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Fraud
Multi-Level
Marketing
"Buy 1 for yourself and get the chance to sell your friends
and family 5 and get your downline started!" We examine the
multi-level marketing industry, where only the people who come up
with the ideas make any money, and everybody else is left unhappy,
broke, and tired of reading scripts and selling overpriced vitamins
and similarly worthless products.
Includes: Introduction
to Multi-Level Marketing -- MLM
Message Forum -- MLM
Links -- MLM
News and Articles -- Federal
Trade Commission's "Bottom Line About Multi-Level Marketing
Plans"
NEW! -- New
site reports on 10 years on investigative research on MLM/Network
Marketing
NEW! -- The
Truth Behind the Smoke and Mirrors of Multi-Level and Network
Marketing -- and those who say they are not yet operate
exactly like one. by Winston Wu (pdf)
NEW! -- Global
Prosperity Criminal Complaint (05/04/2004) (pdf)
NEW! -- Arrest
Warrant: Andersen (05/04/2004) (pdf)
NEW! -- Arrest
Warrant: Struckman (05/04/2004) (pdf)
NEW! -- Arrest
Warrant: Lamantia (05/04/2004) (pdf)
High-Yield Investment Programs (HYIPs) & Bank Debentures
How about risk-free and guaranteed returns of 30% per week on
your investments, generated from super-secret off-balance-sheet
trading by prime European banks? Or, how about some Medium-Term
Notes issued by the U.S. Federal Reserve which are deeply discounted
so that the effective rate of return is 80% profit to you. 1933
Chinese Bonds paying 1,000% interest, anybody? All of this sounds
pretty good, but it's completely bogus and the hottest financial
scam going these days.
Offshore Planning
The best thing about having money offshore is having to visit it
occasionally. Yes, you may save a few bucks from taxes and hide
some dinero from your soon-to-be-ex-spouse, but can also get yourself
into a whole lot of trouble. Sunny climes are, after all, for shady
people. And there are lots of shady people in the offshore havens,
people who will lie, cheat and steal to get your money, and then
try to extort more money from you by threatening to turn you over
to the authorities in your home land.
Includes: Diplomatic
& Consulate Titles -- Costa
Rica Property Scams -- Unsecured
Offshore Credit Cards -- Le
Club Prive -- Hiding
Money Offshore -- Offshore
Personal / Private Banks -- Offshore
Scams Forum -- Offshore
Books & Seminars
Treasury Scams and Forgeries
Fraudulent schemes or "scams" that involve what are claimed
to be securities issued or backed by the US Treasury or any other
part of the United States Government. These scams have been directed
at banks, charities, companies, and even individuals, by individuals
or organizations seeking payment on the fraudulent securities.
Includes: Securities
Fraud Message Forum
FOREX Scams and Commodities Fraud
Tired of the stock market? Leverage your dollars into millions in
foreign currencies traded on the spot market and thousands of dollars
daily with little risk. Never mind that your FOREX trader lacks
any financial education and isn't registered with any administrative
body, as the money to be made in FOREX completely overwhelms any
slight risk that you will have. Yes, believe that and I've got some
beautiful beachfront property outside of Albuquerque to sell you.
Includes: Forex
Information -- Consumer
Advisories -- Enforcement
Bulletins -- Enforcement
Actions -- If
you have a problem with Forex or Commodities Fraud -- Securities
Fraud Message Forum
Viaticals Fraud
You buy out their insurance policy at a discount, and they get the
cash now to have money to buy medicines or hospital care. When they
die, you get a nice profit and the satisfaction of having made the
rest of somebody's life a little nicer. Unfortunately, this is a
loosely-regulated industry where scam artists sell bogus policies
and people feign illnesses to get your Quatloos now.
Includes: Securities
Fraud Message Forum -- NASD
Warning
Financial Planning
Not only are you interested in investing your Quatloos, but others
are interested in investing your Quatloos for you! Why, because
they make their Quatloos off of your Quatloos, of course. And herein
lies an inherent conflict-of-interest, which begins innocently enough
but can quickly develop into outright fraud.
NEW! -- Investor
Alerts Regarding Annuities and Insurance
NEW! -- Quatloos!
Guide to Insurance
Includes: Annuity
Abuse -- Insurance
Company Bad Faith -- Sales
Commissions & Loaded Investments -- Self-Liquidating
Loans -- Black
Holes & UFOs -- Life
Insurance to Pay Estate Taxes -- Alaskan
Trusts and Delaware Trusts -- Living
Trusts -- Investment
Fraud Forums -- Financial
Planning or Fleecing of Seniors? - Insurance Products & Investments
