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The best ways to avoid getting conned

Olga Khazan, The Atlantic (Jeff Morgan is pictured) In November, I came across a story that made absolutely no sense to me. A 33-year-old consultant named Niall Rice gave $718,000, little by little, to two Manhattan psychics who promised to reunite him with an old...

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The 9 rules scammers use to sell junk

Here are the rules for selling junk science, based upon the methods of radio pioneer John Brinkley, who became a multimillionaire in the 1930s by convincing millions of Americans that he could restore male virility by implanting goat glands. #1: Tie your product to...

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