{"id":1091,"date":"2007-11-09T11:29:48","date_gmt":"2007-11-09T16:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sequence-inc.com\/fraudfiles\/2007\/11\/09\/consumerist-where-have-you-been-all-my-life\/"},"modified":"2012-06-02T08:23:44","modified_gmt":"2012-06-02T13:23:44","slug":"consumerist-where-have-you-been-all-my-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/consumerist-where-have-you-been-all-my-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Consumerist, Where Have You Been All My Life?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know if I was living under a rock or what, but I first discovered <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/\">Consumerist<\/a> a couple of months ago. I know, I know&#8230; I investigate fraud for a living and you&#8217;d think that I&#8217;d be on the lookout for sites that help consumers avoid scams. I am &#8211; sort of. You see, the focus of my company is not on consumer issues, but business fraud.<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;ve taken an interest in these consumer scams and schemes&#8230; plenty of them perpetrated by good old American companies. You know, the ones that you&#8217;d think would value our patronage and treat us right? Consumerist does a great job of publicizing situations in which customers get the shaft from big business.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>And this whole thing is about to come full-circle. Next month, I will become part of a new site, sponsored by a company with a HUGE online presence. We&#8217;ll be putting together a consumer finance blog, with several writers covering different aspects.<\/p>\n<p>My focus, of course, will be fraud and scams against consumers. And this is going to be fun. I&#8217;m going to be blogging about current fraud issues facing consumers, ways to protect themselves, and real life consumer rip-offs. I&#8217;m going to be collecting stories from readers who&#8217;ve been cheated or scammed and we&#8217;ll be giving the companies who perpetrate the fraud and other bad acts a nice bit of publicity.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned for more details, as we get ready to launch the site in a few weeks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know if I was living under a rock or what, but I first discovered Consumerist a couple of months ago. I know, I know&#8230; I investigate fraud for a living and you&#8217;d think that I&#8217;d be on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fraud-news-stories"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Z0e-hB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}