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NCJ Number: 140907 Add to Shopping cart Find in a Library
Title: Primer on Con Games: Facts, Examples, and Resources
Journal: Topics in Crime Prevention  Dated:(1992)  Pages:3-8
Date Published: 1992
Annotation: Resources are identified to help prevent telemarketing and telephone fraud, mail fraud, investment fraud, and health fraud.
Abstract: Everyone who has a telephone represents a target of con artists, and telemarketing fraud has grown in recent years. For example, pay-per-call 900 telephone numbers often offer contest prizes, bogus products, and suspect services. In another popular scam, computer hackers on college campuses sell long-distance telephone services to students at extremely low fee. In addition, con artists steal phone card numbers, often posing as a telephone company investigator or law enforcement officer. Businesses with Private Branch Exchange systems often do not realize they are also vulnerable to toll fraud through remote access and voice mail features. The Mail Fraud Statute protects consumers from any type of fraudulent scheme that uses the mail in any way. An estimated $10 billion a year is lost to investment fraud, and investment swindlers have a range of options at their disposal (land sales, timeshare, commodities and futures trading, franchies, financial planning services, gold and silver, rare coins, and oil and gas leases). In health fraud, con artists play on people's desire to find shortcuts to better health and miracle cures for chronic conditions and fatal diseases. Elderly Americans alone spend an estimated $10 billion yearly on questionable or fraudulent health products and services. Organizations to contact to obtain information about fraud are listed.
Main Term(s): Consumer fraud
Index Term(s): Medical fraud; Postal crimes; Securities/Investment Fraud; Telemarketing fraud
Grant Number: 86-MU-CX-K002
Sponsoring Agency: Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA)
Washington, DC 20531
National Crime Prevention Council
Arlington, VA 22202-4801
Corporate Author: National Crime Prevention Council
United States of America
Page Count: 6
Format: Article
Type: Citizen Involvement Material
Language: English
Country: United States of America
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