Quotes About Scam

Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age.

You cannot con an honest man.

If a deal advertised on an unknown website looks too good to be true, it almost certainly is.

All they need to do is to set up some website somewhere selling some bogus product at twenty percent of the normal market prices and people are going to be tricked into providing their credit card numbers.

One of the things that I noticed in my private law practice was the fact that so many people had gotten ripped off and would come into my office, whether it was a scam, whether it was predatory business taking advantage of them. So when I went to the General Assembly I started working on laws that helped to protect the consumer.

Of course, aside from fear, the God business runs on sentimentality. That's the only explanation. Unless it's a real estate scam.

Religion is a group of scam artists that sell the calming idea that your body is a temple of God, while your mind belongs to them.

I tried the religion scam in Miami, so I know how hard that gig is. But, if you can get it to work, starting your own religion is a license to print money.

I had a weird situation were someone used my name to extort money from a woman. He took her for 60 or 80 thousand dollars. He is in prison now. It was on Sally.

I blew through all my money and made some very bad decisions. I had this scam artist scam me real bad and was embezzled over $175,000.

Once Count Victor Lustig, swindler par excellence, had sold dozens of suckers around the country a phony box with which he claimed to be able to copy money. Discovering

David Maurer's nonfiction work The Big Con.

DiPascali, a small terrier-like man with the unpolished speech of his native Queens, came through for Madoff. Using self-taught computer skills and the historical stock and options prices available to any brokerage firm, he created a convincing paper trail covering several years of complex trading activity that almost certainly had never occurred.

The big lock-up is about drugs. Here's the real scam. The drug war is one of the games to get more convictions and prisoners.

confidence men

The money's the same, whether you earn it or scam it.

There is a business built around racial grievance. And that business is booming at such a level that white people are like hey, I'm going to adopt a whole new identity so I can benefit from being Baby Al Sharpton, Baby Jesse Jackson, and in academia, this has been embraced and she has been able to pull off this scam.

The basis of any scam is telling people what they want to hear. If something sounds too good to be true, it probably is.

My favorite pre-Ponzi schemer was known as '520 Percent Miller' because he promised 10 percent returns a week, or 520 percent a year. Of course he was just using new investors' money to pay old investors, and soon he was on the lam.

I saw a limit to what I was giving as kind of a scam I was running on the KGB, by giving them people that I knew were their double agents fed to us.

Let's smuggle cider into the garden of Eden? Adam's apples are shite. Eve's cool. She calls it a SCAM. Smuggling Cocaine, Alcohol and Marijuana. But is the snake a grass?

Cats have a scam going - you buy the food, they eat the food, they go away that's the deal.

I figure I'm a mandolin player first and foremost, and everything else I've accomplished is just a scam.

AAP was formed to expose the Congress's scam. We could never think of an alliance with the Congress, but to fight the BJP we have to think of something like that.