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  2. ‘Pump Switching’ and Other Gas Station Scams To Avoid at All ...

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    The pump switching scam, which is one of the newer scams, targets people using credit cards to pay at the pump. The scammers have been approaching unsuspecting victims at the gas pump to offer to ...

  3. Gasoline pill - Wikipedia

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    The scammer then convinces the marks to buy a number of useless pills at 10000 lire each, until a rough-mannered cop exposes the scam and mocks the scammer saying "he fills his fuel tank with turds". In E.L. Doctorow 's historical novel Ragtime , Henry Ford must deal with a man claiming to have invented a water-to-gasoline pill; possibly a ...

  4. Firepower International - Wikipedia

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    Firepower International was a fraudulent company that advertised as a Hong Kong-based company owned and operated by Global Fuel Technologies Ltd, specializing in technology purporting to reduce the fuel consumption and environmental impact of petrol-operated vehicles. [1]

  5. List of fake news websites - Wikipedia

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    Spoof of National Review. [21] NBC.com.co NBC.com.co Imitates NBC. [23] [21] NBCNews.com.co NBCNews.com.co Defunct Mimics the URL, design and logo of NBC News. [24] News Examiner newsexaminer.net Started in 2015 by Paul Horner, the lead writer of the National Report. This website has been known to mix real news along with its fake news. [25]

  6. 10 Things You Should Never Pay For - AOL

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    6. Bottled Water. While it might seem like a stretch to call the entire bottled water industry a scam … it kinda is. Most bottled water companies simply take municipal water and filter it for ...

  7. Nottingham: Man jailed over £10k armed robberies at petrol ...

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  8. Scam baiting - Wikipedia

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    For scams conducted via written communication, baiters may answer scam emails using throwaway email accounts, pretending to be receptive to scammers' offers. [4]Popular methods of accomplishing the first objective are to ask scammers to fill out lengthy questionnaires; [5] to bait scammers into taking long trips; to encourage the use of poorly made props or inappropriate English-language ...

  9. List of scams - Wikipedia

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    The Spanish Prisoner scam—and its modern variant, the advance-fee scam or "Nigerian letter scam"—involves enlisting the mark to aid in retrieving some stolen money from its hiding place. The victim sometimes believes they can cheat the con artists out of their money, but anyone trying this has already fallen for the essential con by ...