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  • Paul Wesley, Jeri Ryan, Scott Bakula, Wwe® Superstar Edge® Headline Toronto Comic Con, April 14-15
    By: Jerry Milani, Wizard World | - A state-of-the-art downtown venue, new dates and fresh celebrity guests mark the third Wizard World Toronto Comic Con, which today announced its standout lineup scheduled to attend the event, April 14-15 at Metro Toronto Convention Centre (MTCC). Popular screen stars Paul Wesley, Jeri Ryan, Scott Bakula and Amy Acker will be joined by WWE Superstar Edge and dozens of standout celebs and talented comic book artists and writers at the convention, which promises to be even bigger and better in ...
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  • Eight Eisner Winners & Nominees, Including Hall Of Famer Stan Lee, To Attend New Orleans Comic Con
    By: Jerry Milani, Wizard World | - A total of eight Will Eisner Comics Industry Awards winners and nominees, including Hall of Famer Stan Lee, are among the more than 170 comic creators scheduled to attend Wizard World New Orleans Comic Con, January 28-29 at Ernest N. Morial Convention Center. Lee, who co-created Spider-Man, the Hulk, the X-Men, the Fantastic Four, Iron Man, Thor, and dozens of other classic and world-famous characters, will be joined by Eisner winners George Prez (Superman, JSA), Rob Guillory ( ...
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  • Shatner, Lee Meet-and-greets, Marsters Q&a, Parties Highlight New Orleans Comic Con Programming
    By: Jerry Milani, Wizard World | - Rare meet-and-greets and Q&A sessions with legends William Shatner and Stan Lee, panels with movie and TV stars James Marsters, Mary McDonnell and Adam Baldwin, and several themed parties headline a broad, diverse schedule of special programming at the 2012 Wizard World New Orleans Comic Con, January 28-29 at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center. Unique Jedi lightsaber classes, sessions with stars of classic favorites, a screening of the new film THE VICTIM and artist schools to costume conte ...
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  • D.gary-man Cosplay Series-terrific Cosplay Costumes For You
    By: xuxu | - You can record life and visual charming to your cosplay with the cosplay costumes. At present, numerous varieties potpourris of D.Gray-Man Cosplay costumes are designed and published in the market. Therefore, enthusiasts can pick costumes to do their dreamy fantasy D.Gary-Man character in an arch manner with the assistance of affordable costumes. Further, this kind of cosplay costumes in D.Gray-Man anime are now provided in local markets. And fans can get the best desired one for a comic con in ...
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  • Pow!"€™s Comic Book Legend Stan Lee To Attend 2012 Wizard World New Orleans Comic Con
    By: Jerry Milani, Wizard World | - Stan Lee, the legendary comic book writer, editor, actor, producer, publisher, and current Chairman and Chief Creative Officer of POW! Entertainment, today announced that he will make a special appearance at Wizard World New Orleans Comic Con, January 28-29, 2012, at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center. Lee, a member of both the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame and the Jack Kirby Hall of Fame, will be on site on Saturday, Jan. 28 to meet fans, sign autographs and pose for photographs. Sp ...
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  • Big Easy Beam: William Shatner To Attend 2012 Wizard World New Orleans Comic Con
    By: Jerry Milani, Wizard World | - William Shatner, who has starred in popular television series and movies for more than five decades, will attend 2012 Wizard World New Orleans Comic Con, it was announced today. Shatner, whose most well-known credits include lead roles in Star Trek, T.J. Hooker and Boston Legal, will appear on Saturday, January 28, at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center.

    Instantly recognizable to several generations of cult TV fans as the square-jawed Capt. James T. Kirk, comma ...

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  • Baldwin, Mcdonnell, Marsters, Biehn Atop 2012 Wizard World New Orleans Comic Con Lineup
    By: Jerry Milani, Wizard World | - North Americas largest pop-culture tour opens the 2012 season as Wizard World New Orleans Comic Con, a huge success in its inaugural event last year, returns to the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, January 28-29, 2012, with standout guests Adam Baldwin, Mary McDonnell, James Marsters, Michael Biehn, WWE Diva Kelly Kelly and WWE Superstar Zack Ryder headlining the list of celebrity attendees. The event, produced by Wizard World, Inc. (WIZD.PK) will bring together thousands of fan ...
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  • House Removals In Edinburgh - With A Man With A Van Edinburgh
    By: James Edinburgh | - House removals with a man with a van Edinburgh has taken off due to the recession every one and his van try's it, just rent the man who has use of van to move your possessions in Edinburgh and you could be taking chance using a cowboy mover Best with the real Man and a van in Edinburgh and make sure they are from Edinburgh and not some far flung out of town location !

