grub up v. phr.— «Under a scheme to start in August 2008, if EU agriculture ministers agree, subsidies to uproot vineyards—or “grub up,” in EU parlance—would fall gradually each year in a carrot-and-stick approach to promote early “take-up...
sell away v. phr.— «Lovegren persuaded clients to put money into his schemes, a practice called “selling away” in the brokerage industry. The investments amounted to little more than a Ponzi scheme in which no real investments are made, she said...
press trap n.— «Vircom, which recently published a report on a well-known spamming scheme called, “Pump and dump,” or “Hype and Dump Manipulation,” said spammers are now using a technique called a “Press Trap” to get people to read these e-mails...
ink blot strategy n.— «In effect, the scheme is a version of the “ink blot” counterinsurgency strategy of grabbing a piece of terrain, stabilizing it and gradually expanding it.» —“Battle for Baghdad Boils Down to Grabbing a Slice at a Time” by...
yahoo-yahoo boy n.— «Today, the con usually relies on e-mail and is often called a 419 scheme after the anti-fraud section of the criminal code in Nigeria, where it flourishes.…The scammers, who often operate in crime rings, are known as “yahoo...
hot bed v. phr.— «While prisoners are out, their cells will be given to other inmates in what is called “hot bedding.” That will allow prison bosses to increase the total number of inmates in the country’s two open prisons from the current 400 to...