Scam in a sentence as a noun

No, it's not like she pulled off a Madoff scam. But was it an interesting article?

He ran a "premium" phone number scam. He ran a pump and dump scheme to defraud investors.

It is a scam and you are a horrible investor for investing in them.

But that you were stupid enough to fall for the scam and have the tables turned on you. Interesting.

Agreed, complete scam. From that image it looks like you are making a standard purchase for a pair of shoes, and possibly just signing up to their site.

Most massive scam in US history. Oh and they de-coupled foodstamps from corporate welfare now so expect this to become more insane over the rest of the decade.

Wow. As someone who is actually active in the A10 community, I know Tom and this is not a scam. Some people focus more on developing cool **** than on their website.

--- It looks a scam, it sounds like a scam, it's marketed like a scam and now it apparently is being produced like any other scam. So how long until we finally draw the obvious conclusion?

O Airport Drivers will sometimes try and scam you for a 50% surcharge when they are still "in zone". They even try and pull that on someone like me who flys in and out of SFO on a monthly basis - I can imagine how many just accept it.

It even shows signs of a liar getting carried away with his own tall tale: by the end of the story, Bob has "the same scam going across multiple companies in the area". How did he arrive at all of them at 9 am in order to watch his cat videos?

Scam in a sentence as a verb

Since there are no reputation mechanisms to speak of, it's far too easy to waste your time with stuff that's either spam or a scam. Meanwhile, data visualization has progressed dramatically in the last decade.

You've just demonstrated exactly what a classic scam looks like online." It's in plain English" doesn't compensate for the fact that it's a small print sidebar and everything else looks and feels exactly like a regular shop.

That is doing far more benefit to India's reputation, than a yet-another-scam-infested scheme.

We in fact have done plenty of due diligence, and you will be pleased to know it is not a scam company. In fact, the company has very high customer satisfaction ratings, including an NPS that is in the ballpark of Amazon, and a very high customer retention rate.

For example, /k/ is aspirated in word-initial position in words like cam but unaspirated after word-initial /s/ in words like scam. If you listen closely enough you realize that you turbulently expire a lot of air after the c in cam but dont do so in scam.

That is why the smarter scammers refund to everybody who complains, not refunding is plain dumb. This scam has been around for a long time, usually it's adult companies that sell you a 'free' membership with an age verification which comes with a pack of subscriptions tacked on for other stuff that you will never use.

I was hired only to be a prop in a scam where my existence as an employee was only used to screw over clients for money as part of a larger scam to sell off a company to another company for profit and pocket the money. It's very cool that Minnesota has a law prohibiting lying to people to get them to come work for you.

I regret using the word "scam" in my answer, because I think it overshadows the broader point I was making about Bitcoin's severe structural design flaws. After watching the community react to this debate, I'm pretty confident that the average bitcoin supporter is not intentionally defrauding people.

I casually discarded those, blaming it on the new-found business astuteness of the society I lived in, but it seems this kind of scam is still around. I'm calling it scam because, where I live, this type of business was actually considered a scam, and I think this went to the extent that they passed legislation to ensure their activity is regulated.

Some of the stunts he pulled in between his BBS days and megaupload was to royally scam "letsbuyit. com" which he got convicted for and then he tried to open a "very high-wealth individuals" automatic trading system which obviously bombed. And back in the day he flamed the German CCC and loved to flash the word "hacker" as if he belongs. He sold a company he founded, DataProtect, to the renowned TV Rheinland and it turned out to be a scam and crashed.

Quote Examples using Scam

It all collapsed a few years ago, but there's a close to 100% chance that they are the ones running the scam in this current case. edit: Keep downvoting this, monkeys! I have no doubt I am one of a small handful of people on HN that has intimate experience of how Saipan works and how corrupt this place is. My post gives true insight to what is going on there. Imagine the worst fundamentalist christian ignorant half scam hillbilly sex fiend town straight out of the movie Deliverance, but then give them dictatorial control over outsiders, a total lack of desire to work and a strong desire to dominate control and cheat others and you have Saipan. It's like a stereotypical town thought to exist in the backwoods of Arkansas, but it's real, slavery is still legal, and it's part of the US. Absolutely anything involving Saipanese officials that has a money angle for them is a total scam.

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Proper Noun Examples for Scam

Amazon is actually going out of its way to provide excellent customer service, and is being exploited by a scammer. It is therefore not "Amazon's Scam", but a scam perpetrated against Amazon.

Scam definitions

noun

a fraudulent business scheme

See also: cozenage

verb

deprive of by deceit; "He swindled me out of my inheritance"; "She defrauded the customers who trusted her"; "the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change"