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Most of those surveyed thought that older Americans were not being adequately informed about financial swindles.
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It is a good bet that similar swindles are still going on elsewhere, undetected.
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Among Wall Street's many mysteries--the secret deals, the hidden transactions, the devious schemes and swindles--are its underground societies.
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We discovered that the U.S. is in the grip of the most devastating epidemic of investment swindles and near-swindles in its history.
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It swindles savers, fleeces lenders, pumps taxes higher and triggers malinvestment.
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The big communist front outfits that fought propaganda wars, awash with cash and stuffed with spies, have fizzled away in a mixture of apathy and swindles.
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Web site winebid.com charges buyers a fee of 14% and sellers up to 18% and looks for swindles by inspecting the wine for tampering, among other things.
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Not that such swindles do not happen: some fortune-telling gypsies, for example, use psychological manipulation to predict disaster unless their clients give them large amounts of money.
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Elliott, the consumer advocate and author of "Scammed: How to Save Your Money and Find Better Service in a World of Schemes, Swindles and Shady Deals, " said he'd feel better about the TSA if it eliminated its Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response, or VIPR, teams at train stations and NFL games and instead stuck to airport security.
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