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- TYPES OF SCAM:
- Mail scam
- Phone scam
- Online scam
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- When you receive a business opportunity in the mail. It shows you how to
make extra income ,with extra investment.
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- Telemarketer will call when you are having diner and they try to sell
you something or they try to present you a fundraising campaign.
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- It is the number one source of today’s scam. The top ten “dot cons” are:
internet auctions, internet service access, credit card fraud,
international modem dialing, web cramming, multilevel marketing
plans/pyramids, travel and vacation, business opportunities, investment,
health care products /services.
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- Use Google to learn about the companies that seem suspicious to you.
www.google.com
- Go to the FTC (the Federal Trade Commission) website www.ftc.gov
- Visit Better Business Bureau website. It will show you which companies
to avoid.www.bbb.org
- Read Whitlock, Charles R.
book. Mediscams: how to spot and avoid health care scams, medical
frauds, and quackery from the local physician to the major health care
providers and drug manufacturer
- Most of all try to use you common sense
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- Go online share your experience in a newsgroup.
- Fill in a complaint form with the FTC
- Request for a refund if possible
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- Choosing the topic wasn’t easy. Then I thought about a subject I always
wanted to write about because I was mad if about it. It hit me in the
face: scams and how to use the internet to avoid them.
- I search in the King Library catalog, but it was almost impossible to
find current books about the subject. Finally, I got some government
database document. They were at least 10 years old, but they help me
significantly in writing my paper.
- I went online ,I used Google, yahoo directories, Some other site to
evaluate my findings: www.ftc.gov , www.bbb.org ,and www.ecommercetimes.com .
- I learnt more tips doing my research.
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Notes