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  • Con Men Internet Scams: How To Earn a College Degree Without Earning a College Degree - What's a diploma mill? Explanation is right at your finger tips. Just check out the entry in Webster's Third New International Dictionary: "Diploma mill: An institution of higher education operating without supervision of a state or professional agency and granting diplomas which are either fraudulent or, because of the lack of proper standards, worthless..." Many con men have found the lucrative field of diploma mills - or degree mills - to be as good as gold. In pursuing this line of con man endeavor they simply practice Harley's First Law: You can lead a horse to water, but if you can get him to float on his back, you've got something. Think of how ridiculous this whole concept is: just apply on the internet for a college degree and in a finger-snap moment, when accompanied by a small fee, you have it.
  • Con Man's Version of the Living Trust? Little Known Secrets - Eat well, stay fit, die anyway. This is the reality you must face when contemplating a living trust. Important, if you are contemplating this form of legal instrument: the good, the bad, the needed, and the unneeded of the Intro Vivos Trust, must be considered. Be careful of the differences. Have you been approached by a telemarketing trust-hustler, an at-your-doorstep quick-buck con man, or been intrigued by an internet ad on this subject? If so, hold up. Slow down. Wait. There are many factors to consider before committing all of your assets to one of these supposed ease-of-estate-conveyance instruments, particularly when offered by one of the above described purveyors.
  • Con Man's Word Games - Don't be Fooled by a Carnival Barker Pitch - Seemingly eons ago, the word, "mark," was born. It was in the 19th century era of the carnival barker that the practice of labeling "marks" originated. Once a victim proved his suckerhood, a shell games operator would slap him on the back with a chalk-filled hand, thus making him identifiable to the other crooked operators on the midway.
  • Legal Thriller Author Reveals Easy Ways to Spot Natural Disaster Rip-Offs - Amateur con artists of all stripes find that conning the government is the easiest scam of all Finagle's Law of Bureaucracy: The first myth of management efficiency is that it exists, worked well for the exploiters of Hurricane Katrina. When Hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans in 2005, rank amateur con artists had a field day, not even needing the benefits of any particular rip-off training. Collectively they ripped about everything ripable from FEMA's pockets, including the lining.
  • Legal Thriller Author Explores Identity Theft - You Don't Have to be a Victim - Your luck doesn't have to be so bad as the California man, who, in a series of unrelated events, was hit by a car on Sunday, mugged on Monday, and shot on Tuesday. But, if you lose your identity to a con man, your foul luck level could be close. With a con man-launched barrage, stolen identities are rising at a rate of up to 10,000,000 per year, creating a problem that is now approaching crisis proportions. If we were a fire-eating, Bible-thumping preacher, we would deliver our sermon something like quoting from a legal thriller, something like this: Con men everywhere are taking rifle-shot focus on a very specific target: your social security number.
  • Con Men Rejection - How to Protect Yourself: Test Your Home Habits First - Wrong choices in your home financial management would be like taking on a stock broker who is the Uncle Fester of portfolio styling You might be extending an open invitation to con men and not even know it. This self-check of your personal habits could reveal this tendency. Do you have the proper armor to resist the advances of con men? First step toward self-protection against them is a look-in-the-mirror analysis of your own personal habits. And, these all begin at home.
  • Scam Artist or Ethical Stock Broker - How You Can Tell the Difference? - The quickest way to tell if your stock broker is a scam artist, using your account for broker profits rather than yours, is to look for evidence of "churning.
  • Legal Thriller Author Reveals 24 Amazing Scam Artists' Conflict Resolution Steps - Fighting off skeptics as a means of "group control" is psychologically important to the scam artist. In every group of victims, the scam artist's problem is that he must always be able to adequately "handle" those few skeptics who will emerge to plague him. A much different setting than when he's dealing with a single mark.
  • Legal Thriller Book Author Warns of 'Paper Trails' Scams Epidemic - Why is the con man so good at passing himself off as the most qualified authority on redemptive truth since Pontius Pilot? For the same reason Willie Sutton robbed banks, because, "that's where the money is." Money, to the scamsters, is like blood is to sharks. Unlike bank robbers, who rely on gun expertise, get-away cars, and hideouts, the polished con artist rolls the dice based on his self-presumed intellect, charisma, charm, and powers of persuasion. He is boisterous, loud. He pours it on. The result? Now , with the instant, world-wide reach of the internet to aid him, it's an eruption of shell games so severe they can only be described as an epidemic. If you must blame the messenger, it's the internet. Pure and simple. These charlatans no longer have to toil long hours beguiling the masses in person.
  • Con Man's Rapture: Mail Theft Made Easy, Compliments of Your U.S. Postal Service - Criminals regularly "case" residential neighborhoods, staking out homes that are vacant--due to vacationing, business travels, or other away-from-home reasons. Object, of course, is to, when empty, burglarize them. Identity thieves are now taking the easy way when engaging in this pastime. They simply gather up the names and addresses, fill out change-of-address forms at the Post Office, and await delivery of this mail to a new address of their choosing.
  • Legal Thriller Author Examines 15 Amazing Scam Artists' Conspiracy Theory Tricks - The best scams are built around conspiracy theories. They afford the ultimate shell game. Why? Because it gives the scam artist "cover." It fortifies him with an automatic defense against his critics. It exonerates him from past failures. And, importantly, it provides an excuse for future delays, gives him time to run for cover when everything collapses. In other words, it creates the perfect stage setting from which to operate. Overall, a well-developed conspiracy theory is a great rallying theme. It blends like minds, mutual resolve, shared purpose, goals. It breeds collective paranoia. There is, therefore, a set of basic rules the scam artist follows in producing this highly-desired atmosphere of "communal harmony" to embellish his "pitch.
  • Legal Thriller Author Dissects Con Man-Inspired Courtroom Scam - You go to the track to play the horses. Bad day. You lose $5,000. You try to recoup by buying 1,000 lottery tickets.
  • Con Man's Legal Phone Scam - 900 Phone Line Offer - Several of the 900-phone line operators are now offering to share the wealth: give you a chance to be just like them.
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