What is the difference between scams, phishing and rip offs?

victimize: deprive of by deceit; "He swindled me out of my inheritance"; "She defrauded the customers who trusted her"; "the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change"

# a fraudulent business scheme



In the field of computer security, phishing is the criminally fraudulent process of attempting to acquire sensitive information such as usernames



A ripoff (or rip-off) is a bad deal. Usually it refers to an incident in which a person pays too much for something. A ripoff is distinguished from a scam in that a scam involves wrongdoing such as fraud; a ripoff, on the other hand, is in the eye of the beholder.

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