams. Wrote an autobiography and also had a biography written about him which...

one of Oliver's tuxedos. Oliver gives everyone their money back. Haney scams Eb out of the $10 he's earned so far and makes him the Midwest distributor...

its release, an imposter account on social media targeted fans with NFT scams. Coral Island does not feature any NFT content. Following the closure of...

Howard and Harold McBride with comical and exhausting results. 197 24 "Fam Scam" Jessica Bortuski Byron Dockins Stu Livingston November 5, 2021 (2021-11-05)...

funds meant as relief for poor cobblers, in the Rs 1000 crores "cobbler scam". (d) Prabhu was also the prime accused in a court case of a banking fraud...