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Green’s sign in it reads: Stop to laugh at the scam.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

My colleague Joe Barrett reported on a jury-duty scam where attackers spied on the victim’s texts, web searches and location.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026

In an era before widespread tracking technology followed everyone’s consumption habits around the internet, Columbia House was remarkably easy to scam back.

From Salon ● Aug. 21, 2026

Sources familiar with the investigation said victims have been reluctant to come forward given the nature of the alleged scam.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

Your aunt Chana lent me another two hundred dollars; I burned it all on a scam bartending school.

From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Reports of QR code-related scams have gone up by 700% in the past four years, figures by Report Fraud have revealed.

From BBC ● Aug. 23, 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

Later, Bernie Madoff scammed billions from many of Wall Street’s leading institutions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 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

When Amie tried to contact the "broker" after realising she had been scammed, she said he "ghosted" her.

From BBC ● May 19, 2026

Who do you think is most likely to be scammed?

From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2026

I may not have liked the people in Lily that much, but I felt sorry for anyone being massively scammed.

From "Where Things Come Back" by John Corey Whaley

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

Dozens of dogs kept in sham animal shelters and used for online scamming have been rescued by police and animal rights organisations in Uganda following a BBC investigation.

From BBC ● May 13, 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

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

From "Tangerine" by Edward Bloor