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Steve Keim, a former general manager of the Arizona Cardinals, says he was a victim of an alleged e-commerce scam targeting NFL players.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

An incinerator scheme to help clean up the ecological catastrophe turned out to be a vast multi-million-dollar scam that included a "ghost" incinerator for the capital Tirana that was never built.

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

The scam unravelled because one of the ringers was also a journalist.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

Your relative is in the grip of a scam.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

If there was anything that terrified us as much as getting deported, it was that the principal's office would discover our address scam and send us down the road to the rough-and-tumble streets of Cupertino.

From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi

Of those 2,205, or about one in four complaints, were suspected scams, up from 2,098 the year before.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

Enter The Profiler, a self-proclaimed crime fighter who has made it his mission to root out online scams and fake job ads.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

AI chatbots have made large-scale cheating among students -- what some educators call "homework scams" -- easier than ever, allowing them to generate credible solutions to almost any written assignment within seconds.

From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026

He says staff fear they could be targeted, or that criminals could use the data to create highly convincing phishing attempts, scams or demands for bribes.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

Once in a while I’d leak stuff about phishing scams.

From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin

In a desperate attempt to bring him back, Ma Moe San Pan was then scammed out of 4.5 million kyats by strangers who falsely promised his release.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

In total, $4.6 billion in student debt is falsely showing up on credit reports, according to the Project on Predatory Student Lending, a nonprofit that represents borrowers who were scammed by their schools in court.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026

Johna backed out of the chat, realizing that she’d only just escaped being scammed.

From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026

In many cases, the account holders hadn’t yet realized they were being scammed, people who participated in the sprint said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

We hadn’t scammed Robbie, but we’d worked him in a way that felt downright sleazy, and I’d ended up in a tight spot.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls

He attended church services organized by Nigerians serving time for online scamming.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

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 at the end of the day, the art of scamming is psychological rather than technological," Gupta says.

From BBC ● May 18, 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

“They were scamming you. Girls scam guys all the time with that. Kerri was listening in on the extension.”

From "Tangerine" by Edward Bloor