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What's the scam?
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What's the scam? and What's the deal?
Sl. What is going on around here? (Often implies that something seems to be wrong.) There's a big rumpus down the hall. What's the scam? I gave you a twenty, and you give me five back? What's the deal? Where's my other five?


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The Make Money Fast chain letter was an email forwarded chain letter that was a scam and no money actually came from it Further it has since been a term that insiders into the computer industry have joked about and said that if something is impossible then it is a Make Money Fast scam The Make Money Fast chain letter was an email forwarded chain letter that was a scam and no money actually came from it.
The Nigerian scam also known as the 419 fraud is one of the most prevalent and popular It started in the early 1980s The Nigerian scam also known as the 419 fraud is one of the most prevalent and popular.
HUNDREDS of items of scam mail have been handed in to Gateshead Council since it started a scheme to combat them earlier this year.
 
 
 
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