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Since there is no limit to a scam artist’s potential, recognizing signs of common scams will serve you well. Here are examples of three of the most common scams out there today and how to block ...
Examples include the diamond hoax of 1872 and the Bre-X gold fraud of the mid-1990s. This trick was featured in the HBO series Deadwood, when Al Swearengen and E. B. Farnum trick Brom Garret into believing gold is to be found on the claim Swearengen intends to sell him. This con was also featured in Sneaky Pete.
Joe Springer, a gold dealer, says the sample Arthur had left at the bar is good. Mattie's friend Eadie's fiancé Russ comes in for treatment of a large splinter that appears to come from the ladder to Arthur's mine. Blake calls the police about Russ and later attends the reception for the new British Consul General, an event he'd tried to avoid.
An advance-fee scam is a form of fraud and is one of the most common types of confidence tricks. 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. [1] [2] If a victim makes the payment, the ...
Black money scam. The black money scam, sometimes also known as the "black dollar scam" or "wash wash scam", is a scam where con artists attempt to fraudulently obtain money from a victim by convincing them that piles of banknote-sized paper are real currency that has been stained in a heist. The victim is persuaded to pay fees and purchase ...
April 14, 1930 (sentenced) Two counts of second-degree murder. 28–36 years imprisonment [212] Crane was convicted on September 25, 1929, of the murder of "his former sweetheart" [213] and on March 28, 1930, of the murder of the man accompanying her at the time of the shooting. [214] Trevor Crowe. Retired.
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