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Get-rich-quick schemes are extremely varied; these include fake franchises, real estate "sure things", get-rich-quick books, wealth-building seminars, self-help gurus, sure-fire inventions, useless products, chain letters, fortune tellers, quack doctors, miracle pharmaceuticals, foreign exchange fraud, Nigerian money scams, fraudulent treasure hunts, and charms and talismans.
In an excerpt from her forthcoming book, the actress and podcaster shares how her obsession with scams "taught me how to navigate a messy and unfair world"
A Willy Wonka inspired 'Chocolate Experience' in Glasgow, Scotland, was 'where dreams go to die,' one actor hired for the event said.
Philip Aegidius Walshe (actually Montgomery Carmichael), The Life of John William Walshe, F.S.A., London, Burns & Oates, (1901); New York, E. P. Dutton (1902). This book was presented as a son’s story of his father’s life in Italy as “a profound mystic and student of everything relating to St. Francis of Assisi,” but the son, the father and the memoir were all invented by Montgomery ...
The FBI issued an alert in March 2023 saying it had received over 600 complaints with losses of $39.6 million from ... 7 million of the $18 million stolen as restitution for victims of the scam.
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, The Good House holds an approval rating of 73% based on 78 reviews with an average of 6.1/10. The website's critics consensus reads: "The Good House creaks in spots, but with Kevin Kline and Sigourney Weaver providing load-bearing performances, it's far from a fixer-upper."
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Nationwide, in 2021, 11,578 people reported losing roughly $350 million due to these types of scams — a 64% jump from the previous year, according to the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center.