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  2. Beware Latest Government Grant Scams — Warning Signs ... - AOL

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    Since 2014, con artists pretending to be government agencies have scammed a total of $450 million from unknowing Americans. Live Updates: Financial Trends, Money News and More Of course, these ...

  3. List of scams - Wikipedia

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    Scams and confidence tricks are difficult to classify, because they change often and often contain elements of more than one type. Throughout this list, the perpetrator of the confidence trick is called the "con artist" or simply "artist", and the intended victim is the "mark".

  4. Syndicate Accused in Phony 'Free' Grants Scam Has ... - AOL

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    A federal court has frozen the bank accounts of Jeremy Johnson and his associates, along with 61 phony companies the Federal Trade Commission says bilked people out of more than $275 million with ...

  5. Administration of federal assistance in the United States

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    Project grants are the most common form of grants and a large number are found in scientific research, technology development, education (such as Federal Pell Grants), social services, the arts and health care types of assistance. [citation needed] Formula grants provide funds as dictated by a law. Examples of this type of grant includes Aid to ...

  6. Scam City - Wikipedia

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    Czech news agency Stream.cz repeated many of the investigations from the Scam City documentary. Their crew got into similar situations and were sometimes scammed with even worse results. [13] They argued for the integrity of the Scam City programme and also revealed some errors in the statements made by Prague officials. For example, they ...

  7. How to spot debt collection scams: 8 signs to watch out for

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    8 warning signs of a debt collector scam Receiving a call, email or letter from a company purporting to be a debt collector can spark alarm. Before disclosing any information, look for these eight ...

  8. Child sponsorship - Wikipedia

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    Child sponsorship is a type of fundraising in which a charitable organization associates a donor sponsor with a particular child beneficiary. The sponsor receives updates from the child, typically including photos and translated letters, which help create the feeling of a personal relationship with the child.

  9. Sextortion - Wikipedia

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    A demand of money is then made, though usually the scam is either a bluff (e.g. the scammer never intended to publish them) or the pictures/videos are published regardless even if the money is sent. [1] Sextortion (a portmanteau of sex and extortion) employs non-physical forms of coercion to extort sexual favors from the victim.