In fact, that's how the agency found out about the scam artists.
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But, at the same time, they warned of hustlers and scam artists.
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So she's disappointed when she realizes that she's hired scam artists, not psychics.
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The internet is full of scam artists and malicious actors searching for targets.
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"Scam artists are always changing to the next big thing," Ms. Daffan said.
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Liberals aren't without their own scam artists, as the proliferation of #TrumpRussia mythologists proves.
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Junkies, alcoholics, scam artists: Do we really want to hand these people monthly checks?
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You list a variety of ways that people make themselves vulnerable to scam artists.
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These are people who are scam artists with various degrees of skill and ambition.
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He is also the author of "Ponzimonium: How Scam Artists Are Ripping Off America."
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He is also the author of "Ponzimonmium: How Scam Artists Are Ripping Off America."
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The best estimate is that the scam artists started spoofing the number in late March.
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This creates fertile ground for scam artists to take advantage of families in desperate situations.
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Beware of scam artists who masquerade as tax professionals and promise large federal tax refunds.
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Clem speculated in dubious investments and openly consorted with cardsharps, forgers and other scam artists.
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The closest-held secret of modern scam artists is how woefully unimaginative they really are.
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With so many scam artists around these days, you're better off doing the search yourself.
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Beware of scam artists who masquerade as tax professionals and promise large federal tax returns.
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To those who are unfamiliar with the way identity thieves and other scam artists work: ditto.
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Targeting narco-traffickers, dirty cops, scam artists and mob enforcers, I seamlessly transformed into Jimmy Falcone.
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Be aware, too, that scam artists typically emerge after disasters to prey on the charitably inclined.
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The 52 percent of voters who approved the anticorruption referendum were "hoodwinked by scam artists," Gov.
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And it is just the kind of passion that sports memorabilia scam artists are counting on.
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It's not uncommon for scam artists to emerge after disasters to prey on the charitably inclined.
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The 1988 original starred Steve Martin and Michael Caine as scam artists in competition with one another.
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Scam artists will sometimes even threaten their victim with arrest, which is a more common scare tactic.
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An MIT professor estimated that up to a quarter of that total was collected by scam artists.
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This tax season, experts say instead of targeting individual tax payers, scam artists are targeting tax professionals.
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That would likely weed out any unidentified terrorists, hatemongers and scam artists without having to explicitly identify them.
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An example of wildcat currency from the early 19th centuryTo make things even trickier, scam artists got involved.
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Bitcoin is so rife with scam artists that Google and Facebook banned cryptocurrency advertisements on their platforms last year.
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Still, that $37,000 is a drop in the ocean to some of the other successful scam artists out there.
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"Keep in mind that investment scam artists often exploit the latest crisis to line their own pockets," the SEC says.
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Other searches on platforms like Instagram revealed that some people were less scam artists and more good old-fashioned squatters.
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The easiest thing is to say that both sides accuse each other of being racists, serial liars, or scam artists.
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As is common nowadays with some URLs, scam artists saw an opportunity to make money off of your bad luck.
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"Threats like these are common tactics scam artists use to trick victims into buying into their schemes," the I.R.S. says.
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But, with the high demand comes scam artists looking to push fakes ... and the market is already on high alert.
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Tax season is in full swing — and that means it's hunting time for scam artists hoping to rip off taxpayers.
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Lately, I've been thinking of the victims of other recently famous scam artists and how they may be feeling now.
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But that's exactly the type of unwarranted trust given to scam artists that allows them to take advantage of their victims.
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The problem is that scam artists know how alluring it can be, and they are happy to exploit our entrepreneurial spirits.
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From your standard telemarketers all the way up to professional scam artists, unwanted callers are a drain on time, energy and money.
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"These websites are designed to be as misleading as possible," said Green, who described creators of fake news as professional scam artists.
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"We're not here to shield rapists, we're not here to shield scam artists or shady business people," said one crisis communications expert.
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The problem is that many of the videos are published by scam artists who are apparently trying to steal your personal information.
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But this also means that winner is now low-grade famous — and a potential target for robbery, kidnapping, scam artists, and even murder.
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This trajectory would have been impossible if not for a labyrinthine tax system especially vulnerable to book-cooking scam artists like the Trumps.
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At the same time, he said, technology makes it easier for scam artists to reach larger numbers of people, by telephone or email.
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FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler in July urged major companies to take new action to block robocalls, which often come from telemarketers or scam artists.
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But the same opportunity that Amazon saw, and which it sold to millions of merchants, has attracted schemers and scam artists across the globe.
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The script sprays its venom on arts philanthropists, four-horse-coach liberals and the ancestors of Wall Street scam artists with fire-hose force.
