Outsmarting the Scam Artists: How to Protect Yourself From the Most Clever ConsA 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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Regardless of what is being sold, the “$150,000/yr possible” claim generates
thousands of phone calls and in this case, all the calls were going to a south
Florida business called All American Pay Phones (not its real name). While pay
phones ...
He could barely go a week without 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 ...
Edwards says that not everyone in the boiler rooms he worked in had such
severe drug addiction 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 ...
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Cuprins
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The Con Artists Central Strategy | 19 |
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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