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FTC's Top Consumer Complaints in 2008

Posted on March 02, 2009

Mannatech Company, Founder, Settle False Marketing Claims

Posted on March 01, 2009

Stanford Ponzi CIO Arrested

Posted on March 01, 2009

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Posted on March 01, 2009

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Can Kindle Replace Text Books?

Posted on February 28, 2009

Minkow on Pre-Paid Legal - Is he right?

Posted on February 28, 2009

Daren L. Palmer and Trigon Group Ponzi scheme

Posted on February 27, 2009

The Perfect Balanced Sample

Posted on February 27, 2009

The Short Con - Paying a $1.00 for 75 cents.

Posted on February 27, 2009

NCL says all Direct Sales are Pyramids

Posted on February 27, 2009

Will Franchisees Pay for Competent Pre Investment Advice?

Posted on February 26, 2009
Image by Getty Images via DaylifeOne of the ongoing debates, a head scratching problem, is why prospective franchisees don't pay for and act upon the advice given by skilled or specialized franchise attorneys.Richard Solomon, writing at Blue Mau Mau, argues:"Franchise investors still don't avail themselves of competent pre investment due diligece resources...

The Myth of Franchise Protection

Posted on February 26, 2009
Image via WikipediaThis talk by Professor Omri Ben-Shahar is about the three myths fo Consumer Protection, but at least two of these myths are relevant to Franchisee Protection.Professor Omri Ben-Shahar spoke on the "Myths of Consumer Protection" at this year's annual Ronald H...

Skepticism about Neuroscience

Posted on February 26, 2009
Image via WikipediaThe Law and Magic blog points out a paper skeptical about the explanatory power of neuroscience."According to a wide variety of scholars, scientists, and policymakers, neuroscience promises to transform law. Many neurolegalists - those championing the power of neuroscience for law - proceed from problematic premises regarding the relationship of mind to brain...

Fraud Bounties or Fraud Blogs?

Posted on February 26, 2009

Castaldi's Assets, where are they?

Posted on February 26, 2009

Has Porn Jumped the Shark?

Posted on February 26, 2009

Reed Gold Ponzi Scheme

Posted on February 25, 2009
Image via WikipediaFrom the FBI Press release, on the Reed Gold Ponzi scheme:In March 2001 REED founded OSGold, which held itself out as an on-line "bank" that could provide its customers withInternet banking services purportedly backed in part by gold bullion reserves stored in an off-shore vault...

WG Trading Investors Investment Fraud

Posted on February 25, 2009
Image via WikipediaFrom the SEC Press Release regarding the WG Trading fraud:The Securities and Exchange Commission today took emergency action and obtained an asset freeze against two New York residents and their three affiliated entities, who orchestrated a brazen investment fraud involving the misappropriation of as much as $554 million in investor assets...

Westgate Capital Management Mini Madoff

Posted on February 25, 2009
Image via Wikipediahttp://www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases/2009/lr20911.htmThe Securities and Exchange Commission today charged a Pearl River, N.Y., investment management firm and its principal for operating a large-scale scheme that defrauded hundreds of investors of millions of dollars by providing them with misleading marketing materials that significantly overstated investment returns and by misrepresenting the value of the assets under management...

Forty Years Ago Today, The Band Began to Play

Posted on February 24, 2009
Cover via AmazonAlmost forty years ago, George Soros wrote a memo about mortgage trusts, reprinted on pages 61-63 of his book the Alchemy of Finance.  You should get a copy of it and read the entire 3 pages, do your own calculations to demonstrate his point...

Can Tim Horton's Conquer the US?

Posted on February 24, 2009
Image via WikipediaLast year at this time, Tim Horton's looked to expand southwards. "Fourth-quarter profit at Tim Hortons rose 11.5 percent, the coffee and doughnut chain said on Wednesday, as new locations and higher prices more than offset rising costs...

Franchising - It is All About the Money

Posted on February 24, 2009
Big Dan T explains the modern theory behind franchising: it is all about the money. Thanks to Sean Kelly from Franchise Pick for this video.

A Victim of the Cruelest Man

Posted on February 23, 2009
Image via WikipediaA reader writes, about the Castaldi Ponzi scheme,"I HAVE CONTACTED EVERY NEWS STATION THEIR IS I WANT HIM AND HIS FAMILY EXPOSED FOR WHAT HE HAS DONE TO ALL THE PEOPLE I KNOW AND FOR MY FAMILY TOO, HE TOOK FROM EVERYONE OF US. THIS IS WHAT I SENT TO THE NEWS STATION AND I HAVE COMMENTED ON EVERY  PLACE THAT HAS A WEB SITE...

To Terminate or Not to Terminate

Posted on February 23, 2009
Image via WikipediaIn Ontario, the equivalent of the FTC Rule, the Arthur Wishart (Franchise Disclosure) Act, created a private cause of action. The enforcement of the Franchise Disclosure Act is done by means of a civil suit. If a franchisee doesn't get a disclosure document, they may elect to rescind the contract, before 2 years, and the franchisor has 60 days to repay the franchise fee, repurchase inventory and supplies at the cost sold to the franchisee, and also make good any losses...

Why You Don't Get Rich Quick

Posted on February 22, 2009
Image via WikipediaSeth Godin makes a mistake.  He identifies business opportunites as things like: "raising ostriches, or timing the market or investing in tulips--there's a long history here." Ideas that appear absurd on their face.But he follows this mistake up, with a very good insight about why people buy business opportunities, when the underlying business has little or no value...

Alan Kippax on BIM

Posted on February 22, 2009
Mr. Kippax, the marketing genius behind the Treasure Trader pyramid scheme, has some unkind words for CBC's Marketplace show on his latest scheme, Business in Motion. Mr. Kippax's odd diatribe should give the lie to the claim that con criminals are charming because no one can feel any other than disgust and distaste listening to this bully rant and rave...

Do You Understand the Credit Crisis?

Posted on February 22, 2009
The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo. I don't, but Jarvis thinks he does. What do you think?Related articles by ZemantaThe Crisis of Credit Visualized (marketing.fm)The Credit Crisis video (yihongs-research.blogspot.com)Crisis of Credit (urbanplanningblog...

Taylor Bond growing the Children's Orchard Franchise?

Posted on February 22, 2009
Image via WikipediaThe best thing about the internet is that the past is much more nearer than before. Look at this statement from the CEO of Children's Orchard and his expectations of growth in franchise units."Since assuming his position with Children's Orchard in January 2004, Bond, whose previous experiences in franchising include high-level positions at Domino's Pizza and Computer Renaissance, is bringing renewed growth to Children's Orchard...

Unified Wealth Solutions and the FTC

Posted on February 21, 2009
/* My favourite types of graphs: the pursued versus the regulator.

Billion Coupons Ponzi

Posted on February 21, 2009
From SEC Press Release on the Cooper Ponzi Scheme.On February 18, 2009, the Securities and Exchange Commission obtained a court order halting an alleged $4 million Ponzi scheme perpetrated by Hawaii-based Billion Coupons, Inc. ("BCI") and its CEO Marvin R...

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