Outsmarting the Scam Artists: How to Protect Yourself From the Most Clever ConsJohn Wiley & Sons, 30 ian. 2012 - 208 pagini A practical guide to avoiding the most common scams, from a fraud-fighting expert U.S. consumers lose billions of dollars each year to scam artists—and the next victim could be you. While anyone can be targeted, many victims are older. In AARP's Outsmarting the Scam Artists, renowned fraud-fighter Doug Shadel offers practical advice for consumers who want to protect their money as well as the financial assets of their parents and families. Despite the rise of scams, many people are embarrassed to admit they've been victimized. The author helps break the cycle of shame by including accounts from the people who've been scammed as well as tips from a surprising source: convicted con artists who reveal how they've defrauded people like you.
Scammers are everywhere. But with Outsmarting the Scam Artists in hand, you can protect yourself and your money. |
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... dollars. Two years later, he had lost nearly $650,000 of it to an oil and gas scam out of Dallas, Texas. They also haven't met Steve Johnson, a 20-year veteran stockbroker who got to age 58 and saw that his 401(k) was not sufficient to ...
... dollars from American investors and consumers. Most of these cons insisted on hiding their identity, so we have given them each a pseudonym (see “Meet the Cons”). What are they saying? In reviewing hundreds of pages of interview ...
... dollars worth of crack and hookers and cabs and pipes and everything else that comes with what you are doing when you are smoking crack in a hotel room . . . he'd go through every penny. Then there was Karl. Karl was a dope shooter like ...
... dollars. Heyman stayed at all the finest hotels and was accompanied by an entourage of servants. She even had a personal physician and wore only the finest clothes to complete the picture of wealthy heiress. In one of the earliest forms ...
... of running a fraudulent movie deal boiler room. In the end, he took in more than 15 $20 million dollars from 800 investors and spent much of c01.inddc01.indd 1515 20/01/1220/01/12 10:4210:42 AMAM Inside the Con Artist's Mind.
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The Stages of Fraud | 29 |
The OilandGas Scam | 49 |
The Religious Ponzi Scam | 63 |
The Gold Coin Scam | 77 |
The Movie Scam | 85 |
The Business | 93 |
An Interview with | 117 |
Who Are the Victims? | 129 |
Become a Fraud Fighter | 145 |
Fraud Prevention That Works | 159 |
Appendix A The FraudVulnerability Quiz | 173 |
Notes | 181 |
Index | 187 |
The Lottery Scam | 107 |
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