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Top 10 Con Games Debunked
Con men and women are widespread these days, especially with the advent of the internet. Here are a few con games that you need to watch out for. Don’t fall through the cracks because the consequences are quite bleak for you.
10. The Embarrassing Check
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The embarrassing check con is a deliberate means of getting money from victims. The cons open a fake account with an overtly explicit title that purportedly sells sex toys or other pornographic material, with a much more harmless name. After taking orders and name, the company sends out letters saying that a shipping error or some other issue has made it impossible for them to deliver on their products. They enclose a cheque refund, only this time the name of the company is emblazoned on the cheque. The idea is to get customers to be too ashamed or embarrassed to cash it.
9. The Fiddle Game
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Many of the best cons are still employed because of their innate ability to get people tricked. The fiddle game is based on this premise. It requires two con men to work and is designed to take place in a restaurant. One of the con men poses as an old man eating dinner. When he receives the bill, the man approaches the owner and explains that he forgot his wallet at the hotel. He promises to go to get it and as the collateral leaves behind an old fiddle or violin. His excuse is that he is a traveling musician and that it is his sole source of income. After the man leaves, another con man appears sitting nearby. The second man approaches the restaurant owner and says he is a dealer of rare instruments. After inspecting it, the man pronounces it as a highly rare and valuable piece of work that is worth thousands. He then pretends to be in hurry and leaves, but not before giving him the card to call him if he wants to sell it. The old man will return with the money for his meal. The man would then return to pay for the bill. The trick was to get the restaurant owner to try to sell the violin that is worthless.
8. Relief Efforts Cons
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9/11, the Boxing Day tsunami and Hurricane Katrina have a lot more in common than you think. In times like these, you would think good people would pull together to come up with money to help the survivors. If you received a request for donation via email, there is a good chance that it is a phishing attempt. Scammers set up fake charity websites to steal the money donated to victims of the disaster.
7. Online Casino Games
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Americans spend a lot of money playing online games such as poker, blackjack, roulette and other casinogames. There are no laws against this but banks are now doing their part to prevent the transfer of money to online gaming sites and many states have now forbidden such sites to operate within their jurisdiction. This often means that players pay money through third party operators – highly risk activities. Be careful as many of the sites are designed to steal your money and confidential information.
6. Money Forwarding Scams
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This can game originates from foreign countries and seeks the help of job seeker to receive checks, deposit them in their own bank account, then wire most of the money to the hiring company, keeping a healthy amount for themselves. Not surprisingly, the checks are fake and will bounce, but not before the victim wires the money abroad.
5. Wedding Con
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To fall for a con is devastating, especially for young couples who are about to tie the knots…only to find out the entire wedding was a scam. The wedding planner tricks you in two ways. First the artist finds the couple in need of charity and uses the media to get donations from the public. After the donations are collected, the con wedding planner embezzles them. Both the couple and the genera public are conned. In another twist, the couple is asked to sign cheques without any dollar amounts. When the con collects them, they cash them in to their account and the scam only becomes apparent on the wedding day when vendors don’t show up.
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