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  2. List of scams - Wikipedia

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    The scammer begins with a large pool of marks, numbering ideally a power of two such as 1024 (2 10). The scammer divides the pool into two halves, and sends all the members of each half a prediction about the future outcome of an event with a binary outcome (such as a stock price rising or falling, or the win/loss outcome of a sporting event).

  3. List of fraudsters - Wikipedia

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    The Indian television series Scam 1992 is based on his life and fraudulent activity. Trevor Milton , founder and former CEO of Hydrogen Trucking company Nikola inc. Convicted of Fraud lying to investors to pump the companies stock price.

  4. Romance scam - Wikipedia

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    A romance scam is a confidence trick involving feigning romantic intentions towards a victim, gaining the victim's affection, and then using that goodwill to get the victim to send money to the scammer under false pretenses or to commit fraud against the victim.

  5. Romance Scams: 7 Warning Signs and How To Avoid Them - AOL

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    Online dating is a legitimate way to begin a relationship in the modern age, but online anonymity also exposes users to fraud and scams.The FBI reported losses of over $956 million to romance ...

  6. Identify legitimate AOL websites, requests, and communications

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  7. ‘Tinder Swindler’ spotlights rise of scammers using online ...

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  8. Sextortion - Wikipedia

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    A demand of money is then made, though usually the scam is either a bluff (e.g. the scammer never intended to publish them) or the pictures/videos are published regardless even if the money is sent. [1] Sextortion (a portmanteau of sex and extortion) employs non-physical forms of coercion to extort sexual favors from the victim.

  9. After the 'Tinder Swindler', the FBI is now warning ... - AOL

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