    Hiring an Edinburgh man and van usually means you get a van which may be equipped with all of the furniture blank ...

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  • Baird, Benson, Biehn, Huffman, Sorbo Added To Wizard World Austin Comic Con Lineup For Nov. 11-13
    By: Jerry Milani, Wizard World | - Five popular celebrity guests have been added to the stellar Wizard World Austin Comic Con lineup as Diora Baird, Julia Benson, Michael Biehn, Alaina Huffman and Kevin Sorbo have committed to the event, set for the Austin Convention Center, November 11-13. The five join standouts Hayden Panettiere, Adam Baldwin, ACADEMY AWARD WINNER Louis Gossett Jr., James Marsters, Juliet Landau, Charisma Carpenter and others at the next stop on North Americas largest pop-culture tour.

    Baird ( ...

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  • Panettiere, Baldwin, Gossett, Marsters Headline Wizard World Austin Comic Con, Nov. 11-13
    By: Jerry Milani, Wizard World | - North America"s largest pop-culture tour continues as Wizard World Austin Comic Con returns to the Austin Convention Center, November 11-13, with standout guests Hayden Panettiere, Adam Baldwin, ACADEMY AWARD WINNER Louis Gossett Jr., James Marsters, Juliet Landau and Charisma Carpenter headlining the list of celebrity attendees. The event, produced by Wizard World, Inc. (WIZD.PK) will bring together thousands of fans of all ages and dozens of celebrities and industry professionals to cel ...
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  • Twelve Eisner Award Winners And Nominees To Attend Wizard World Mid-ohio Comic Con, Oct. 22-23
    By: Jerry Milani, Wizard World | - A total of 12 Will Eisner Comics Industry Awards winners and nominees are among the more than 150 comic creators scheduled to attend Wizard World Mid-Ohio Comic Con, part of North Americas largest pop-culture tour, October 22-23 at the Greater Columbus Convention Center. Winners include 10-time honoree Jeff Smith ("Bone," "RASL"), Bill Sienkiewicz ("Elektra," "Assassin"), Christopher Sprouse ("Tom Strong," "The Return of Bruce Wayne") and Eric Wight ("The Escapist," "Action Comics").
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  • Marsters, Williams, West Among Wizard World Mid-ohio Comic Con Headliners, Oct. 22-23 In Columbus
    By: Jerry Milani, Wizard World | - North Americas largest pop-culture tour continues at Wizard World (WIZD.PK) Mid-Ohio Comic Con at the Greater Columbus Convention Center, October 22-23, with standout guests James Marsters, Billy Dee Williams, Adam West, Burt Ward, Claudia Christian and Walter Koenig headlining the list of celebrity attendees. The event will bring together thousands of fans of all ages and dozens of celebrities and industry professionals to celebrate the best in pop-fi, pop culture, movies, graphic novels, c ...
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  • Thirty-four Eisner Award Winners And Nominees To Attend Wizard World Chicago Comic Con
    By: Jerry Milani, Wizard World | - A total of 34 Will Eisner Comics Industry Awards winners (19) and nominees (15) are among the more than 400 comic creators scheduled to attend Wizard World Chicago Comic Con, part of North Americas largest pop-culture tour, August 11-14 at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center. Headliners among the winners include Brian Azzarello (Flashpoint, Batman Knight of Vengeance), Gary Friedrich (Ghost Rider, Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos), Dave Johnson (Deadpo ...
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  • Stewart, Campbell, Lloyd, Baccarin Headline Wizard World Chicago Comic Con Aug. 11-14
    By: Jerry Milani, Wizard World | - North Americas largest pop-culture tour continues as Wizard World Chicago Comic Con returns to the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center, August 11-14, with superstar guests Patrick Stewart, Bruce Campbell, Christopher Lloyd, Morena Baccarin, Felicia Day, Academy Award Winner Lou Gossett Jr. and James Marsters headlining the list of celebrity attendees. The event will bring together thousands of fans of all ages and dozens of celebrities and industry professionals to celebrate the best in p ...
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  • Thirteen Eisner Award Winner And Nominees To Attend Wizard World Philadelphia Comic Con
    By: Jerry Milani, Wizard World | - Thirteen Will Eisner Comics Industry Awards winners or nominees are among the more than 200 comic creators already scheduled to attend Wizard World Philadelphia Comic Con, part of North Americas largest pop-culture tour, June 17-19 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center.

