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A scam, or a confidence trick, is an attempt to defraud a person or group after first gaining their trust. Confidence tricks exploit victims using a combination of the victim's credulity, naïveté, compassion, vanity, confidence, irresponsibility, and greed. Researchers have defined confidence tricks as "a distinctive species of fraudulent conduct ... intending to further voluntary exchanges that are not mutually beneficial", as they "benefit con operators ('con men') at the expense of their victims (the 'marks')".

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  1. Rolfe

    Parking ticket by text - convincing scam

    I just received a text demanding payment of a parking ticket. All the pages look kosher, but the url of the link from the text is gobbledegook, and the url of the page for payment is parkingca.top/billing and not a government url. It's only £20, which I found surprising because on previous...
  2. Big Ears

    This is really scary stuff

    https://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/nca-shuts-down-major-fraud-platform-responsible-for-1-8-million-scam-calls
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