scam
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“It is not a scam device,” Holmes replies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
“So this is the famous scam device,” Fielder says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
She wasn’t sure if it was a scam until they spoke on the phone.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
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
As a result of the scam, Woodhull tricked the seventy-four-year-old tycoon into believing she and her sister had mystical powers.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
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
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
New tools are aiming to better protect job seekers from scams and remove fraudulent profiles faster.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
Once in a while I’d leak stuff about phishing scams.
From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin
The trailer then cuts to Fielder grilling Evans about whether he was afraid of being scammed, considering that he comes from a rich family.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
Johna backed out of the chat, realizing that she’d only just escaped being scammed.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
Another local company paid £400 to the scammers and bought stock to sell at the festival before they realised they had been scammed.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
Working with such a learned person will prevent being scammed by a glitzy commercial.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 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
He attended church services organized by Nigerians serving time for online scamming.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
The soaking and scamming of undergrads and grad students.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
But then you also see headlines about everyone’s scamming.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2026
He had more than 50 previous convictions and had served a string of stints in jail for scamming women out of thousands of pounds through false promises of love to fund a luxury lifestyle.
From BBC ● Apr. 12, 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
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