    The winners include Franco Aureliani ("Billy Batson And The Magic Of Shazam!," "Tiny Titans"); Todd Klein ("Green Lantern," "New Talent Showcase"); Kevin Maguire (Justice League, Batman Confidential, ...

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  • Is It Possible To Trace Nigerian Email Scams?
    By: Ed Opperman | - The Nigerian email scams have been going on for decades. In fact even before the Internet and emailing becalmed commonplace these Nigerian. Today they are perpetrated almost entirely over the Internet via email. If you are not familiar the scam goes like this.

    You'll be contacted by email from a person claiming to be a high ranking official in Nigeria. this person has access to a large sum of money and they need you to help them transfer the money out of the country. all you have to ...

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  • Is Global Warming Climate Change The Ultimate Con?
    By: John Henry BA BSc | - Before the dawn of man, there was an indisputable history of climate change. Some of which were dramatic climatic shifts: horrendous storms, numerous ice ages, temperature extremes, huge masses of formerly fertile land converted to desert. All this is part of the rich and continuing tapestry of our planet Earths climate. The important point is that climate change exists without any influence of man whatsoever, and was around long before even the existence of life itself. Indeed mankind ...
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  • Know More About Your Car Air Con Today
    By: Steven Magill | - If you have a car, you need to understand that its air conditioning is very important and so if you see there is a need of some repair, you should be able to look into the problem as quickly as possible. Once you see there is something wrong with it, you need to contact your trusted repair man to fix the issues immediately. But the question is why is it that an air conditioning gets screwed up? The following are the possible reasons as to why it gets busted:

    1. Your compressor doesn ...

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  • An Intimate Glimpe At The Puppeteers Who Are Pulling Our Strings
    By: JOHN HARDY | - Just the other day I was at my local cafe and could not help overhearing a conversation between a small group of hedge fund managers at a neighboring table. One of the young Turks was addressing his fellows, complaining about how the media painted them as the enemy. Another chimed in with a remark about how they did not make the rules, nor did they break them, they merely worked them to their own advantage. A third then pointed out that no competition is perfectly fair, there will always be w ...
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  • How To Play The Players
    By: JOHN HARDY | - We all know these people, those slick, smooth manipulators who seem to get away with murder, do as little as humanly possible and end up living a life of ease and comfort. For a number of reasons our society is set up in such a way that it is very difficult for them to lose. It is as if life was a huge game and they were the master players. What is the average person to do when confronted with such practiced charlatans?

    At first glance, the players seem to have an absolute hold on ...

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  • Comic Con Introduces Top Movies
    By: Aydan Corkern | - Ever since the 1970s, there has been one major event in San Diego that not only validated the comic book's place in American pop culture, but has served as the proverbial Mecca of pop culture. That event is the San Diego Comic Book Convention, or, as it is more affectionately known, Comic Con. Comic Con has been, for years, the place where movie developers, comic book companies, and all sorts of other entertainment venues go to showcase what will be the next wave of their respective products. He ...
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  • Do You Want To Find A Way To Be A Step Ahead Of The Dangerous Scammers In Life?
    By: Kristi Ambrose | - Now in this one instance - I have never fallen for one of those online scams. However, I have been scammed by someone who I thought I knew pretty well. He was actually a business partner of mine. We started a site together and before you knew it he changed all the passwords, his email address, contact info, etc. The site was up, but there was no way to contact him! Pretty shady business. There are scams all over the place - online and offline.

    But if you want to be smart enough t ...

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  • Tax Time Scams--how To Keep I.r.s. From Knocking On Your Door
    By: Jack Payne | - Tax time puts the Law of Argument in the spotlight: Anything is possible if you don't know what you're talking about. If you need a match and a cup of gasoline, aimless tax cheating might qualify you for such playthings.

    So many of the excuses so many taxpayers use at filing time to avoid paying taxes are totally absurd. They are not only plentiful, but unbelievable, child-like. If they are in training to become a professional con man, they have failed miserably. In prison yo ...

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  • Don't Be Victim Of Escrow Scams: How To Lose $630,000 In A Hurry
    By: Jack Payne | - The con artist's credo: The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing; if you can fake that, you've got it made This is closely adhered to in escrow scams. It makes the perfect vehicle.

    A time back a St. Louis man, operating out of Europe, juggled four balls in a con man escrow scam that reads like it was taken directly from the pages of a legal thriller novel. In a perfect timing maneuver he pocketed some $630,000 in one week, by steering four large escrow scams into coming ...

