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  1. The Big Sell
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1963
  2. Don't Be Scammed Into Removing Links
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    There may be a new competitive sabotage scam going around the SEO industry around link removals: emails advising webmasters to ask other sites to remove good and legitimate links to their websites.
  3. Email scam which targets professional speakers
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    An email scam targetting professional speakers is making the rounds. The NSA, a British speakers' association reports that the scam has been aimed at its members. Speakers listed with SOURCES - www.sources.com - have also reported being targetted.
  4. Extrasensory Deception
    Resource Type: Book
  5. Link Removal Services & Notices -- The Newest Internet Scam?
    Resource Type: Unclassified
    Published: 2013
    Forum discussion on link removal notices as a new form of scam.
  6. Pakistani Company Accused of Running Fake Degree Scam Has a History of Silencing Critics
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    On immoral companies and small voices. A Pakistani company has been silencing accusations of illegality through the intimidation of big law suits.
  7. 'Can you hear me?': New phone scam tricks you into answering 'yes'
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    Describes a new telephone scam being run in North America, wherein a recording of one's voice saying the word 'yes' is used to defraud victims.
  8. Profit by Fiat
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    The current bond rigging scandal, in which banks colluded to rig bids on municipal bonds, was a scam that the banks learned from the mafia, who in turn learned it from the Rockfellers and tehri partners in crime.
  9. The Right-to-Farm Scam
    Third Wave Corporatocracy

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    When Monsanto’s home state of Missouri passed the “Right to Farm” on August 5, 2014 the third noose of corporate control tightened around the neck of the US. Unlike the first two steps of corporate domination of public life, this was a constitutional amendment that would block the state legislature or voters from passing future laws for environmental protection, animal welfare or labeling of contaminated food. This third wave corporatocracy could well spread across US and globally as it becomes a new form of mass disenfranchisement.
  10. Secret trackers and hidden cameras expose how some movers could be ripping you off
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2022
    A group of moving companies is offering low quotes and then increasing the total cost of moves by thousands of dollars -- in some cases grossly over-estimating the weight of goods to be moved, a CBC Marketplace investigation has found. Questionable moving practices are on the rise, industry experts say.
  11. Tea Party's fake protestors for Big Sugar against Florida Everglades
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    The Tea Party of Miami put up a convincing demo last week to oppose a 'land grab' that would see 46,000 acres of sugar farm land restored for Everglades conservation. Just one problem - the 'protestors' were actors each being paid $75 for the two-hour shift.
  12. Toronto Company Receives Record $15 Million Fine
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    The Competition Bureau announced today that the Ontario Superior Court has imposed a record $15 million fine against DataCom Marketing Inc. for operating a business directory scam targeting Canadian and U.S. businesses.
  13. 'Upstanding Citizens' Escape Justice in Tory 'In-and-Out' Scandal
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    The "In-and-Out" Scandal: Case should have proceeded against 'Upstanding citizens'.
    This is a story about illegal activities, deceit and lying involving an overzealous group of Canadians who seemed prepared to do just about anything to accomplish their mission – win a federal election.
  14. Web of Deception
    Misinformation on the Internet

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2002
  15. Won't Get Fooled Again
    Resource Type: Article
    Bank fraud is a bigger problem than I had ever realised. Experts suggest one in four of us will be directly affected by bank fraud at one point or another, while millions and millions of pounds is pumped into funding departments such as the ones that sorted out my problem and insurance it took to cover the money stolen. That’s our money, paid in extortionate overdraft arrangement fees in order to finance the whole industry.


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