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A scam is a fraudulent business or scheme that takes money or other goods from an unsuspecting person. Related tag is "fraud",
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Got $2 in the mail from the Pew Research Center, is this a scam?
A complement to @Ron John answer.
It is legit As according to this third party article : Did you get $2 in the mail from Pew Research Center? Heres the deal.
It is not an expensive practice, inde …
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US doctor working in Tripoli wants me to open online account
This is just a variant of Advance-fee scam, i.e. Romance scam.
With social networking, The 419 artist(s) simply screen their candidate meeting their criteria, then everything starts by following the …
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Fell for Delta Airlines scam (they charged my credit card before contacting me!) What now?
In any case, you must contact your credit card company(VISA, Master,Amex, etc) or bank, not the merchant. Because scammer maybe taking the opportunity to confirm the victim details in order to conduct …
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Western Union request : any risk?
Your roommate's story is illogical and smells fishy. Perhaps you have already noticed that something is quite not right.
Here is the heuristic to confirm your alert:
Western Union(WU) can be a nu …
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Shipped package arrived - didn't order, possible scam?
According to this article: Beware of Amazon Packages You Didn't Order—It Could Be a Scam, though you may keep the item and refuse any payment should any party invoice you with a payment, you never kno …
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Is my friend being scammed
This is a variance of Advance-fee scam.
The scammer definitely going to ask the gullible(and greedy) victim for fees with absurd reasons (absurd to those rational people).
In fact, real money laund …
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Am I being scammed by a sugar daddy
100% scam.
And to add some salt: It is likely a Sugar daddy bot.
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Are those flyers about apartment purchase a scam?
The "We Buy Houses for Cash scheme" is targeting desperate and misinformed property owners (like elders and minorities) through pressure purchase tactics to rip them off by taking the low ball offer w …
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Can a broker swindle money out of a client by short-selling stock in their name?
You can do little about it but you should write down the lessons and pass it down to the family. Those will be more valuable to the family than mourning over the spilled milk.
Books written by Dan …
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What kind of money scam is this? Weekly allowance?
It is a typical Romance scam. There is a series of the script the scammer will use.
Asking for your personal details
Asking for your bank account
Say they need your send them money to "clear" the b …
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Is this app buyout company a scam?
Somebody already asked the same question in another website. This is not the first company that trying to buy established apps a good reputation, which they may inject fraudulent ads loading/clicking …
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Lease computing power to earn money - lifeinspace.org
The website is running a series of WebAssembly process.
As a computer program, it can do anything.
e.g.
cryptocurrency mining
Use the computer as a proxy to conduct some "profitable task"
Use th …
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Sugar daddy wants me to apply for a credit card so he can link me to his company account. Su...
It is obvious Romance scam. Consider yourself is lucky as you only "spent" $2000.
Some people simply lose ten or even hundreds of thousands when they fall into a relationship sunk cost fallacy trap. …
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Someone wants to give me lots of money
This is a typical advanced fee scam.
If you don't believe it, you can always do a search and check around on how the standard scam template email looks like.
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Dissuading my girlfriend from a scam
Although other people here already shown 150% compound return is impossible, I doubt you can convince your girlfriend and the family easily.
As mentioned by Daniel Kahneman in his book Thinking, fas …