Scams 4 Suckers
Links To A Swindle-Free Life
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 Reserved
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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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