Real estate and identity theft cons snare more victims, state falls for $2.5m trick
Real estate and identify theft scams provide the main focus for our new round-up of the scam headlines.
We have the latest figures on the scale of ID theft in the US and news of a sneaky trick using parking tickets to try to steal people's personal details. Phony jobs are also back on the scene, again as a route to getting hold of private information.
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Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Jobless Organize to Remove Republican Royalists From Their Jobs
Alternet/ leogerard
Glenn Beck made it official on Fox News last week: He’s seeking the office of 21st Century Marie Antoinette.
The queen of France, beheaded during the revolution, attained infamy for insensitivity toward hungry peasants. Glenn Beck, the Fox talk show host, achieved celebrity for his callousness toward unemployed Americans.
Beck leads a pack of royalist Republicans who have spent the summer mocking, vilifying and denigrating the nation’s 14.5 million unemployed workers. It is the moneyed class smacking down the working class in an attempt to disempower and disenfranchise them. Dispirited workers are less likely to vote – which could give Beck and his gang of royalist Republicans control of Congress.
The unemployed, like France’s 18th Century peasants, are fighting back, however. The Union of the Unemployed and Working America are organizing the jobless to vote this fall and to demand help from lawmakers. They’re not out to behead Beck and the royalist Republicans, just dethrone them.
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Alternet/ leogerard
Glenn Beck made it official on Fox News last week: He’s seeking the office of 21st Century Marie Antoinette.
The queen of France, beheaded during the revolution, attained infamy for insensitivity toward hungry peasants. Glenn Beck, the Fox talk show host, achieved celebrity for his callousness toward unemployed Americans.
Beck leads a pack of royalist Republicans who have spent the summer mocking, vilifying and denigrating the nation’s 14.5 million unemployed workers. It is the moneyed class smacking down the working class in an attempt to disempower and disenfranchise them. Dispirited workers are less likely to vote – which could give Beck and his gang of royalist Republicans control of Congress.
The unemployed, like France’s 18th Century peasants, are fighting back, however. The Union of the Unemployed and Working America are organizing the jobless to vote this fall and to demand help from lawmakers. They’re not out to behead Beck and the royalist Republicans, just dethrone them.
Click here to read the full article.
Alternet/ leogerard
We are Experiencing a 1930s Style Depression
Alternet/ by grantlawrence
I hate to say I told you so, but I told you so. I will keep telling you so in hopes it sinks in with somebody. Over the last couple of years we have been through ‘green shoots’ and a supposedly slow recovery. Well as I said often, there wasn’t any green shoots and their was never a recovery. Unless you want to call bail outs for bankers and corporations a recovery.
So the news out now is the housing market just dropped 27% in July. It probably dropped more. We know, or should know, we can’t trust government numbers.
Now many economists are beginning to rethink their double dip recessions and call the economic disaster what it is–a Depression.
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Alternet/ by grantlawrence
I hate to say I told you so, but I told you so. I will keep telling you so in hopes it sinks in with somebody. Over the last couple of years we have been through ‘green shoots’ and a supposedly slow recovery. Well as I said often, there wasn’t any green shoots and their was never a recovery. Unless you want to call bail outs for bankers and corporations a recovery.
So the news out now is the housing market just dropped 27% in July. It probably dropped more. We know, or should know, we can’t trust government numbers.
Now many economists are beginning to rethink their double dip recessions and call the economic disaster what it is–a Depression.
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Alternet/ by grantlawrence
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Sunday, August 15, 2010
15 Steps You Can Take To Prevent Home Burglary
Every 15 seconds in the US, a home burglary takes place, but there are so many things we can do to dramatically reduce the chances of falling victim.
Criminologist Elicka S.L. Peterson-Sparks explains what she did when she encountered a burglar at a neighbor's home.
Based on her research and experience, she also provides her best tips to prevent home burglary.
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Criminologist Elicka S.L. Peterson-Sparks explains what she did when she encountered a burglar at a neighbor's home.
Based on her research and experience, she also provides her best tips to prevent home burglary.
Click Here to read the full article.
©Copyright Audri and Jim Lanford. All rights reserved.
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Friday, August 6, 2010
Have You Become an Unwitting Email Spam Accomplice?
There's no end to scammers' ingenuity when it comes to harvesting addresses for their email spaham (misspelled intentionally). Like: roping you in to help them.
You may not realize that when you forward messages, use someone else's PC or click on a malware link, you could be handing over valuable email addresses to spammers.
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You may not realize that when you forward messages, use someone else's PC or click on a malware link, you could be handing over valuable email addresses to spammers.
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Scamming of Vet Families
Investigate Insurance Companies Scamming Vet Families
It has come to light that private insurers (notably Prudential and Metlife) have been holding on to payments earmarked for the families of deceased service members and collecting interest on their money. In turn they have paid the families a fraction of that interest. We are asking Congress to hold hearings to examine why this is happening and how we can stop it from happening in the future.
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VoteVets.org
The Voice of America's 21st Century Patriots
It has come to light that private insurers (notably Prudential and Metlife) have been holding on to payments earmarked for the families of deceased service members and collecting interest on their money. In turn they have paid the families a fraction of that interest. We are asking Congress to hold hearings to examine why this is happening and how we can stop it from happening in the future.
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VoteVets.org
The Voice of America's 21st Century Patriots
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Food Industry Scams -- Acne-Curing Chocolate?
Alternet/ Anneli Rufus
The food industry sees huge dollar signs in erasing the border between medicine and meals. Cinnamon is no longer just the spunky spice on cinnamon toast. Turmeric is no longer just the bitter yellow dust that colors curry.
These days, both are hailed as superpowered disease-fighting "nutraceuticals" — part nutrient, part pharmaceutical. Along with many other once-humble substances (think pomegranates, fish oil and flax seeds), they're key ingredients in "functional foods," which comprise a booming $30-billion-a-year industry bent on erasing the border between medicine and meals.
When is candy not candy? When are potato chips not potato chips? When are crisp salty discs and dark-chocolate balls not mere hedonistic treats? When they're functional foods, in this case Corazonas chips and foil-wrapped Frutels — bought in hopes of lowering cholesterol and curing acne.
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Alternet/ Anneli Rufus
The food industry sees huge dollar signs in erasing the border between medicine and meals. Cinnamon is no longer just the spunky spice on cinnamon toast. Turmeric is no longer just the bitter yellow dust that colors curry.
These days, both are hailed as superpowered disease-fighting "nutraceuticals" — part nutrient, part pharmaceutical. Along with many other once-humble substances (think pomegranates, fish oil and flax seeds), they're key ingredients in "functional foods," which comprise a booming $30-billion-a-year industry bent on erasing the border between medicine and meals.
When is candy not candy? When are potato chips not potato chips? When are crisp salty discs and dark-chocolate balls not mere hedonistic treats? When they're functional foods, in this case Corazonas chips and foil-wrapped Frutels — bought in hopes of lowering cholesterol and curing acne.
Click here to read the full article.
Alternet/ Anneli Rufus
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