Carnival of Fraud Eight
Welcome to this week’s Carnival of Fraud. As always, we’re showcasing blog posts that discuss issues related to frauds, scams, and other shady dealings. If you’d like your post included in a future Carnival of Fraud, you can make your submission here.
- Your Credit Advisor offers tips to help prevent identity theft. This is a really great post with a ton of useful information! (But if you do get stung by identity thieves, read this article I wrote about recovering from identity theft.)
- I am reading and writing about the book Merchants of Deception, an expose’ on the Amway organization and the ongoing fraud perpetrated from within.
- Robert FitzPatrick has been educated on the little-known fraud and deception behind multi-level marketing (MLM) companies.
- Radical Hop points out the mediocrity that is often tolerated from “consultants”.
- Russ Fox discusses how a guy in an Ohio state prison managed to defraud the Internal Revenue Service out of $5,277 before they caught on.
See you next week!
