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Monday (2)…Confidence scams

June 1st, 2009 · No Comments · General

You’re heard the term “con man”. The term doesn’t derive from the term “convict”, as some believe, but from “confidence man”, meaning someone who swindles his or her victim after gaining their confidence. Often the con man (or woman) targets specific groups they are part of–a church, a neighborhood, an ideological group, etc. This works [...]

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Monday…Court documents yield more details in Maui scam case

June 1st, 2009 · 4 Comments · Crime, Politics

Of course, I had to thumb through the Honolulu Advertiser’s “best of the best” advertising supplement. Safeway was the top rated grocery store. By coincidence, the latest issue of Consumer Reports rates supermarkets, and Safeway was #44 on their list. That is either a comment on our limited range of choices or perhaps the limited [...]

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