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85How Ponzi Schemes are disguised: through secrecy, fake product, and consistently high returns
How do Ponzi schemes even now manage to lure in people despite its invention almost 100 years ago? Learn the three disguises of a Ponzi scheme and avoid being a victim of one.
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83False Advertising Regulation
False advertising is out of control and needs to be regulated through truthful advertising laws. False advertising has been increasing in frequency since 1998, and needs to be stopped, or at the very least slowed down. Many companies love to use...
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81Kevin Trudeau Fraud or Consumer Advocate?
Kevin Trudeau is well known amongst television and news headlines. You may have even seen him by scanning the channels looking for something to watch. He's often part of infomercials late at night promoting his latest books. Some of these ads...
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80How Social Media Influences Teen Alcohol Use
How does social media in the digital age influence teen alcohol use? Do the rules for advertising on television and in magazines apply to social media advertisement? What is the impact of under age alcohol use on society and what role do the social media, alcohol industry, parents, government and the public have in regulating social media influence on young people?
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76How to save money when buying a car
Buying a new car is exciting if you have the money to afford one. The auto industry sells 15 to 17 million new cars per year. So how can you save money when you are buying a car? The best advice is to hang onto your old one until it is absolutely...
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7510 Reasons to Know How Identity Theft Impacts Businesses
10 Reasons to Know How Identity Impacts Businesses In doing my research I found that identity theft has a huge impact on businesses and business owners aren’t of it, particularly small business owners,...
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74The Facebook FTC Privacy Settlement: What we need to know
A detailed look at the 2011 FTC settlement with Facebook with a look at the 8 counts of privacy violations.
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73Breaching Our Freedom of Press or Reinvention of Journalism? You Decide
Journalism has evolved over the last fifty years due to innovation and technology and the journalist’s need to inform people and their inherent desire to “get the scoop.” From the invention of the printing press in 1456, to the publishing of...
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74prevent identity theft
Identity Fraud and Identity Theft Identity theft is definitely not a victimless crime. In 2007, CIFAS the UK fraud prevention service identified and protected over 65,000 victims of identity theft. The FTC...
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72The Roles of Legislation and Litigation in taking on Big Tobacco
The tobacco industry is a very influential and unique business, one of the most important and widely criticized in America today. No other industry quite captures the polarized interests that tobacco does, carrying vehement support of some groups...
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