BAD DEAL: VOTING RIGHTS FRAUD

This is an excerpt from the Department of Justice Fact Sheet on Protecting Voting Rights and Preventing Election Fraud.
The Department of Justice is in charge of enforcing and protecting voting rights. In October 2002, the Ballot Access and Voting Integrity Initiative was established to spearhead the Department’s expanded efforts to address election crimes and voting [...]

A Bad Deal For Women

BusinessWeek
Wall Street chiefs supposedly earn big bucks because they can rack up big numbers. But they deliver some pathetically small ones, too. Like zero. That’s the number of women on the management committees of Bear Stearns Cos. (BSC ) and Lehman Brothers (LEH ) Inc. Or one, which is how many women have made it to the [...]

How To Spot a Bad Music Deal

 

From Heather McDonald,
There are a lot of people in the music business who want to help you reach your music goals - even people who make sacrifices themselves to work in music just because they love it. Unfortunately, to find these people, you have to navigate a minefield of people who see your dreams as their [...]

Dodge’s New Fuel Price Protection Program Is A Scam

Posted by admin (Jason)
In an effort to boost sales, Dodge has announced a special “Fuel Price Protection” program for their trucks. Simply put, you get a special credit card when you buy a new Dodge (not every new Dodge, but most). You can use this credit card to buy fuel for $2.99 a gallon at any service station [...]

Men being men is a bad deal

 
By Robert Jensen
It’s hard to be a man; hard to live up to the demands that come with the dominant conception of masculinity, of the tough guy.
So, guys, I have an idea — maybe it’s time we stop trying. Maybe this masculinity thing is a bad deal, not just for women, but for us.
We need [...]

The Top 10 Internet/Email Scams of 2008

From Paul Gil, 
1) The Nigerian scam, also known as 419
February, 2008: special thanks to guest author and networking technician, Joanna Gil, for contributing to this article.    
Most of you have received an email from a member of a Nigerian family with wealth. It is a desperate cry for help in getting a very large sum of money out [...]

PHISHING RELATED TO ISSUANCE OF ECONOMIC STIMULUS CHECKS

05/08/08—The FBI warns consumers of recently reported spam e-mail purportedly from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) which is actually an attempt to steal consumer information. The e-mail advises the recipient that direct deposit is the fastest and easiest way to receive their economic stimulus tax rebate. The message contains a hyperlink to a fraudulent form [...]

Top Ten Scams of 2007

 
By Mark Huffman
ConsumerAffairs.com
A stroll through the Scam Alerts archives finds it’s been Christmastime all year for the world’s scam artists. The Federal Trade Commission tells us that scams hit 30.2 million adults — 13.5 percent of the adult population during the last year for which it has added up its complaints.
While the FTC’s latest figures [...]

USPTO LAUNCHES MEDIA CAMPAIGN TO COUNTER PATENT SCAMS

This week, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) unveils a television and radio campaign in five media markets to counter the flood of deceptive advertising aimed at America’s independent inventors. USPTO’s spots, which will run through March 31, 2002, in San Francisco/San Jose, Tampa, Pittsburgh and New York, and in Spanish in Southern [...]