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  2. List of scams - Wikipedia

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    Get-rich-quick schemes are extremely varied; these include fake franchises, real estate "sure things", get-rich-quick books, wealth-building seminars, self-help gurus, sure-fire inventions, useless products, chain letters, fortune tellers, quack doctors, miracle pharmaceuticals, foreign exchange fraud, Nigerian money scams, fraudulent treasure hunts, and charms and talismans.

  3. Psychic surgery - Wikipedia

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    Psychic surgery is a pseudoscientific medical fraud in which practitioners create the illusion of performing surgery with their bare hands and use sleight of hand, fake blood, and animal parts to convince the patient that diseased lesions have been removed and that the incision has spontaneously healed.

  4. The plastic surgery and prescription violations that’ll cost a Miami doctor $26,000. David J. Neal. August 25, 2024 at 10:07 AM.

  5. Scam - Wikipedia

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    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 of the victim's credulity , naivety , compassion , vanity , confidence , irresponsibility , and greed .

  6. Man's Alleged Loan Mod Scam Paid for Wife's Plastic Surgery - AOL

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    SALT LAKE CITY -- A man who owned a loan modification business in Lehi and St. George is being accused of defrauding homeowners to pay for personal expenses including entertainment and his wife's ...

  7. GoodRx - Wikipedia

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    GoodRx began its partnership with CVS Caremark in July 2023 to automatically apply coupons to insured CVS customers purchasing generic prescriptions at certain locations. [11] In April 2024, GoodRx Gold added Publix into their network. Now, across the southeast, GoodRx Gold members can use their cards at Publix Pharmacies to save money on their ...

  8. Lexington men sentenced to prison in scam that cost luxury ...

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    Two Lexington men who took part in scamming luxury car dealerships out of more than $6 million have been sentenced to federal prison terms. Hussein Qasim, 34, was sentenced to four years and nine ...

  9. Quackery - Wikipedia

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    John R. Brinkley (1885–1942), a nonphysician and xenotransplant specialist in Kansas, US, who claimed to have discovered a method of effectively transplanting the testicles of goats into aging men. After state authorities took steps to shut down his practice, he retaliated by entering politics in 1930 and unsuccessfully running for the office ...