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10,000 Hours

In 2010, Sen. Gabriel Alcaraz prepares a privilege speech revealing details of a corruption scam at the highest levels of the government, implicating President Genoviva Obrero.

Arthur A. Goldberg

The Philadelphia Inquirer exposed the scam in a series of articles in 1987.

Bogus colleges in the United Kingdom

An example of a bogus college run as a scam is the Middlesbrough-based National Distance Learning College, which operated between 1999 and 2001 and offered distance learning courses in computing and business related subjects which it claimed were accredited by official qualification bodies such as BTEC and City & Guilds.

Clark Waddoups

Judge Waddoups is also currently presiding over the Rick Koerber case, in which Koerber is accused of running an investment scam, or Ponzi Scheme, involving over $100 million.

Dao, Capiz

Jocelyn "Joc-Joc" Bolante - Alleged mastermind of 2004 Fertilizer Fund Scam.

David Wynn Miller

In 2005, Montclair, New Jersey resident Brenda Rickard was arrested and charged with orchestrating a $30 million mortgage scam: "Rickard, who claimed her name is :Brenda :Rickard, is a follower of :Judge: David-Wynn: Miller, who gives seminars around the country and advocates speaking in the 'true language,' which features odd punctuation and syntax. 'I have no problem with the complaint against me as long as it’s in the truthful language,' Rickard told the judge."

Five Ring Circus

It was the fifteenth book featuring Sydney detective Scobie Malone and involves his investigation into a financial scam in the lead up to the 2000 Sydney Olympics.

Flockton Grey

The perpetrators of the scam, owner Ken Richardson and trainer Stephen Wiles, saw an opportunity to make a quick profit and backed their horse with £20,000, spreading their money around betting shops to avoid detection.

Fortune telling fraud

See Telemarketing fraud for information about a common scam in which fraud artists install malware on victims' computers.

Foundation for New Era Philanthropy

Bennett's particular scam collapsed because of an investigation headed by Mary Beth Osborn, head of the Charitable Trust Section of the Pennsylvania attorney general's office.

Kirth Gersen

During the events described in The Killing Machine, however, Gersen gains fabulous wealth (10 billion SVU in cash) by running a scam on Kokor Hekkus, a Demon Prince who is holding him for ransom, and on Interchange, the institution that facilities the ransoming of kidnap victims.

Manohar J. Pherwani

He quit as chairman of the NSE and Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services Ltd (IL&FS) in 1992, in the wake of the 1992 Securities Scam.

My Friend Lefterakis

One evening, while in the middle of a card game with his friend Thanassis (Giorgos Konstantinou), he starts explaining his scam to him; they are interrupted however by the maid, who announces that Lefterakis has just arrived from Patras.

NSEL scam

The NSEL scam is a systematic and premeditated fraud perpetrated in the commodity market by National Spot Exchange Ltd based in Mumbai, India.

Oscar Hartzell

Hartzell and his schemes were also the subject of a play, Scam, produced at London's Riverside Studios in 2000.

Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company

It is believed that the family of the alleged mastermind of the scam Janet Lim-Napoles owned a condominium unit in the building said to be worth $2 million.

Roly

He is injured in a car accident caused by a drunk Pete Beale (Peter Dean) and is nearly burnt alive (along with Sharon) when Grant torches The Vic in an insurance scam.

Scam title

A common scam is to charge a fee 'gain a title' which in reality amounts to an explanation of how to change your name by Deed poll.

Shriprakash Jaiswal

Shriprakash Jaiswal who mostly stayed out of the political spats and media, came into limelight when the scam, Indian coal allocation scam got highlighted all over media through a leaked Report of Comptroller and Auditor General of India(CAG) in August 2012.

Springer Hoax

The Springer Hoax was a scam starting in the mid 19th century, often using a phony genealogy in various ways to collect money based on the supposed estate of prominent colonialist Carl Christopher/Christoffersson Springer and debts said to be owed to him by various government agencies of Wilmington, Delaware and Stockholm, Sweden.

The Half Brother

Soon Vera has another child, whom they name Barnum Nilsen, after the master scam artist P. T. Barnum.

Tim Teufel

In December, 2010, Teufel was sued for $1.2 million by Irving Picard for bogus profits he received from the Madoff scam.

Tipster

An individual following such tips would be "beating the bookie" by winning a greater number of times than the odds for each bet would suggest was likely, however, many tipping services are scam operations that play on the addictive nature of betting.

Waziri

The family name of Farida Mzamber Waziri, Chairman of Nigeria's Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and mentioned in many scam emails


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