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Example sentences for: scams

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According to the New York Times , it has adapted to the losses by shifting to white-collar crime . Major new scams include collaboration with small brokerage houses in stock-tampering schemes, and the manufacturing of faulty prepaid telephone calling cards sold at convenience stores.
Most service contracts are scams, and this sort of solid-state consumer-electronics gadget certainly doesn't warrant one.
Most authorities in these matters [cf. Darwin Ortiz's Gambling Scams , p. 189] agree that the broads tossed or faked in three-card monte [XXII,3,15, item 5] are not specifically the queens; rather, the reference is to pasteboards that are wider than the standard deck (viz. pokersized cards vs. bridge-sized), which makes cheating by sleight-of-hand easier in that game.
seniors fight predatory lending scams and parents obtain child support for their kids.
An exposé details phone scams that bilk the elderly out of $40 billion a year.