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Harassed by shortages, Tom Grey votes for the removal of price control after reading propaganda issued by the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM). When prices rise, he views a Union film, "The Big Squeeze," which places the blame for high prices on monopoly control of our economy, and points out the advantages of membership in the Union. Membership recruiting film for UERMWA, CIO (also known as the UE), presenting the viewpoint that there...
6) Scams
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Pay close attention - what you discover in this episode of Brain Games will keep you from falling for a scam. In a robbery, the victim is forced to give up money or possessions. In a scam or con, the victim hands over his or her valuables willingly. Each year, millions of people around the world fall for some sort of scam or fraud. Through a series of interactive games and experiments, you'll discover how easily your brain is deceived. Scammers and...
7) Scams
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It has been estimated that almost 70% of all email traffic is spam. And, in the online world, it is Nigeria that is often seen as the biggest culprit. Ben Hammersley travels to Lagos to meet online scammers and the police tasked with tracking them down. He also tells the incredible story of how, in the mid-90s, Nigerian scammers stole nearly a quarter of a billion dollars from Brazilian bank Noroeste. But in a diverse country of 168 million and the...
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Americans waste over one billion dollars a year on worthless health products and practices. This film exposes the cunning traps and trappings of the fraud, the quack, and the charlatan who prey on all strata of our society. In a series of vignettes, it tells us how to distinguish between legitimate and fraudulent health services and products and how to outwit the quack and quackery. Tells how to distinguish between legitimate and fraudulent health...
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In the early 20th century, Charles Ponzi duped countless investors out of their savings through an elaborate plan known today as a Ponzi scheme. In this episode of Scammed, we study the Saxton case to find out how a Ponzi scheme works and the devastating loss it can bring to all those who are innocently manipulated into investing.
11) Identity Theft
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Identity theft has become a major and common type of fraudulent crime worldwide. Whether it involves forging documents or stealing personal information, identity theft is not limited by borders and it affects people of all walks of life. In this episode of Scammed, we meet Detectives Glass and Staab as they each guide us through two separate, fascinating identity theft cases. In the first half, Officer Glass shares with us a crime of forgery, through...
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This episode of Scammed takes us through three classic scams. First we examine how credit card skimming works; then we briefly consider the trust required for scammers to pull off an investment fraud; and finally we look at the case of a woman who loses her entire business due to the deceptive advance fee scam, one of the most common types of confidence frauds.
14) Human highway
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The new owner of a roadside diner stuck in a town built around an always-leaking nuclear power plant plans to torch the place to collect insurance.
15) Con man
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The true story of Barry Minkow, a charismatic teenager, turned business man, who became the youngest person ever to defraud Wall Street.
16) The heiresses
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Chela and Chiquita, both descended from wealthy families in Asuncion, Paraguay, have been together for over 30 years. But recently their financial situation has worsened, and they begin selling off their inherited possessions. But when their debts lead to Chiquita being imprisoned on fraud charges, Chela is forced to face a new reality.
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Academy Award winner Alex Gibney directs a documentary investigating the rise and fall of Theranos, the one-time multibillion-dollar healthcare company founded by Elizabeth Holmes. In 2004, Elizabeth Holmes dropped out of Stanford to start a company that was going to revolutionize healthcare. In 2014, Theranos was valued at $9 billion, making Holmes, who was touted as "the next Steve Jobs," the youngest self-made female billionaire in the world. Just...
18) The outsider
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Tells the true story of France's greatest financial scandal and Jerome Kerviel, the low-profile young trader who was held responsible. When all was said and done, the bank suffered a huge loss. Kerviel was fired, sued, arrested and imprisoned, making him the most famous Frenchman to ever sit in front of a Bloomberg Terminal and pay the price.
19) Marjoe
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A documentary on Marjoe Gortner, who was trained by his holy roller parents to hustle for Jesus and began preaching on the evangelical circuit when he was three years old. Follows Marjoe during his last months of rock-style preaching before his retirement at 28, and includes his comments on life as a con-man and the ethics of his colleagues in the religion business.