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  • Scam Artists' Outrageous Insurance Scams--do You Really Understand These?
    By: Jack Payne | - We owe the Coalition Against Insurance Fraud, a clearing house for scams information, a word of thanks for these case histories. In their yearly "Hall of Shame," this anchor group, consisting of consumer organizations, government agencies, and insurance companies, came up with a compendium that reads like the Last Refuge for Scoundrels. Here are some horrible examples of how twisted scam artists fabricated their twisted dreams, transformed them into reality. It reads like a tutorial on how to ...
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  • Legal Thriller Author Explains What Every Investor Should Know About Internet Stock Scams
    By: Jack Payne | - A century ago P.T. Barnum sagely told us, "A sucker is born every minute." At the time he was, no doubt, correct.

    No longer. In today's internet world, that time-span has been cut back to every nana second. Now that spam has been somewhat curtailed, scam artists have moved their operations, largely, to internet bulletin boards and chat rooms. That's all. A change of venue. Like maggots fried in hot grease, they have moved, jumped, spread out, occupied many of these new comm ...

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  • Con Men Internet Scams: How To Earn A College Degree Without Earning A College Degree
    By: Jack Payne | - What's a diploma mill? Explanation is right at your finger tips. Just check out the entry in Webster's Third New International Dictionary:

    "Diploma mill: An institution of higher education operating without supervision of a state or professional agency and granting diplomas which are either fraudulent or, because of the lack of proper standards, worthless..."

    Many con men have found the lucrative field of diploma mills--or degree mills--to be as good as gold. In ...

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  • Legal Thriller Author Warns Of Scam Artists' Inheritance Fraud--do Not Make These Deadly Mistakes
    By: Jack Payne | - An attorney (???) phones you and says, "Allow me to introduce myself. I'm John Lawler, attorney, representing the estate of the recently deceased, Irving Generosis. Your name was mentioned in his last will and testament. Naturally, I must confirm certain things about you, before going any further, to be certain I have the right party. Would you answer a few pertinent questions for me, please?"

    At this point your heart is in your throat. You're excited. Who? What? When? W ...

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  • Con Men Scored Big With Saddam Hussein Currency--learn How They Did It
    By: Jack Payne | - A duck's quack does not echo. Foreign exchange not only encompasses mystique, intrigue, but an ideal, echoless shield to hide behind.

    Just before the Saddam execution, before the first of the year, 2007, we purchased some Iraqi currency, 5-dinar (pronounced DEE-nar) notes to 250-dinar notes--all sporting portrait photos of a smiling Saddam on their face--for an average price of 38 cents each. Right after the execution--a matter of just one week--the price tripled, to about $1.10 ...

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  • Con Men's Stock Tips--a Quick Way To Spot Them
    By: Jack Payne | - Pump and Dump stock scams are still around. Here's how to spot the stock tips that emerge from these, and how to protect yourself:

    Worthless stock. Tight float. Thinly traded. These are the basic prerequisites of the "Pump and Dump" stock scam. And, con men, who realize that the most powerful force in the universe is gossip, respond accordingly, to spread the word of these "opportunities."

    First, a microcap company--one with capitalization so small that it is no ...

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  • Learn How Easy You Can Spot The Phone Scams Of A Con Man
    By: Jack Payne | - How does Teflon stick to the pan? This is the sort of question you could be asking yourself after being "taken" by a scam artist telemarketer. Legal phone scams can be devastating enough. No need to go further and fall into an outrightly illegal trap.

    The professional con man does, however, have a big hurdle to leap, right up front in his operations. He must constantly cast his sucker-bait in order to find new victims. Often, the quickest, easiest way to do this is through ...

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  • Con Artists' Legal Trap--do You Believe Phone Polls?
    By: Jack Payne | - So, you thought the purpose of that poll showing 73% of California restaurants now providing salsa as a standing table-top offering was to provide factual data, right?
    Wrong!

    The true purpose of the poll scam, commissioned by a salsa processor, was to further an agenda--to get you to accept as bald fact that salsa, placed alongside salt, pepper, and sugar in that high percentage of restaurants proves its mass-market appeal.

    Intent is to mislead you into bel ...

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  • Legal Thriller Author Urges Bank Account Protection From Scam Artists With Debit Block
    By: Jack Payne | - Wilma J., a former Pennsylvania real estate broker, placed a debit block on her bank account, but only after fraudulent withdrawals of $14,000 through debit card theft. "I didn't even know about debit block," she remorsefully admits. "If I had known, I could have saved myself a lot of money. I wouldn't have gotten cleaned out."

