Scams Scam's Lexicon


Scammer's Scam Glossary


Scam's Lexicon
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Firewall

It is a device or set of devices configured to permit, deny, encrypt, decrypt, or proxy all computer traffic between different security domains based upon a set of rules. Or in simply words , body gaurds of our computer, any request in or out are monitored.

Fraud

A scam meant to cheat victims out of the fair settlement of an agreement by misleading and misrepresenting the facts, method or outcome, with no intent to fulfill the agreement.

Fudiciary Officer

A misspelling of “Fiduciary officer”. Scammers, being largely uneducated criminals, frequently misspell this in their scams. No legitimate company would make this mistake!

Flash Money

Virtual money that appears temporarily in a victim's bank account as per the deposit of a fake check or a fraudulent electronic transfer to make the victim believe that the scammer is legitimate.Generally the scammer says the victim to send him a percentage of the flash money as real money, usually by money transfer.The tough time begins for the victim only when the bank charges him after discovering the original cheque or electronic transfer to be fraudulent.

Format

One of the scam category.eg:Wash-Wash format,Inheritance Format etc

Fat Boris

Same as Tranny.

False negative

The anti-spam software is unable to recognize the spam message as spam.

False positive

When anti-spam software incorrectly recognized as a genuine message as spam.