Scamworld articles

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  Article

  Bad SEO: a martial arts champ responds to rape allegations with Internet Marketing trickery

  By Matt Stroud on April 9, 2013 12:45 pm + 99 comments

  Our "Scamworld" series has shed some light on a number of internet-based con artists over the last Continue reading…

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  Herbalife stock trading halted amid allegations of insider trading at auditing firm

  By Matt Stroud on April 9, 2013 10:55 am + 15 comments

  Herbalife, the $8 billion multi-level marketing company that’s been the target of pyramid scheme Continue reading…

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  Income At Home, Herbalife, and the $8 billion pyramid

  By Matt Stroud on March 27, 2013 11:00 am + 294 comments

  By Matt Stroud and Joseph L. Flatley, with additional reporting by Jesse Hicks Barron Hansen is a Continue reading…

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  Juicing the pyramid: is Herbalife an $8 billion house of cards?

  By Matt Stroud on March 7, 2013 02:30 pm + 204 comments

  Herbalife is one of the largest nutritional supplement companies in the world, employing some 5,000 Continue reading…

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  Mitt Romney goes to Scamworld: Prosper, Inc. and its powerful friends

  By Joseph L. Flatley on June 8, 2012 12:00 pm + 499 comments

  The publication of the original “Scamworld” article rattled some cages, and it also opened a lot Continue reading…

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  Scamworld: 'Get rich quick' schemes mutate into an online monster

  By Joseph L. Flatley on May 10, 2012 10:32 am + 1028 comments

  On a warm summer day in 2002, in Charlevoix, Michigan, Richard Joseph’s bad luck began. The Continue reading…