Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. A fraudulent business scheme; a swindle.
- transitive v. To defraud; swindle.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. Fraudulent deal.
- v. To defraud or embezzle.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- v. deprive of by deceit
- n. a fraudulent business scheme
Etymologies
Examples
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No wonder its failing, people are realizing what the scam is all about.
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Do a Google search and type in the name of the opportunity/school/business and then add the word "scam" after it.
Julie Gray: Are You Too Smart for an Internet Scam? I Thought So Too.
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Presumably this scam is an attempt to tug at the heartstrings of gullible Christians.
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A key part of this scam is the generally agreed upon principles that investors seek.
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Green Bay police put out a warning about what it calls a scam some people in the area have lost money on.
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Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N. Y. had asked for an FTC investigation into what he described as the scam of "robo-dialer harassment."
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The Republicon (neocon) scam is to downsize Government while declaring it is incompetent because these make it as such, bankruptig We The People as they consolidate all of the power.
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The only people the GOP is standing up for is the Health Insurance Industry and big business, the amount of money the republicans and a few democrats scam from the industry is disgusting.
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The scam is pretty transparent in this case, but we thought we'd put it out there as a reminder anyway.
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Update: I'm surprised at the number of commenters who don't know what this scam is ... basically it's an enticement into advance fee fraud.
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