124Chapter 3 • Understanding the People on the Scene
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Business and investment “opportunities”These range from work-
at-home scams that require you to purchase an expensive starter kit and
don’t provide actual jobs to day-trading programs and solicitations for
investment in worthless real estate.According to the Better Business
Bureau (www.bbb.org/library/faithscams.asp),the number of investment
con artists who attempt to take advantage of their victims’religious
beliefs has been rising dramatically. The SEC maintains a Web site on
how to prevent Internet investment scams at www.sec.gov/investor/
pubs/cyberfraud.htm.
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Scams involving health-care pr ...
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