The scam artists then bombard the taxpayer with fraudulent come-ons to solve their tax issues.
Unregulated and operating in secrecy, hedge funds are a great place for scam artists.
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Finally, be careful of scam artists preying on people who may feel confused and vulnerable.
The theme is excitement and promise: investors have it and scam artists take advantage of it.
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Today's thieves and scam artists are taking their criminal activity off the streets and moving it online.
As foreclosure numbers continue to rise, so do the number of homeowners being victimized by loan scam artists.
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This is a disgraceful effort by scam artists to take advantage of people by giving them false hopes of a nonexistent refund.
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But sometimes, they result from abuses by scam artists and crooked companies.
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Finally, because seniors are more frequently targeted by scam artists, we made sure the new law gives us stronger tools to target criminals.
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After all, many fraudsters and scam artists are brilliant at presenting their investments on paper to meet the very basic disclosures of crowdfunding.
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The liar law can be traced to 1863, when President Lincoln needed a way to fight scam artists ripping off the Union Army.
They can expect those who raised the money to work their asses off to deliver on their promises, lest they be branded scam artists.
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Indeed, the most successful scam artists regularly outsmart their outside experts or even use the skills and reputation of these experts to perpetuate the fraud.
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That has created a space numerous scam artists take advantage of.
And when scam artists get involved, free could be really expensive.
Second, the elder with early cognitive impairment is very vulnerable to financial abuse from family, from unscrupulous financial professionals, from scam artists or from caregivers.
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State Insurance Commissioner Stephen Poizner said his office has 100 fraud investigators on the ground going door-to-door with local law enforcement, telling residents how to avoid scam artists.
This underground business, involving as it does hungry sellers and desperate buyers, is a fecund breeding ground for scoundrels and scam artists, despite the high-minded claims of saving lives.
It involves scam artists - often masquerading as corrupt officials or sons and daughters of dead dictators - offering people via e-mail or faxes shares in hidden fortunes in exchange for simple administrative assistance.
To find their "mooches" for this latest scam, for a small fee the boiler-room operators buy from the BLM computerized lists of leaseholders, many of whom had previously made their purchases through other scam artists.
The malfeasance of Bernie Ebbers and Dennis Kozlowski claimed the front page, but it was the short articles on A21 or C15 detailing the quieter frauds, the scam artists working in subtler pigments, in found objects, that showed Kendall the extent of the national deceit.
Police in Singapore are reporting what appears to be a ring (or rings) of online scam artists who use attractive women to "friend" victims on social sites, seduce them into cybersex on webcams and then threaten to post images or videos of them online if they don't pay up.
The geniuses and scam-artists who run the big banks want to keep the honey pots open as long as possible.
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Clearly, the online world is filled with con artists who have thought about virtually every scam by which they can rip you off.
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