Scams 4 Suckers
By Valerie Shaw, M.PR
I'm not proud to admit
it, but I've been a sucker for a con game more times
than I'd like to admit. From clumsy something-for-nothing
scams to smooth business swindles, I've lost what
must amount to a third of my life's earnings to men
and women with larceny in their hearts.
For real, I've been
played harder than an inner city basketball. Why,
if it weren't for my loving mother and father-who
have boundless forgiveness-I'm sure that I'd be living
on the streets somewhere in the big city instead of
writing you today.
No one needs to be such
a big dummy. Learn from someone else's mistakes for
goodness sakes! And learn from the experts. Just say
no to becoming fraud fodder, con cuisine, or bunco
bait. Here's my contribution to your well being; my
effort to help you from becoming a victim. Stay tuned
for updates, and please feel free to contribute your
two-cents!
© Valerie Shaw 2004 - All Rights
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Links To A Scam-Free
Life
Scams and Con Games,
at http://www.crimedoctor.com/scams.htm,
gives you the 4-1-1 on telephone fraud, bunco scams,
false advertising, credit repair and other illegal
ways the criminally-minded have concocted to part
you with your money. By Chris E. McGoey, the Crime
Doctor™
http://www.ci.mesa.az.us/police/fraud/default.asp
Con Games, Fraud Schemes and Sweepstakes Scams laid
out in alphabetical order, by the Mesa Arizona Police
Dept.
The National Crime
Prevention Council at
http://www.ncpc.org/cms/cms-upload/ncpc/files/spotcon.pdf
brings you an explanation of how confidence artists
work and what to do about it.
http://www2.ncsu.edu/ncsu/public_safety/Education/prevention/congames.html
The emphasis here is on prevention, brought to you
by North Carolina State University, Department of
Public Safety.
Cyberscams anyone?
Don't think that the bad guys are all Internet-illiterate.
Check out Cyber Criminals Most Wanted at http://www.ccmostwanted.com/
, billed as the first one-stop cybercrime awareness,
prevention and safety website.
Quatloos.com
at http://www.quatloos.com/
is a maintained by Financial and Tax Fraud Education
Associates, Inc., a California non-profit public educational
website covering a wide variety of financial scams
and frauds, including wacky "prime bank"
frauds, exotic foreign currency scams, offshore investment
frauds, tax scams, "Pure Trust" structures
and more.
Hot! Hot! Hot! Les Henderson's Crimes Of
Persuasion website, at
http://www.crimes-of-persuasion.com/, casts a
wide net over anyone who would steal your money. Here
you'll find everything you need to know about scams
for suckers like me to keep you from becoming one!
Hint: Start with their "Quick Tour" at http://www.crimes-of-persuasion.com/contents.htm
and you'll begin to see the endless ways some folks
have to part you with your money. Kudos to Les Henderson,
a tireless crusader for our new CivilWEzation.
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