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2. Drop swindle - Wikipedia

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   The drop swindle was a confidence trick commonly used during the 19th and 20th centuries. Employing a variety of techniques the con usually consists of the "dropper", who purposely drops a wallet containing counterfeit money near a potential victim.

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4. List of scams - Wikipedia

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   The melon drop is a scam similar to the Chinese version Pèngcí in which a scammer will cause an unsuspecting mark to bump into them, causing the scammer to drop an item of alleged value. The scam originally targeted Japanese tourists due to the high price of honeymelon (cantaloupe) in Japan.

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   More Wallet Warnings: Social ... your health insurance website, etc.), you might receive a text message or email containing a verification code. To avoid falling victim to a phishing scam, look ...

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   • Fake email addresses - Malicious actors sometimes send from email addresses made to look like an official email address but in fact is missing a letter(s), misspelled, replaces a letter with a lookalike number (e.g. “O” and “0”), or originates from free email services that would not be used for official communications.

8. Pigeon drop - Wikipedia

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   The 1987 film House of Games contains a pigeon drop in the second act. [18] In 1983, Season 10 of The Jeffersons began with a three-episode arc about a pigeon drop scam. [19] The 2015 Better Call Saul episode "Hero" features a scene where Jimmy McGill and his friend, Marco Pasternak, use a pigeon drop to scam a mark out of a wallet. Jimmy ...

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   Financial scams are an unfortunate reality of life for consumers. According to the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre, Canadians reported $530.4 million (CND) in financial fraud losses in 2022, a 170.2% ...