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Tom Vu. Information accurate as of 14 July 2014. Tuan Anh Vu ( Vietnamese: Vũ Tuấn Anh; born December 5, 1957), [1] better known as Tommy or Tom Vu, is a Vietnamese American poker player, real estate investor and speaker best remembered as an infomercial personality in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Swampland in Florida. A freshwater swamp in Florida. Swampland in Florida is a figure of speech referring to real estate scams in which a seller misrepresents unusable swampland as developable property. These types of unseen property scams became widely known in the United States in the 20th century, and the phrase is often used metaphorically ...
Don Lapre. Donald D. Lapre (May 19, 1964 – October 2, 2011) [1] was an American multi-level marketing and infomercial salesman. His work involved product packages such as "The Greatest Vitamin in the World" and "Making Money Secrets". Lapre was criticized as selling questionable business plans that often did not work for his clients.
The New York Times reports that the Carleton Sheets infomercials that were ubiquitous a couple years ago are now off the air, as the real estate training mogul struggles with his tarnished ...
Nationwide, in 2021, 11,578 people reported losing roughly $350 million due to these types of scams — a 64% jump from the previous year, according to the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center.
Purchasing a home is like investing in a piece of your legacy. Unfortunately, this makes real estate a prime target for con artists. According to the FBI’s Internet Crime Report 2021, the losses ...
Matthew Bevan "Matt" Cox (born July 2, 1969) is an American former mortgage broker and admitted mortgage fraudster. Cox, also a true crime author, wrote an unpublished manuscript entitled The Associates in which the main character traveled the country to perpetrate a mortgage fraud scheme similar to the one Cox ran.
Last year, there were a total of 9,521 reported real estate scams, including title theft, according to the FBI’s annual Internet Crime Report — a number that has stayed relatively stable over ...