Word: scammed
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...just an utter shock," Oxnam tells TIME, "as if an earthquake had just hit. My second reaction was that this was hogwash. It had to be a doctor pulling a scam." Eventually he accepted the diagnosis, and Smith began teasing out the hidden personalities, helping Oxnam discover them one by one. In order to help others who might be suffering--and, says Oxnam, "to offer a look at the multiple nature that is in all of us"--he wrote A Fractured Mind...
...civil servant and 10 alleged accomplices with embezzling millions of dollars in relief funds. While Bureau investigators acknowledge Goswami was an efficient aid distributor who did help flood victims, they add that, as the official who authorized payments to relief suppliers, he was the chief facilitator of a scam to overcharge the government by $4.5 million. Bihar's Additional Director General (Vigilance) Neelmani has also charged Goswami with embezzling a further $3.9 million (not flood relief money) intended for state charities. When the initial accusations surfaced in the Indian Express newspaper in April, Goswami denied them. He has made...
Vaghar—who, according to friends at Harvard, frequented final clubs and partook in the undergraduate social scene before leaving the Extension School—admitted to running a real estate scam in which she used made-up e-mail addresses and fake bank accounts when subletting apartments to unsuspecting tenants. Over the course of a year, she allegedly defrauded at least 15 victims out of tens of thousands of dollars...
...alleged scam involved listing her Cambridge apartment for rent on Craigslist.com, convincing interested renters to pay her the first and last month’s rent, and then at the last minute making up sob stories—such as the death or sickness of a parent—to back out of the deal. The scam left victims struggling for months with a trail of excuses and bad checks in an effort to recover their money...
According to Shannon S. Christmas ’04, a victim of Vaghar’s scam who was present at the Sept. 9 hearing where she was sentenced, Vaghar, accompanied by her parents, remained unemotional as she spoke to District Court Judge Jonathan Brant...