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Similar to "queer the deal;" to somehow cock up a flawless plan with stupidity and/or incompetence.
I was all set to take that girl home last night, but her fat friend managed to fag the scam.
Ross had everything lined up to buy a house, but the bank found out he was broke and fagged the scam.
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when you get an email from someone in Nigeria, who pretends to have been involved in some sort of coup de etat or related to some bigwig or something and says he's got the loot and needs a place to hide it, like your bank account and then they butter you up saying they got your name because you are known to be honest or some shit. They talk all weird and foreign and misspell stuff, to make you think that THEY are the gullible one.
They offer you a couple of million to store the ten million or so and then when you bite, they try to get your bank account info so they can steal your identity. If you are stupid enough, they'll have you writing them checks (or "advance fees") and they'll just keep stringing you along saying something went wrong and send more money.
Worst case scenario: they get you to fly over there. Never do that. Once you are in their clutches, you're, well, in their clutches.
Nigerian scam letter:
Dear Sir:
First I must solicit your confidence in this transaction. This is by virtue of its nature as being utterly confidential and top secret. We are top officials of the Federal Government Contract Review Panel who are interested in importation of goods into our country with funds which are presently trapped in Nigeria. In order to commence this business we solicit your assistance to enable us RECIEVE the said trapped funds ABROAD.
The source of this fund is as follows : During the regime of our late head of state, Gen. Sani Abacha, the government officials set up companies and awarded themselves contracts which were grossly over-invoiced in various Ministries. The NEW CIVILIAN Government set up a Contract Review Panel (C.R.P) and we have identified a lot of inflated contract funds which are presently floating in the Central Bank of Nigeria (C.B.N).
However, due to our position as civil servants and members of this panel, we cannot acquire this money in our names. I have therefore, been delegated as a matter of trust by my colleagues of the panel to look for an Overseas partner INTO whose ACCOUNT the sum of US$31,000,000.00 (Thirty one Million United States Dollars) WILL BE PAID BY TELEGRAPHIC TRANSFER. Hence we are writing you this letter.We have agreed to share the money thus:
70% for us (the officials)
20% for the FOREIGN PARTNER (you)
10% to be used in settling taxation and all local and foreign expenses.
A SUITABLE NAME AND BANK ACCOUNT INTO WHICH THE FUNDS CAN BE PAID. PLEASE ENDEAVOUR TO RESPOND BY TELEPHONE OR FAX.
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A nordjysk scam is when someone tells a lie or scams you and they have to be in nordjylland at the same time
Oh no my friend teitur said he would give back the money he owed me but he didnt what a nordjysk scam!
When someone build up alot of trust and reputation then scam a big trade.
dude 1: hey dude did you hear the moderator of a trading side scammed a bunch of people for alot of money
dude 2: yeah it was an exit scam
An act that turns out to be against one's own best interests. A self-scam can often be a decision which creates more problems than it solves, or that causes more trouble than it's worth. Often used to describe actions that turn out to be bad financially, or that are time-inefficient.
Buying a car is a huge financial liability. It is basically a self-scam.
I realized the module I created was more of a self-scam, because it adds a bunch of new bugs to the codebase.
Stress is just a self-scam. It does not speed up the work, and causes more mistakes.
Any "business" plan that is a scam and completely fake. Usually involves the employee (a.k.a. the sucker) to pay the employer, rather than the other way around. Most notable for the use of the pyramid method of gaining money: you start by suckering one of your friends to dish out his money, then he gets one of his friends to do the same, until all your friends are broke and pissed off at you.
Have you been to that pyramid scam website? www.2by2.cult.
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Fake profiles on dating sites to get people to join. Yahoo Personals was sued for their romance scams. Most dating sites, if not all of them, have many fake profiles to get people to pay, or, for sites that are free, it gets people to sign up and bring a lot of traffic to their site, making the businesses gain profit from their advertisers. Plenty of Fish, a free dating website, is full of romance scams.
Think about how a personals website starts if it starts with zero members. Who would sign up? It is theorized all dating sites start out with and continue to have romance scams. It is an unethical, yet very effective way for their business to make money.
Don't sign up for Plenty of Fish--you will waste most of your time with romance scams.
Most, if not all, of the beautiful women on dating sites are more than likely romance scams.
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