Archive for 'Fraud & Scams'

MLM Company Team Everest Update

Posted on 25. Jun, 2006 by .

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As you may or may not know, my former post on the MLM company Team Everest has created quite a stir. Granted, members of the company offended by my previous comments have created most of the stir, but it has created a stir nonetheless. Apparently when searching for ‘Team Everest’ with Google my post on [...]

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Offers Too Good To Be True

Posted on 20. Jun, 2006 by .

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Have you ever encountered an offer too good to be true and asked yourself how someone could pull it off? I asked myself that same question about 18 months ago when I visited Mixitforme.com and purchased a new 20GB iPod color for $150. When I first saw the deal I thought to myself, “there has [...]

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My Experiences with Mutli-Level Marketing Brainwashing

Posted on 12. Jun, 2006 by .

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Granted, there have been a few fairly successful Multi-Level Marketing companies over the years but for the most part MLM companies succeed only at making the founders rich while filling participants’ garages with boxes of unsellable and sometimes unuseable products. For this reason I despise MLM companies and have done quite a bit of research [...]

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Justice is Not Dead – Yet

Posted on 26. May, 2006 by .

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It just goes to show you: if you’re the head of the nation’s 7th largest company and your company is labeled as the biggest fraud scandal ever with over $60 BILLION lost and you try and plead ignorance, the good people of America are not going to listen to your crap. If you haven’t heard [...]

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Phishing and Pharming Presentation

Posted on 25. Apr, 2006 by .

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As part of my Accounting Fraud final I created a 30-45 min presentation on Phishing and Pharming including how to detect it, how much harm it does, and how to prevent from being scammed. I thought I’d throw it up here just in case someone here wanted to watch it or show some friends who [...]

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