see also List_of_scams

• Ponzi Scheme (1918)
• The “Money-Box Scheme”
• Spanish Prisoner (the advance-fee scam or “Nigerian Prince”)
• Fiddle game
• Jamaican Switch / Pigeon drop
• Green goods
• Pig in a poke (cat in a bag) (late Middle Ages)
• Iraqi Dinar
• Badger game
• Clip joint
• Melon drop
• Baltimore Stockbroker
• Three-card Monte
• Diploma mill
• World Luxury Association
• Phishing
• Technical support scam
• The Affinity Church scam
• Beijing tea
• Big Store
• Change raising
• Mystery shopping
• Predatory journals
• Psychic surgery
• Rain making
• boiler-room scam
• 419 scam
• Rip deal
• Unsolicited goods
• Catfishing
• Cackle-bladder
• Kansas City shuffle‍
• Little blind mouse
• Pump and Dump‍
• Salting ‍the mine
• Toledo Panic Button‍

via Leverage

• The Lost Heir
• A Rip Deal
• The Spanish Prisoner
• The London Spank
• The Geneva Paso Doble
• The Apple Pie (“It’s like the Cherry Pie, but with lifeguards.”)
• The Cherry Pie
• Glengarry, Glen Death
• The Turnabout
• Ponzi Scheme
• The Mona Lisa Variant
• The Wire Game
• The Swedish Rail Con
• The Cairo Flyer
• The Double-Blind
• A Fiddle Game
• The Pill Scare
• The Berlin Shuffle
• Little Orphan Annie
• The Skagway Shuffle
• The Mummy’s Tiara
• The Vegas Wake-Up Call
• Like the Cuban Sandwich except “the boyfriend shows up.”
• The Cuban Sandwich
• An Edward Albee
• The Spanish Turnabout
• The Peking Watch
• The Moscow Circus
• The Romanian Circus
• The Snipe Hunt (“she’s running a variant. It’s called a Snipe Hunt. It’s the Circus, but it’s leaner and faster.”)
• The Roman Wedding
• The Peruvian Slide
• The Boca Backlash
• The Oklahoma Little Chucky
• The Chilean Custard
• The Moonwalking Bear
• The Big Store
• The MassDOT Special
• The Wicked Stepsister
• The High Minne Scam Variant
• The Lazy Dachshund
• The Pizarro Pressure Point
• The Double-Pronged Monkey Con
• A Radio Play
• The Oligschlager Shuffle
• The Arkham Ascent
• The White Van Speakers
• The White Rabbit
• A Swap-and-Whisper Campaign
• The Trojan Horse
• The Burn Scam
• The Nigerian Prince
• The Smash and Grab
• Three Card Monte
• Zanzibar Marketplace