# Rip-off artist

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## Definition

Providers who use a variety of dubious methods to persuade people to sign a contract against their will, although the criminal law requirements of fraud do not necessarily have to be met. However, because rip-off artists usually use a bank to pay the customer they have acquired in this way, the relevant institutions also come under suspicion of supporting the rip-off artists' schemes. The supervisory authorities can only point out such questionable business relationships to banks, but cannot order the account to be terminated. - See Beschores, cold calling, daimonion, darkrooming, domicile concealment, financial forums, financial vultures, money suckers, gold deception, capital market, gray, lie-and-deceive thesis, avenging angels, spam e-mails, wire transfer fraud, angle brokers. - Cf. BaFin Annual Report 2009, p. 242 f. (BaFin cannot intervene directly; rip-off artists successfully defend themselves in court against account termination). Attention: The financial encyclopedia is protected by copyright and may only be used for private purposes without express consent! University Professor Dr. Gerhard Merk, Dipl.rer.pol., Dipl.rer.oec. Professor Dr. Eckehard Krah, Dipl.rer.pol. E-mail address: info@ekrah.com https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Ernst_Merk https://www.jung-stilling-gesellschaft.de/merk/ https://www.gerhardmerk.de/

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