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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... going to a south Florida business called All American Pay Phones (not its real name). While pay phones have gone the way of the eight-track cassette and may seem dated, the techniques used to scam people have not changed over time. Our ...
... going on a run and smoking $2,000 to $3,000 worth of crack, winding up in a hotel room somewhere with us having to go find him or sending somebody out to pull him out of the hotel room, get him cleaned up, and get him back into his seat ...
... going on, but almost all of them had some kind of addiction. “I would say 80 to 90 percent of the people I worked with in these boiler rooms were addicted to something: alcohol, pot, barbiturates, coke, heroin. It just kind of came with ...
... going to take you up on that fly and buy, but I'm going to drive.” And 48 hours later, 9 o'clock in the morning, I come 10 If drugs and alcohol were a constant presence in fraud boiler rooms, there was clearly one thing missing ...
... going through the inevitable rejection of calling 200 people a day and getting hung up on 150 of those 200 times. Mike Harris, who worked in fraudulent oil and gas boiler rooms for nearly a decade, said it was a real macho culture. “You ...
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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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