is 2010 the year of scam?

As the year drew to an end, the nation was left agape after it learnt that two terse abbreviations, 2G and CWG, had rustled up among them a loot haul of nearly Rs 2,00,000 crore.Add to these, the sleaze and sweat of some dubious equity, and you have the cherry on the cake in the form of the IPL.The scam with the shortest name -- 2G -- alone, according to various accounts, deprived the government coffers of Rs 1.76 lakh crore in potential revenue.2G is the short for second generation mobile telephony and it ran into a cloud over the allocation of spectrum, or radio waves, at prices that were not market-determined.Abbreviations were hot favourites for not just scams, but also for the likes of whistleblower website Wikileaks, with Wiki standing for 'What I Know Is'.