Arizona "Get Rich Quick Online" Scammers Swindle $19.5 Million From Buyers

[mandy]

A Phoenix company swindled $19.5 million from unsuspecting customers in exchange for the promise of being able to get rich quick through the Internet, according to state and federal investigators who have shut the business down.

Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard and the Federal Trade Commission said Tuesday that the Results Group LLC and two of its top managers have been ordered to pay almost a half million dollars in fines for violating fraud and telemarketing laws...

"They preyed upon folks who were looking for a possible new career or way to make money at home, and unfortunately this is a common scheme, especially with the economy being not as strong as it has been," Goddard said at a news conference Tuesday...

full article: http://www.azcentral.com/business/articl...t0822.html

[BellisimaJ.]

Gee, what a surprise coming from Arizona, home of scammers-r-us.









edit to correct a typo :

[jezebel]

from unsuspecting customers in exchange for the promise of being able to get rich quick through the Internet

'Unsuspecting' is the wrong word to use in connection with any get rich quick scheme.  STUPID, MORONIC, and GULLIBLE are the correct words to use.