"fraud" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- A central element of advance-fee fraud is that the transaction from the victim to the scammer must be untraceable and irreversible.
- Later, Nixon's Head falls for a "sweepstakes" letter by the same scammers, while Zoidberg is taken by an advance-fee fraud.
- The best way to avoid becoming a victim of advance-fee fraud is common sense - if something looks too good to be true, it probably is.
- Modern variants of the Spanish Prisoner include the advance-fee fraud, in particular the Nigerian money transfer (or 419) scam.
- In the advance-fee fraud, a valuable item must be ransomed from a warehouse, crooked customs agent, or lost-baggage facility before the authorities or thieves recognize its value.
- In March, Mr. Visser established www.419legal.org as a clearinghouse for information about advance-fee fraud and as a launching pad for attacking fraud artists.
- Now, he uses his local radio show to help warn people about advance-fee fraud.
- Hence advance-fee fraud and romance scammers continue to receive funds via Western Union confident in the knowledge that money lost to overseas scammers is almost always unrecoverable.
- A lottery scam is a type of advance-fee fraud which begins with an unexpected email notification that "You have won!"
- Mbote's offer had the hallmarks of an advance-fee fraud, a swindle whose victims are asked to provide money, information, or services in exchange for a share of a promised fortune.
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