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  2. How to avoid fraudsters when writing checks - AOL

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    Write the date on the line at the top right of the check on the line that is designated for the date,” says Marter, noting that you can write the date you are writing the check or the date ...

  3. List of types of fraud - Wikipedia

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    In law, fraud is an intentional deception to secure unfair or unlawful gain, or to deprive a victim of a legal right. Fraud can violate civil law or criminal law, or it may cause no loss of money, property, or legal right but still be an element of another civil or criminal wrong. [1]

  4. List of scams - Wikipedia

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    Insurance fraud includes a wide variety of schemes in which insureds attempt to defraud their own insurance carriers, but when the victim is a private individual, the con artist tricks the mark into damaging, for example, the con artist's car, or injuring the con artist, in a manner that the con artist can later exaggerate.

  5. Literary forgery - Wikipedia

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    Cover of The Songs of Bilitis (1894), a French pseudotranslation of Ancient Greek erotic poetry by Pierre Louÿs. Literary forgery (also known as literary mystification, literary fraud or literary hoax) is writing, such as a manuscript or a literary work, which is either deliberately misattributed to a historical or invented author, or is a purported memoir or other presumably nonfictional ...

  6. 5 Can't-Miss Ways to Spot Financial Fraud - AOL

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    Source: Flickr / Alan O'Rourke. 3. Beware of free favors Fraudsters will attempt to distract individuals by offering a small favor at no cost in an effort to distract someone from the reality of a ...

  7. 6 types of car insurance fraud - AOL

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    Another instance of auto insurance fraud is deliberately failing to add a new driver in the household. For example, some policyholders may intentionally omit a driver, typically a teenager , on ...

  8. Quackery - Wikipedia

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    As technology has evolved, particularly with the advent and wide adoption of the internet, it has increasingly become a source of quackery. For example, writing in The New York Times Magazine, Virginia Heffernan criticized WebMD for biasing readers toward drugs that are sold by the site's pharmaceutical sponsors, even when they are unnecessary ...

  9. Protect yourself from internet scams - AOL Help

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    While most junk email can seem like a minor annoyance, certain types of email can cause problems for not only you but other people you email. Sometimes these emails can contain dangerous viruses or malware that can infect your computer by downloading attached software, screensavers, photos, or offers for free products.