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"They were hoodwinked by scam artists who grossly misrepresented these proposed measures," Mr. Daugaard said of how the ethics package was presented to voters.
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The actress are playing two dueling scam artists in The Hustle, the gender-swapping remake of Caine and Martin's hilarious 1988 comedy Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.
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WASHINGTON, Sept 1 (Reuters) - As some waters recede following Hurricane Harvey's devastating winds and rain, reports of scam artists taking advantage of victims are surging.
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Rather than faulting the science, we should be on the lookout for scam artists using it as a justification to advance their systemically racist beliefs.
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It showed that in the past, exempting associations from regulations has led to market collapse and a spike in fraudulent insurance plans run by scam artists.
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"If you start loosening those up you don't get technologists coming in with better things, you get scam artists coming in and stealing things," he says.
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This enforcement regime is totally inadequate for scam artists and we need do more to separate enforcement of carelessness and other mistakes from more sinister actors.
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But for every way that Amazon uses technology to deliver products, there is a "dark" corner used by criminals -- from terrorists to drug dealers to scam artists.
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"This enforcement regime is totally inadequate for scam artists and we need do more to separate enforcement of carelessness and other mistakes from more sinister actors," Thune added.
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We've discovered that these scam artists have a history of copying a website, aggressively poaching from their community, then attempting to sell the company back to the original.
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In The Hustle, they star as scam artists, one low rent and the other high class, who team up to take down the men who have wronged them.
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Opponents have argued that the bill puts personal information, including the names of asbestos victims, in the hands of scam artists, employers, potential insurers and debt collectors. Rep.
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As the questioning continued, Abramovich took great care to distinguish the "good guy" robocallers like himself, who were offering "legitimate services or products," from the true scam artists.
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Scam artists often times based abroad try to appear to call from a bank or a government phone to trick consumers into disclosing confidential financial or account information.
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Those scam artists, who are highlighted year after year in the IRS "dirty dozen" list of most prominent tax scams, often target unsuspecting elderly and low-income taxpayers.
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Those scam artists, who are highlighted year after year in the IRS' "dirty dozen" list of most prominent tax scams, often target unsuspecting elderly and low-income taxpayers.
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To a large degree, African Americans, Hispanics and Native Americans are inured to these scam artists and see through much of this, but most white youth do not.
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The fact that Twitter can't decide what its "verified" badge is supposed to represent has lent credibility to everyone from white supremacists to scam artists like Rosenbacher doesn't help.
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This underscores the peril of demagoguing the I.R.S. It's not the little guy who benefits most from diminishing the agency; it's the scam artists and sophisticated high-dollar cheats.
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Scam artists typically make unsolicited phone calls or leave voice mails with urgent callback requests demanding taxpayers shell out cash via wire transfer, prepaid debit card or gift card.
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The Brothers Bloom is a classic con man story about a pair of brothers (Ruffalo and Brody) who, after being orphaned at a young age, are now skilled scam artists.
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The important thing is to prevent hostile powers, scam artists, and opportunists from turning all Facebook's wonderful tools—which are otherwise used to further peace, love, and understanding—against its users.
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The application process is free, but lawmakers warned that some scam artists have tried to convince veterans that they need to pay a fee, so they can pocket the money themselves.
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The Federal Communications Commission fined AT&T more than $7 million on Monday for allowing scam artists with alleged links to the drug trade to illegally place charges on customers' bills.
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Scam artists have sent out letters that target older people, telling them to submit personal information to ensure that their bank accounts make the transition, according to the national broadcaster NHK.
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Barbara Underwood and Josh Shapiro, the attorneys general of New York and Pennsylvania, announced the changes on Tuesday, as part of a more than year-long initiative to thwart scam artists.
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It's a unique economy filled with avid collectors, product-flippers, scam artists, thieves, automated bots and entrepreneurs that seek to cash in on a market with massive demand and potentially high returns.
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Additionally, a "vendor super list" has been created that aims to split the trustworthy from the scam artists, while detailing specific dealers' delivery times and the quality of the drugs they sell.
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Through entertainment, they are educating millions of consumers on how risky internet prospects can be, effectively turning the internet's connective power back on scam artists who would otherwise use it for harm.
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Scam artists know that many older people have fixed incomes, which may make them vulnerable to fraud because they are open to hearing about ways to make money and pay their bills.
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People who think all small-batch food producers are scam artists, meanwhile, took the micro-scandal as proof that anyone paying more than $2 for a candy bar is a pretentious sucker.
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Scam artists are using Google advertising to show up in people's search results — sometimes above real listings — where they hijack the names of real businesses or pretend to be nearby when they're not.
