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2. Advance-fee scam - Wikipedia

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   Scam letter posted within South Africa. An advance-fee scam is a form of fraud and is a common confidence trick.The scam typically involves promising the victim a significant share of a large sum of money, in return for a small up-front payment, which the fraudster claims will be used to obtain the large sum.

3. List of scams - Wikipedia

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   A recovery room scam is a form of advance-fee fraud where the scammer (sometimes posing as a law enforcement officer or attorney) calls investors who have been sold worthless shares (for example in a boiler-room scam), and offers to buy them, to allow the investors to recover their investments. [92]

4. List of Ponzi schemes - Wikipedia

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   In the 1980s in San Diego, California, J. David & Company, a purported currency and commodity trading and investing operation named after its founder, J. David Dominelli, a withdrawn and shy currency and commodity trader, was revealed to be a Ponzi scheme which took in $200 million and returned $120 million to investors, leaving a net loss of ...

5. Barry Minkow - Wikipedia

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   Barry Jay Minkow (born March 22, 1966) [1] is a former American businessman, pastor, and convicted felon.While still in high school, Minkow founded ZZZZ Best (/ ˈ z iː b ɛ s t / [2]), which appeared to be an immensely successful carpet-cleaning and restoration company.

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7. Insurance fraud - Wikipedia

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   Insurance fraud has existed since the beginning of insurance as a commercial enterprise. [4]Long before the rise of the modern insurance industry, an epigram by the Roman poet Martial, set in the Roman Empire during the first century AD, illustrates how crimes such as arson might be motivated by profit: [5]