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Fraudulent Services

Fraud is a crime and a civil law violation. No one has a right to deprive anyone of their money or valuables through illegitimate means. Yet, fraudulent services do this every day. Fraud can be committed by phone, through the mail or Internet, and even in person. Sometimes it is a small or false business that is hard to track, and sometimes it is a large corporation that we thought we could trust. No matter what the situation, the attorneys at 1-800-LAW-FIRM are here to advise you of your rights. Do you believe that you, a friend, or a relative have been exploited through any of the following means? If so, we want to know about it. These practices are unfair and illegal. Call us today to enforce your rights and protect future victims.

• Subscription fraud: unwanted, undesired or misrepresented memberships.
• Service fraud: overcharges or misrepresentations by companies providing services. For example: telephone/cell phone, cable/internet, financial, and medical companies.
• Securities fraud: also known as stock fraud and investment fraud, a practice that induces investors to make purchase or sale decisions on the basis of false information, frequently resulting in losses, in violation of the securities laws.
• Mortgage fraud/real estate lender fraud
• Real estate broker fraud
• Real estate business fraud
• Bait and switch
• Bankruptcy fraud
• Benefit fraud: fraud to get government benefits.
• Charlatanism, quackery, or deception
• Counterfeiting or forgery of currency, documents or valuable goods
• Computer crime
• Confidence tricks: such as the “419 fraud,” letters or e-mail making an offer that would result in a large payoff for the victim.
• Embezzlement: taking money which one has been entrusted with on behalf of another party.
• False companies, also known as “long firms.”
• False Advertising
• False Billing
• Forgery of signatures
• Health fraud: selling products known not to be effective, such as quack medicines.
• Identity theft
• Investment frauds: such as, Ponzi and Pyramid schemes.
• Moving scam
• Religious fraud
• Securities Fraud, such as Pump and Dump: artificially inflating the price of an owned stock through false and misleading positive statements, in order to sell the cheaply purchased stock at a higher price.