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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

    What sort of a scam is this?

    This was a link I followed from Twitter, promising amazing results in covering up car scratch damage. https://www.zerylan.com/products/capray?twclid=2-49idrvjtt8bz6yzbthfm6c222 The web site says "available in all car colours" which seemed improbable, and the appearance of the spray bottle...
  2. Rolfe

    Road tax scam

    New one on me, by email. If I didn't already know I owe no road tax, it's not even a very well-done scam. The email address that it's from is more than suspect. [email protected] for crying out loud. Like that's going to be one the DVLA use. And in the bottom field you can see the url...
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  3. 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...
  4. 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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