scam
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Green’s sign in it reads: Stop to laugh at the scam.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
Even if you aren’t old enough to remember the heyday of Columbia House, you’re probably familiar with the scam at its center.
From Salon ● Aug. 21, 2026
A homeowner admits he feared a government scheme to make homes more energy efficient may have been a scam until it was completed.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
“I have never fallen for a financial scam in my 75 years of life, but the scammers are getting better,” he wrote.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
“They were scamming you. Girls scam guys all the time with that. Kerri was listening in on the extension.”
From "Tangerine" by Edward Bloor
Last year, a Freedom of Information request by Which? revealed that understaffing in trading standards teams was leading to more scams and dangerous products being sold.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
Americans lose more than $100 billion to scams every single year.
From Salon ● Aug. 21, 2026
Your morning catch up: Big Sur’s big summer, what to know about World Cup-related scams and more big stories.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
"I think the government could introduce industry-specific regulations targeting flash marriage scams," Fan Binghe from the Nanjing Office of the Beijing Jingshi law firm, told the BBC.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
Once in a while I’d leak stuff about phishing scams.
From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin
“I didn’t get scammed, they got scammed,” Chief Executive Alyssa Bowker said of the town.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
As a result, people were more susceptible to being scammed - something that often happened at a vulnerable moment, even if the victim did not consider themselves vulnerable to being tricked.
From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2026
"But I wanted people to know that if I - an educated, urban woman who considers herself to be street-smart - could get scammed, it could happen to anyone," Shrivastav says.
From BBC ● May 18, 2026
Who do you think is most likely to be scammed?
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2026
“And the mud. I don’t mind vacuuming for you. And, yes, I realize you just scammed me into doing your job. But isn’t it worth it to let the kid be a kid?”
From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Here’s the common sense: This isn’t a problem of scamming students or lazy teachers, though of course both exist.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
But then you also see headlines about everyone’s scamming.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2026
Begging, scamming and threatening: they’re all tools of the writer’s trade in Pamela Hansford Johnson’s dark comedy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 2026
And yet its demolitions in KK Park, while spectacular, do not appear to have destroyed the infrastructure for scamming there.
From BBC ● Dec. 11, 2025
“They were scamming you. Girls scam guys all the time with that. Kerri was listening in on the extension.”
From "Tangerine" by Edward Bloor
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