Most are run by reputable marketers but some are skillfully created by con artists.
We usually think of con artists in one of a few different categorical ways.
Of course, there are plenty of con artists who find easy pickings among the gullible.
Beware of con artists pretending to be brokers and claiming to have relationships with well-known clearing firms.
We know that con artists often have a religious zeal and charisma that makes us suspend disbelief.
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Mr Griffiths hopes that his approach will increase the protection to customers, and root out the con artists.
But when it comes to protecting consumers, Bernstein makes sure con artists on the Web know she means business.
The secretive nature of hedge funds makes them enticing vehicles for con artists.
At the center of this industry are a relatively small number of professional con artists who actually gather the information.
Aging parents with memory problems are a favorite target for scammers, con artists and manipulation, as we often read in news reports.
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The defense painted the family as con artists looking for a payout.
Unfortunately, it has also revolutionized how con artists communicate with potential prey.
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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As recent history has sadly demonstrated, there are far too many con artists, fraudsters, scamsters and financial morons out there masquerading as know-it-alls.
The con artists disguise their schemes to look legitimate and an alarming number of elders are tricked into playing, paying and getting ripped off.
Rather than monitor transactions on a website, Detica typically works for large financial institutions overseeing their everyday business to spot fraudsters and con artists.
Congressional investigators have obtained emails in which con artists write about trying four times, eight times, even 10 times to obtain a piece of information.
It may no longer be a crime for con artists to pass themselves off as heroes, but one thing is certain -- it is contemptible.
Insiders don't deny that there are con artists in their midst.
Cedrone said the illness affected his client's judgment, blinding him from the risks associated with a financial scheme that Mezvinsky allegedly entered into with con artists from Africa.
Any time a disaster of this magnitude happens con artists and thieves will try to take advantage of people when they are most in need of human kindness.
Professor Mwami says the charging of any type of fee is not typical among traditional African healers and is more common among con artists capitalizing on the fears of others.
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In Florida con artists using the title National Institute of Christian Financial Planning Inc. took investors to the cleaners by promising to invest in good works that also would turn a profit.
Bah and his cronies kept calling you for more money needed to release the prize and, oh well, as long as you kept sending additional payments, the con artists kept calling you for more.
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They are the modern day evolution of the gamblers, harlots, snake oil salesmen and con artists who followed the pioneers who settled the American west or the risk takers who search for gold in the hills.
Even though Kickstarter has no enforcement mechanism to prevent con artists from using the system to raise funds for fake projects, it is clear that with a direct failure rate well below 5%, founders take their obligations seriously.
Though underfunded, it claims the arrest of hundreds of con-artists and the recovery of hundreds of millions of dollars in just two years.
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Many Americans feel disconnected and immune to frauds committed by the Bernard Madoffs of the world, but the most least suspecting often fall prey to con-artists.
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Combine that with the fact that the legal systems of these havens provide little real protection for those defrauded (the con-artists would disappear with the money anyway), and a brew is created that would make any would-be trust settlor very nervous.
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