    While on the subject of barn doors, locking, and disappearing horses, consider some of these additional debit card horror stories, as practiced by con me ...

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  • Con Man's Version Of The Living Trust?--little Known Secrets
    By: Jack Payne | - Eat well, stay fit, die anyway. This is the reality you must face when contemplating a living trust.

    Important, if you are contemplating this form of legal instrument: the good, the bad, the needed, and the unneeded of the Intro Vivos Trust, must be considered.
    Be careful of the differences.

    Have you been approached by a telemarketing trust-hustler, an at-your-doorstep quick-buck con man, or been intrigued by an internet ad on this subject? If so, hold up. ...

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  • Con Man's Word Games--don't Be Fooled By A Carnival Barker Pitch
    By: Jack Payne | - Seemingly eons ago, the word, "mark," was born. It was in the 19th century era of the carnival barker that the practice of labeling "marks" originated. Once a victim proved his suckerhood, a shell games operator would slap him on the back with a chalk-filled hand, thus making him identifiable to the other crooked operators on the midway. The carnival con man of the day usually got away with these small-time scams because local authorities wrote such thievery off, "because they'll be gone in 3 ...
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  • Legal Thriller Author Reveals Easy Ways To Spot Natural Disaster Rip-offs
    By: Jack Payne | - Amateur con artists of all stripes find that conning the government is the easiest scam of all Finagle's Law of Bureaucracy: The first myth of management efficiency is that it exists, worked well for the exploiters of Hurricane Katrina.

    When Hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans in 2005, rank amateur con artists had a field day, not even needing the benefits of any particular rip-off training. Collectively they ripped about everything ripable from FEMA's pockets, including the ...

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  • Legal Thriller Author Explores Identity Theft--you Don't Have To Be A Victim
    By: Jack Payne | - Your luck doesn't have to be so bad as the California man, who, in a series of unrelated events, was hit by a car on Sunday, mugged on Monday, and shot on Tuesday. But, if you lose your identity to a con man, your foul luck level could be close.

    With a con man-launched barrage, stolen identities are rising at a rate of up to 10,000,000 per year, creating a problem that is now approaching crisis proportions.

    If we were a fire-eating, Bible-thumping preacher, we wou ...

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  • Con Men Rejection--how To Protect Yourself: Test Your Home Habits First
    By: Jack Payne | - Wrong choices in your home financial management would be like taking on a stock broker who is the Uncle Fester of portfolio styling You might be extending an open invitation to con men and not even know it. This self-check of your personal habits could reveal this tendency.

    Do you have the proper armor to resist the advances of con men? First step toward self-protection against them is a look-in-the-mirror analysis of your own personal habits. And, these all begin at home. Th ...

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  • Legal Con Man Scam?--learn How Easy You Can Lose Weight
    By: Jack Payne | - What's over when the fat lady sings?
    The aggressive marketer thinks he knows. So does the con man.

    Apparently it is interpreted by the consumer as a shrinkage of the waistline, rather than shrinkage of his / her wallet. If so, the national obesity fight is providing myriad opportunities for legal scams by con men.

    Resulting from the widespread appeal of keeping one's stomach from looking like a deflated clown balloon, it is amazing to what lengths some weigh ...

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  • Legal Thriller Author Asks: Legal Stock Tips Or Con Man Boiler Room?--are You A Victim?
    By: Jack Payne | - Like a high-gloss diamond ring on the hand of a glamorous fashion model, the offices of a legitimate stock brokerage will sparkle. When you visit one you will not feel like you are going up against a card shark in a gambling casino. You will quickly conclude that these are not the premises of a scam artist's carnival midway joy ride.

    They will showcase a good balance of offerings. Many of these will be with Fortune 500 companies and a good cross-section of well-known, prestigi ...

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  • Scam Artist Or Ethical Stock Broker?--how You Can Tell The Difference
    By: Jack Payne | - The quickest way to tell if your stock broker is a scam artist, using your account for broker profits rather than yours, is to look for evidence of "churning."

    Say you have just opened a stock brokerage account and your broker puts you into Fast Buck Industries as your very first "investment." You get your first statement and see that she has traded Fast Buck three times. You also note several stocks listed that you had not discussed.
    It's only unethical or illegal if ...

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  • Legal Thriller Author Reveals 24 Amazing Scam Artists' Conflict Resolution Steps
    By: Jack Payne | - Fighting off skeptics as a means of "group control" is psychologically important to the scam artist.

