The Bizop News
"Misleading advertising law: due diligence for income earning opportunities."
Author: Michael Webster is a solo practitioner in Toronto.
Blawg Related Categories: Advertising Law • Consumer Law • Contracts • Corporate Law • International Law • Law Practice Management • Tort Law • Solo / Small Firm • Business Law
Recent Posts from The Bizop News
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FTC to Empirically Study Fraud - Finally!
Image via WikipediaThe FTC has finally decided to start studying fraud and not simply rely upon the discredited notion of disclosure for prevention. The FTC...
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FTC on Business Opportunity Fraud
The FTC has produced a very good video about business opportunity fraud, the buying of a job with unrealistic earnings claims, with Jim Vitale...
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Easy Google Profit Scam
One of my simple tests for fraud is this: when a website offering a business opportunity gets more attention than the FTC's site, the...
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The Michael Jackson Tributes
Image via WikipediaStanton Peele has a good take on the Michael Jackson tributes:"Some people, although revered in some respects, are more inconvenient alive. For example,...
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Is ACN a Pyramid Scam?
Image via WikipediaAt the scam.com forum, there is considerable debate about whether ACN is a pyramid scam.One poster cites, in support of his theory that...
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Advanced Money Management Ponzi
From the SEC Press Release on Advanced Money Management Ponzi scheme:The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged a Chula Vista, California resident and two entities...
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Regan Ponzi
From the SEC Press Release on the Regan Ponzi scheme.The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Michael C. Regan (Regan) and his firm, Regan &...
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Expecting the Wrong things From Regulators
"How did alleged con man "Sir" Allen Stanford go from being a failed Texas fitness-club owner to becoming Antigua's in-your-face answer to Bernard Madoff?And...
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Freedom Foreclosure Busted
Image by Getty Images via DaylifeFrom the FTC Press Release about a bogus mortgage foreclosure scheme:"At the request of the Federal Trade Commission, a federal...
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The 7 Habits of Highly Suspicious Funds
Image by Getty Images via DaylifeRick Bookstaber has very interesting checklist for determining the riskiness of a hedge fund.You've heard this story before: A trader...