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FIB - Scams 101 - Ye Olde Archives
Posted By: MaaMaw
Tuesday, 14 December 2004, at 9:58 p.m.
Hi Kim,
Again, obviously not every company that uses wire transfers or private couriers to exchange money is operating a scam, but biz-op scams have become an international epidemic. It is completely out of control at this point.
They have been around forever (I remember ads in the T.V. Guide when I was a teenager) -- but with the internet, they are running rampant like never before.
These people try to stay one step ahead of the law. Sometimes the law catches up with them. In rare (and glorious) cases, they do jail time -- but more often, they just reopen under a new name, in a new state (Utah, Florida, Nevada, and Texas are favorites) -- or offshore (increasingly popular).
Almost always, it's the "Feds" that shut them down.
The reason they use wire transfers and private couriers is because if and when they are caught, they won't face charges of postal fraud on top of everything else -- and if they aren't charged with a *federal* crime, they aren't going to do time in *federal* prison.
It's like deciding, when you go to rob the local 7-11, whether or not to carry a gun. It depends on how gruesome you want the consequences to be.
I'm rambling because Katie is ready to have her hair untangled and I have to get off now -- but if you go back to my original message and click on a few of the links, they will explain it much better and more coherently than I am. Every one of them discusses it in detail, and at least a couple are government sites.
Please believe me when I tell you this is *not* "negativity" and it is *not* sour grapes from a bitter old brownie-baker who lost her shirt (and her sweater) (and her sox) (and her last pair of drawers).
It is very, very real, and there are *countless* carcasses to prove it -- people who have lost their life savings, their marriages, their reputations, and sometimes their *lives* (when everything is gone, more than a few have been driven to suicide).
That's why it is SO important to me to make people aware of the red flags -- and these are two biggies.
Luv,
MaaMaw
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