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| name = Scams and confidence tricks
| title = Scams and confidence tricks
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| group1 = Terminology
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| group2 = Variants
| list2 =
- Advance-fee scam
- Art student scam
- Badger game
- Bait-and-switch
- Black money scam
- Blessing scam
- Bogus escrow
- Boiler room
- Bride scam
- Charity fraud
- Clip joint
- Coin-matching game
- Coin rolling scams
- Drop swindle
- Embarrassing cheque
- Exit scam
- Extraterrestrial real estate
- Fiddle game
- Fine print
- Foreclosure rescue scheme
- Foreign exchange fraud
- Fortune telling fraud
- Gem scam
- Get-rich-quick scheme
- Green goods scam
- Hustling
- Indian coal allocation scam
- IRS impersonation scam
- Intellectual property scams
- Kansas City Shuffle
- Locksmith scam
- Long firm
- Medical quackery
- Mismarking
- Mock auction
- Moving scam
- Overpayment scam
- Patent safe
- Pig in a poke
- Pigeon drop
- Pork barrel
- Pump and dump
- Redemption/A4V schemes
- Reloading scam
- Return fraud
- Salting
- Shell game
- Sick baby hoax
- SIM swap scam
- Slavery reparations scam
- Spanish Prisoner
- SSA impersonation scam
- SSC Scam
- Strip search phone call scam
- Swampland in Florida
- Tarmac scam
- Technical support scam
- Telemarketing fraud
- Thai tailor scam
- Thai zig zag scam
- Three-card monte
- Trojan horse
- Wash trading
- White van speaker scam
- Work-at-home scheme
| group3 = Internet scams and
countermeasures
| list3 =
- Avalanche
- Pig Butchering
- Carding
- Catfishing
- Click fraud
- Clickjacking
- Cramming
- Cryptocurrency scams
- Cybercrime
- CyberThrill
- DarkMarket
- Domain name scams
- Email authentication
- Email fraud
- Internet vigilantism
- Lenny anti-scam bot
- Lottery scam
- PayPai
- Phishing
- Referer spoofing
- Ripoff Report
- Rock Phish
- Romance scam
- Russian Business Network
- SaferNet
- Scam baiting
- 419eater.com
- Jim Browning
- Kitboga
- Scammer Payback
- ShadowCrew
- Spoofed URL
- Spoofing attack
- Stock Generation
- Voice phishing
- Website reputation ratings
| group4 = Pyramid and
Ponzi schemes
| list4 =
- Aman Futures Group
- Bernard Cornfeld
- Caritas
- Dona Branca
- Earl Jones
- Ezubao
- Foundation for New Era Philanthropy
- Franchise fraud
- High-yield investment program (HYIP)
- Investors Overseas Service
- Kapa investment scam
- Kubus scheme
- Madoff investment scandal
- Make Money Fast
- Matrix scheme
- MMM
- Petters Group Worldwide
- Pyramid schemes in Albania
- Reed Slatkin
- Saradha Group financial scandal
- Secret Sister
- Scott W. Rothstein
- Stanford Financial Group
- Welsh Thrasher faith scam
- WinCapita
| group5 = Lists
| list5 =
- Con artists
- Confidence tricks
- Criminal enterprises, gangs and syndicates
- Impostors
- In the media
- Film and television
- Literature
- Ponzi schemes
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