    In every group of victims, the scam artist's problem is that he must always be able to adequately "handle" those few skeptics who will emerge to plague him. A much different setting than when he's dealing with a single mark. Thus, his own interpretation of "conflict resolution" spells out as much different rules of engagement than that contained in any college curriculum. Here t ...

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  • Legal Thriller Book Author Warns Of "paper Trails" Scams Epidemic
    By: Jack Payne | - Why is the con man so good at passing himself off as the most qualified authority on redemptive truth since Pontius Pilot? For the same reason Willie Sutton robbed banks, because, "that's where the money is." Money, to the scamsters, is like blood is to sharks. Unlike bank robbers, who rely on gun expertise, get-away cars, and hideouts, the polished con artist rolls the dice based on his self-presumed intellect, charisma, charm, and powers of persuasion. He is boisterous, loud. He pours it ...
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  • Con Men's Best Get-rich-quick Opportunity: Identity Theft
    By: Jack Payne | - What we learn from history is that we do not learn from history. That's Identity theft. For some reason, these many horror stories appear to leave little or no impression on the public. Profoundly hard to understand.

    We're sure you wouldn't drink a quart of milk just before riding a roller-coaster. You wouldn't enjoy the ride any more than you'd enjoy the response if you were to walk into a crowded bikers' bar and loudly yell, "You're all a bunch of pussies." We're sure that, ...

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  • Con Man Or Average Citizen? Pursuing Zany Jury Awards
    By: Jack Payne | - More and more plaintiffs and trial lawyers are chasing unconscionable quick buck pay-offs, using con man tactics. Which came first, pillage or burn? This seems to be the the question asked by these people in going to court.

    Is it the water, something they're smoking? Or, is it just plain, blind greed played out to a ridiculous extreme? Whatever the reason, frivolous law suits, pursued by supposedly mentally-stable people, have literally gone through the roof of the U.S. court ...

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  • Legal Thriller Author Analyzes Paper Trails Scams
    By: Jack Payne | - If 75% of women wear the wrong bra size, and 75% of men wear shirts with the wrong sleeve length, is it any wonder that so many people do not understand paper trails, do not understand their critical roles in con games? Fraud, shell games, scandal-revelation and creation, and rip-offs of every kind flower from this tell-tale debris.

    And, alas, most importantly, it is essential to understand how all of this paper trail information is tied together by social security numbers. (F ...

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  • Con Man's Rapture: Mail Theft Made Easy, Compliments Of Your U.s. Postal Service
    By: Jack Payne | - Criminals regularly "case" residential neighborhoods, staking out homes that are vacant--due to vacationing, business travels, or other away-from-home reasons. Object, of course, is to, when empty, burglarize them.

    Identity thieves are now taking the easy way when engaging in this pastime. They simply gather up the names and addresses, fill out change-of-address forms at the Post Office, and await delivery of this mail to a new address of their choosing. There they can leisurel ...

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  • Legal Thriller Author Examines 15 Amazing Scam Artists' "conspiracy Theory" Tricks
    By: Jack Payne | - The best scams are built around conspiracy theories. They afford the ultimate shell game.

    Why?

    Because it gives the scam artist "cover." It fortifies him with an automatic defense against his critics. It exonerates him from past failures. And, importantly, it provides an excuse for future delays, gives him time to run for cover when everything collapses. In other words, it creates the perfect stage setting from which to operate.

    Overall, a well-d ...

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  • Legal Thriller Author Dissects Con Man-inspired Courtroom Scam
    By: Jack Payne | - You go to the track to play the horses. Bad day. You lose $5,000. You try to recoup by buying 1,000 lottery tickets. With the 100,000,000 to 1 odds against you so drastically reduced, you now have an excellent chance of winning, don't you? Wrong. Next you clean out your bank accounts, borrow on your insurance policies, take a second mortgage on your house, and go to Las Vegas. Ignoring how storm clouds form, you know you can turn your run of bad luck around and come out of your mire smell ...
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  • Con Man's Legal Phone Scam - 900 Phone Line Offer
    By: Jack Payne | - Several of the 900-phone line operators are now offering to share the wealth: give you a chance to be just like them. They will set you up in business for yourself, the easy way: they will do all the work, and you sit back and enjoy the profits. They already have the facilities, and the phone operators / answerers / counselors--or whatever you would call these people--and are now extending the hand of friendship toward your wallet. "Sharemanship" you might otherwise call it.

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