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Metacritic Score: 35/100A gender-swapped remake of "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels," Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson star as two scam artists who team up to rip off the rotten men who've mistreated them.
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They do things like give away too much to family and friends, or have scam artists take advantage of them, or they get a feeling like this money's unlimited and start spending it all.
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"[Their fear] has got to be a pretty big incentive for scam artists," said Juan Pedroza, a sociology professor at UC Santa Cruz, who has been examining frauds that target immigrants for several years.
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The FCC wants a reliable verification system to prevent scam artists from spoofing the number of a bank, debt collector, government tax agency or other organizations to trick consumers into disclosing confidential financial information.
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But advocates for the victims and public interest groups argue that the legislation would allow scam artists and identity thieves to prey on victims of asbestos exposure who have filed claims with the trusts.
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If you dedicated half your computer's processing cycles to helping the Bitcoin network get its math right — and thus fend off the hackers and scam artists — you received a small sliver of the currency.
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Scam artists, like the Platinum Partners hedge fund executives who allegedly defrauded inventors of nearly $1 billion, are increasingly preying upon people they get to know through shared interests and activities, especially religious or cultural affiliations.
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If you've gotten a call from this number and have given any information to the scam artists, you're encouraged to report it on the DHS OIG website or by calling the hotline number, 1-800-323-8603.
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For the past few years, a handful of glamorous, high-rolling scam artists who conned their way into elite society — making hundreds of thousands, millions, or even billions of dollars along the way — have captivated American media.
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Clark Stanley, the 19th-century salesman who peddled actual snake oil — or what he claimed was snake oil, anyway — is part of a long tradition of scam artists who exploit our anxieties about our health and well-being.
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The groups present a difficult challenge for Facebook as it has moved to crack down on misinformation, scam artists and other bad actors while also promoting its groups feature, which the social network has emphasized in recent years.
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Following a detailed account of how scam artists can easily gain access to health care cash, six Democratic senators this week sent a letter to federal regulators urging them to "close loopholes" that allow "bad actors" to commit fraud.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Financial Industry Regulatory Authority announced a new rule on Thursday that allows brokers to pause disbursements from client accounts if they suspect a client is suffering from dementia or being influenced by caregivers or scam artists.
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" In what was likely the first case of an official government statement denying an agency attempt to "neg anyone," the Bureau of Consular Affairs tweeted: "We're not trying to neg anyone -- just trying to warn folks about overseas scam artists.
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And he's hardly alone: The conservative intelligentsia is filled with scam artists like D'Souza, who are dressed up as serious thinkers when their real purpose is to attack the left, to defend a reactionary ideology and, increasingly, to simply troll.
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Paul Di Filippo gives it an honest try in THE BIG GET-EVEN (Blackstone, $26.99), working with a motley crew of scam artists who team up to take revenge on a common enemy, a real-estate mogul named Barnaby Nancarrow.
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From a Nigerian Prince who claims to have a pile of cash with your name on it, to Victor Lustig, the man who sold the Eiffel Tower twice, there's seemingly never a shortage of scam artists trying to swindle you.
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" He went on, "In one way or another the subtext of all these novels is the great Melvillean theme of the American weakness for secret conspiracies and arcane knowledge, and our embrace of con men, scam artists and flimflammers of every sort.
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In addition, the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys offers a directory of attorneys who specialize in an area of the law that will only expand as the senior population grows, and as scam artists like Avery continue to troll for victims.
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"It will make life a lot more difficult for scam artists and help ensure that more scammers face punishment for their crimes," Thune said of the bill on the Senate floor ahead of the vote, noting he hopes the House takes it up soon.
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"The FACT Act would create conditions that are ripe for scam artists and identity thieves to prey on all victims of asbestos exposure who have filed claims with trusts established to ensure compensation for harm caused by asbestos corporations," said a letter sent to House members Tuesday.
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"The FACT Act would create conditions that are ripe for scam artists and identity thieves to prey on all victims of asbestos exposure who have filed claims with trusts established to ensure compensation for harm caused by asbestos corporations," they said in a letter sent to House members Tuesday.
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Among other things, I had the misfortune once to meet someone connected with her "Prevezon" company (this was in Washington) and like Masha Gessen of the New Yorker, I'm more likely to think these people are small-time scam artists of a type that's depressingly familiar in Russia.
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The program was openly encouraged by Vice President Dick Cheney; defended by neoconservative pundits like the late Charles Krauthammer; legally justified in a memo by Justice Department official John Yoo (played by Pun Bandhu, Yoo is now a law professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of a recent New York Times op-ed arguing against Donald Trump's impeachment); and designed and executed by a pair of almost comical scam artists who pitched the CIA on their sadistic methods and made off with millions in public funding.
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