On this view, the privatizations of the 1990 s were a scam serving only the powers that be.

Today, the scam has been turned on its head chess playing machines pretend to be chess playing humans.

A gigantic, ministerial level scam in the mobile telephone sector had siphoned off many billions of dollars to a corrupt politician.

Eddie s accompanying flattery aside, I would normally trash such a letter, figuring it was a fraud or scam of some kind.

The new system will attract scam artists and promoters who will encourage unsuitable companies to seek investment and oversell the companies to individuals who can't afford to lose the money that they invest.

The options backdating scandal that recently caught Apple s chairman, Steve Jobs, is a microcosm of innovation, prosecution, and reform now that a rule has been written to prohibit backdating, this particular scam will not happen again.

When news broke that the government of Uganda intends to use 1 trillion shillings (US 300 million) of taxpayer money to bail out defaulting businesses, Ugandans on Twitter called the move a 'scam and suggested the bailout money go towards Uganda's neglected public schools instead.

Amira AlTahawi who lost her job over exposing the fake virginity scam believes that The Egyptian government is threatening to kill demonstrators the same way they killed the refugees No one from the ruling party objected to what was said? No one called for taking it off the official records?

The brilliant swindler had declared himself the cacique of Poyais, after the Miskito king Frederik Augustus in 1820 had handed over to him immense swathes of land (12,500 square miles) so he could establish there a huge monarchical state, what actually ended up being the biggest international scam of the 19th century.