scam的意思|scam的解释-里氏词典

scam [skæm]

n. 诡计,故事

scam

[ noun ]

a fraudulent business scheme

<noun.act>

[ verb ]

Even in New York, where a new scam comes along about as often as a puff of pollution from New Jersey, this is one for the books: They're scalping lox.
The scam was carried out by paying a brokerage artificially high commissions on stock transactions that were made with pension funds, prosecutors said.
But in the last few weeks Caritas has several times failed to pay out, hitting investor confidence. Caritas appears to be a classic Ponzi scam, named after Mr Charles Ponzi, an Italian immigrant operating in Boston just after the first world war.
A popular tax scam of the 1970s was created by Karl L. Dahlstrom; he told clients to hide assets and income under tiers of foreign trusts and got up to $12,000 for such advice.
HIT with $18.9 million verdict arising from a scam.
Billie Sol Estes, a confidant of Lyndon Johnson who went to prison for a fertilizer-tank scam in the 1960s, has filed for bankruptcy, claiming debts of $52 million and assets of just $150.
Corporate investigation agencies, such as London-based Carratu International, are called in to uncover the people behind the scam. 'Their inquiries often enable us to bring pressure to bear on the offenders in other ways,' says Leathes.
Some prosecutors worry that the scam artists have shown ability to stay a jump ahead of the efforts to stop them.
The show's premise is that four intelligent, honest men suckered by a crooked financier can combine their talents to scam their money back from him _ but "not a penny more, not a penny less." Ed Asner plays the crook.
The PR firms were later told of the scam and were paid for their time and advice.
Federal authorities are investigating a scam against banks by customers paying off loans using worthless certified drafts drawn on Mexican banks.
Officials began looking into the scam after emergency room doctors reported that junkies were showing up with "half their blood supply gone," said Hoover.
The case remains to be tested in court, of course, but if the allegations hold up the Senators were defending a classic scam.
Corey Carrier portrays an eight-year-old pawn in a child-pornography scam that ends up delivering him into the hands of his would-be seducer.
An indictment alleges Friedland, a disbarred attorney, engineered the second scam while working as a government informant.
Equally incredible, regulators say, is the fact that banks sometimes fall for the most audacious of scam artists.
He also agreed to testify against others indicted in an alleged securities scam.
LOUIS _ Sentencing for Paul Koerner, investment adviser convicted of masterminding platinum investing scam in 1986 in several states.
Prosecutors say charges against a Food and Drug Administration chemist and a drug company executive are the first in a probe of government and industry officials in a generic drug-approval scam.
The FTC declined to comment on its investigations, but Michael Levey, who is host of "Amazing Discoveries" as well as president of Positive Response Television, its producer, says: "We turn down all scam products."
And scam artists have learned to take advantage of the insurers' computerized claims operations.
On Wednesday, former Detective David Greenberg was charged in a $350,000 insurance scam.
His downfall was prompted by charges by his brother Pedro that he was running a corruption scam, an accusation against which he has presented no real defence.
Now comes "a perfidious twist" on the usual individual scam, says Tax Court Judge Parker.
A New York financier and a Florida businessman pleaded innocent Thursday to a massive tax fraud scam in which they allegedly faked more than $38 billion in trades in U.S. government securities.
One scam, run by another podiatrist, was advertised on fliers at a city high school.
For example, officials say they have known for months about a scam involving raisins, in which phony prices are recorded by European importers for shiploads of dried grapes.
Authorities are investigating an Israeli general for complicity in a draft-dodging scam that has raised a furor in this country, Israel radio reported today.
He, Constanzo and Constanzo's right-hand man allegedly stole the cocaine in a complicated scam that involved posing as U.S. drug agents.
British Telecom, the telephone company, estimates the scam has cost it about $52,000 in the past several months.

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