Word: scamming
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...County coroner's office, as Hall's sister. Later, authorities discovered there was no sister. Sharon Hall had used the coroner's death certificate to fake her own demise, sidetracking creditors and probation officers who were on her trail. Hall was sentenced to two years in prison for the scam; her mother got 16 months...
...year-old man named Carlos ("Named after my cat," says Randi). One of Channeler Jose's most significant quotes: "All answers are yes, and all questions can be answered thus." Then, on national television, Randi disclosed that he had orchestrated the entire performance as a scam designed to enhance skepticism Down Under. Most Australians were amused, but channeling devotees petulantly insisted that the episode proved nothing...
...much bigger target: First Chicago. His contact was a cousin, Herschel Bailey, 30, who knew Otis Wilson, 30, a clerk at the bank. Wilson introduced Taylor to Moore and by last month the group included Neal Jackson, 31, Leonard Strickland, 49, and Ronald Carson, 40. They plotted their scam at meetings in a Quality Inn on Chicago's west side...
...answered. The shrewdness in her performance is clear, but so, alas, is her thinking process: she lacks ease and naturalness. Mantegna, by contrast, superbly manages his character's clashing mental states. Silver is captivating, especially in a second-act tantrum that is equal parts rage, hurt, con-artist scam and genuine grief at a betrayal...
...bounce. But disintegrate? Several banks, including at least two in Illinois and one in Tennessee, have unwittingly accepted checks coated with a chemical that made them begin to deteriorate within hours after being deposited. In a few days they were little more than confetti. One or more unidentified scam artists have passed at least 14 such checks, cheating the banks out of some...