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If an investment opportunity sounds too good to be true, proceed with caution. In many cases, it probably isn’t true — and that’s bad news for anyone who puts their financial hopes and ...
All investments carry some degree of risk, but there's a distinct line between a risky investment and a downright scam. Unfortunately, scams are prevalent. According to data from the Federal Trade...
It's a dangerous time to be a real estate investor scouting out parcels of land. The United States Secret Service Cybercrime Investigations division "has observed a sharp increase in reports of ...
Swampland in Florida is a figure of speech referring to real estate scams in which a seller misrepresents unusable swampland as developable property. These types of unseen property scams became widely known in the United States in the 20th century, and the phrase is often used metaphorically for any scam that misrepresents what is being sold.
Non-scientific health care (e.g., acupuncture, ayurvedic medicine, chiropractic, homeopathy, naturopathy) is licensed by individual states. Practitioners use unscientific practices and deception on a public who, lacking complex health-care knowledge, must rely upon the trustworthiness of providers.
Affinity fraud is a form of investment fraud in which the fraudster preys upon members of identifiable groups, such as religious or ethnic communities, language minorities, the elderly, or professional groups. The fraudsters who promote affinity scams frequently are – or successfully pretend to be – members of the group.
A recovery room scam is a form of advance-fee fraud where the scammer (sometimes posing as a law enforcement officer or attorney) calls investors who have been sold worthless shares (for example in a boiler-room scam), and offers to buy them, to allow the investors to recover their investments. [92]
Opinion: Learn the red flags of AI scams so you can avoid losing your money, personal information, and potentially your livelihoods.