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Yes Virginia, You Can (And Should) Sue Telemarketers Posted by Pile (10641 views) [E-Mail link]	[Get-Rich-Quick]
When Andr�-Tascha Lamm� was granted a judgment of $3,500 last month in a Sacramento, Calif., small claims court, he heard gasps. �You could hear people in the courtroom saying, �You can sue telemarketers?�� he said. You can. In fact, you can make some decent cash for your trouble.
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Canadian Company Wants To Photograph Every House In U.S. Posted by Pile (9092 views) [E-Mail link]	[Get-Rich-Quick]
Photographers from a Canadian company are going house to house, shooting pictures of the roughly 300,000 houses in metropolitan Tucson, Arizona. It's part of an effort to photograph and appraise every house in the country, creating a database that can be sold to banks and insurance companies. I wonder if everyone is particularly keen on this Canadian company taking pictures of their house and selling them to the highest bidders?
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The 9 Weirdest Tax Write-Offs Posted by Pile (10738 views) [E-Mail link]	[Get-Rich-Quick]
Did you hear the one about the ostrich? The sperm donor? The dog food? They're just three of the more ingenious tax deductions that creative Americans have devised over the years to counterpunch the tax collector. A quick Ali shuffle, a feint with the left and an outlandish deduction delivered with a straight face can take the sting out of the annual tax beating -- at least until the Internal Revenue Service catches on.
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Coming To Your Neighborhood Soon: Designer Embryos Posted by Pile (9774 views) [E-Mail link]	[Get-Rich-Quick]
The FDA is investigating a business run by a San Antonio woman who buys select human sperm and eggs and creates high-class embryos for sale out of her suburban home.
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J.P. Morgan Accounts Prove To Be Fraud-Friendly Posted by Pile (9808 views) [E-Mail link]	[Get-Rich-Quick]
One moment Dave DeSmidt had $179,000 in his 401(k) retirement account, the next he had nothing. In an instant, 25 years of savings had disappeared. With a few clicks, someone raided DeSmidt�s retirement account with J.P. Morgan & Co and ordered a full disbursement to a private checking account.
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Puff Daddy Caught Selling Dog Fur Coats Posted by Pile (12062 views) [E-Mail link]	[Get-Rich-Quick]
Macy's has pulled from its shelves and its Web site two styles of Sean John hooded jackets, originally advertised as featuring faux fur, after an investigation by the nation's largest animal protection organization concluded that the garments were actually made from a certain species of dog called "raccoon dog."
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Nut Theft Ring Cracked Posted by wizeGurl (9502 views) [E-Mail link]	[Get-Rich-Quick]
Thieves who made off with more than $1.7 million in nuts were apprehended recently when a suspicious ware house owner noticed large numbers of squirrels lurking outside one of his rented spaces. Okay, really he noticed the perpetrators repackaging nuts for shipment, but you have to think that the squirrels were probably onto them long before that.
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The Nigerian Black Money Scam Posted by Pile (11160 views) [E-Mail link]	[Get-Rich-Quick]
There are hundreds of variations on the Nigerian e-mail scams, including one in which the victims are told they've inherited millions, millions in money that has been painted black to smuggle it out of Nigeria. In the scam, as caught on hidden cameras in Amsterdam, victims are told there is a special, very expensive chemical that can clean the black money so it can be used. The latest idiots to get caught by this scheme include a California heart surgeon who was bilked out of $340,000 and a fundamentalist Christian church.
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Kent Hovind Goes Off To Jail Posted by Pile (11040 views) [E-Mail link]	[Get-Rich-Quick]
Jurors convicted fundamentalist creationist preacher, Kent Hovind on 58 counts of tax fraud last night. The founder of Creation Science Evangelism is accused of failing to pay $845,000 in employee taxes at the dinosaur theme park, an amusement park that exposed visitors to Hovind and his followers' view that human and dinosaurs coexisted and that evolution did not occur. Hovind, who faces a maximum of 288 years in prison, was taken into custody after the jury read its verdict. Jesus was unavilable for comment.
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How Much Is That Mummy In The Window? Posted by ueberbill (8445 views) [E-Mail link]	[Humor] [Get-Rich-Quick]
An eBay auction for the mummified remains of what appears to authorities to be a child was shut down recently and efforts are underway to determine just whose mummy this might be. Selling mummified human remains is against eBay's policies (and gross), although the bid got up to $500 bucks (from an eBayer by the monicker of "Satan's Child," no less) before Port Huron, MI authorities and the eBay staff were notified.
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