A scam, or a confidence trick, is an attempt to defraud a person or group after first gaining their trust. Confidence tricks exploit victims using a combination...

up scam or scammer in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A scam is an attempt to defraud a person or group by gaining their confidence. Scam or Scams may...

Scam 1992 – The Harshad Mehta Story is an Indian Hindi-language biographical financial thriller streaming television series on SonyLIV directed by Hansal...

a convicted fraudster. Mehta's involvement in the 1992 Indian securities scam (about ₹30,000 Crores) made him infamous as a market manipulator. Of the...

An advance-fee scam is a form of fraud and is one of the most common types of confidence tricks. The scam typically involves promising the victim a significant...

Scam 2003: The Telgi Story is a 2023 Indian Hindi-language biographical financial thriller streaming television series on SonyLIV directed by Tushar Hiranandani...

Indian stock market scam was a market manipulation carried out by Mr Harshad Mehta and politicians on the Bombay Stock Exchange. That scam caused significant...

pig butchering scam, a.k.a. "Sha Zhu Pan" or Shazhupan, (Chinese: 杀猪盘), translated as Killing Pig Plate, is a type of long-term scam and investment fraud...

The Vyapam scam was an entrance examination, admission and recruitment scam. It was functional since the 1990s and was finally unearthed in the Indian...

A technical support scam, or tech support scam, is a type of scam in which a scammer claims to offer a legitimate technical support service. Victims contact...

The Royal Scam is the fifth studio album by American rock band Steely Dan, released by ABC Records in 1976; reissues have been released by MCA Records...

The Fodder Scam was a corruption scandal that involved the embezzlement of about ₹940 crore (equivalent to ₹48 billion or US$570 million in 2023) from...

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

scandal 1971 Nagarwala case 1985 Fodder scam 1987 Bofors scandal 1992 Indian stock market scam 1992 Stamp paper scam 1992 Ajmer rape case 1996 Disproportionate...

money by printing counterfeit stamp paper in India, with the size of the scam estimated to be around ₹3,000 billion (US$36 billion). Abdul Karim's mother...

Scam Interceptors is a British factual television programme about Internet fraud. Inspired by a 2020 episode of Panorama featuring ethical hacker Jim Browning...

Scam rap is a subgenre of hip hop that emerged in Detroit during the mid to late 2010s. It is characterized by lyrics that focus on various forms of fraudulent...

A romance scam is a confidence trick involving feigning romantic intentions towards a victim, gaining the victim's affection, and then using that goodwill...

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...

about scam baiting against phone scams. Pierogi works against a variety of scams over the phone, such as technical support scams, refund scams, social...

stock market scam NSE co-location scam Mining scam in India Indian coal allocation scam Saradha Chit Fund Scam Uttar Pradesh NRHM scam Concerns and controversies...

focuses on scam baiting and investigating call centres engaging in fraudulent activities. A software engineer, Browning began researching scam operations...

The black money scam, sometimes also known as the "black dollar scam" or "wash wash scam", is a scam where con artists attempt to fraudulently obtain money...

A SIM swap scam (also known as port-out scam, SIM splitting, simjacking, and SIM swapping) is a type of account takeover fraud that generally targets...

Scam baiting (or scambaiting) is a form of internet vigilantism primarily used towards advance-fee fraud, IRS impersonation scams, technical support scams...

The parcel mule scam, also known as the reshipping scam, involves scammers and unsuspecting victims handling goods to other countries. In some ways it...

accounts were reportedly compromised by outside parties to promote a bitcoin scam. Twitter and other media sources confirmed that the perpetrators had gained...

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...

The Priority Development Assistance Fund scam, also called the PDAF scam or the pork barrel scam, is a political scandal involving the alleged misuse...

A fraud factory, fraud park or scam compound is a collection of large fraud organizations usually involved in human trafficking operations, generally found...