Word: scamming
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...appraisal? "Smart! Innovative! Fine performances all around! A scam...
...narrator, then, is real -- whatever that might mean in a work of fiction -- but is the other Philip Roth some sort of con man or scam artist or lunatic exploiting a reputation not his own? Or might it be the other way around? Even to frame such a question is to play and plunge helplessly into Roth's game...
Overseas job agencies deny any wrongdoing, saying they make no promises. "Roblan emphatically does not guarantee jobs," says Roblan's attorney Andrew Cove. Universal Placement Inc., one of the firms sued by Florida, says it provides an honest resume and referral service and claims that job-scam artists are hurting legitimate companies. "We all get painted with the same black brush as companies that run job scams," says Jack Thav, the company's executive vice president...
...leery of promises that he would have a job in Cancun, Mexico, in three months. When he could find no complaints on file with the Better Business Bureau, he and a friend sent a $295 joint fee. All they got for it was the runaround. "I figured it was scam, but I took a chance," says Deaver with a sigh. "The moral is, of course, if it sounds too good to be true, it probably...
...DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, the FBI, U.S. Customs and several U.S. Attorneys are investigating a scam in which parts so seriously damaged that they could cause a crash were nearly installed in U.S. airliners. Because many components of military jets are interchangeable with those of commercial jetliners, unscrupulous dealers have somehow passed off parts from jets shot up in the Gulf War as acceptable commercial spares. Truckloads of such components have been seized, some with shrapnel and gaping bullet holes. Investigators found critical engine parts so badly damaged that they would have fallen apart within two hours if used...