The criminals then masquerade as the account holder in a call to the customer service representative (CSR) at the targeted financial service institution.

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Theodore Trefon is senior researcher at the Royal Museum for Central Africa and author of the blog Congo Masquerade: The political culture of aid inefficiency and reform failure.

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The scheme is similar to a treasure hunt launched in 1979 by the author of a British children's book, "Masquerade, " which had clues to the location of an 18-carat jeweled golden hare hidden somewhere in Britain.

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This is becoming a bigger issue as PCs try to masquerade as audiovisual components in the living room.

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According to some press reports the attack at Abiteye in Delta State was carried out by oil thieves angry that the military Joint Task Force in the Niger Delta is succeeding in its effort to stop illegal oil bunkering in the area, thereby jeopardising the livelihood of local bandits who often masquerade as militants.

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"We didn't know anything about his involvement in the Auxiliary Units, as far as my grandmother was concerned he was just part of the Home Guard - they used it as a masquerade, " Mrs Mogford said.

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Ironically, reformers who keep supporting measures like McCain-Feingold do a disservice to genuine campaign-finance reform, because if bills like this are allowed to masquerade as reform, neither Congress nor the president will get serious about public financing.

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The Geneva Conventions recognized that great danger to civilians results when participants in hostilities masquerade as non-combatants.

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