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Many years ago, Lyle (Jeff Bridges) and Vinnie (Nick Nolte) pulled a complicated race-track scam. It made the former rich, the latter guilt-ridden. Unaware of the statute of limitations, Vinnie now belatedly launches into a more muddled plan of blackmail and retribution, requiring the complicity of the chief victim of the original crime (Albert Finney), who has made slightly pretentious peace with the past. Derived from a not-very-successful Sam Shepard play, this is a shaggy, overstuffed film. But the actors (including Sharon Stone as Lyle's drunken wife and Catherine Keener as a wise innocent...
Even as the Web was twanging with news of the Maxus scam, Attorney General Janet Reno proposed a crime-fighting network designed to combat just such cybercriminality. The move may protect the next e-tailer victimized by Net extortion, but it has come too late to help this...
...lives in the Philippines and doesn't just fill my In box with recycled jokes. But this message didn't sound like Mike. He's goofy, yes, but he's no used-car salesman. It was trying to sell me something, with a tone that made me think, Scam alert! The offer: get paid to surf the Web. I had to check...
...SCAM SLAM Government agencies have taken action against some 600 Internet outfits, alleging that many are pyramid schemes posing as marketing companies, which require hefty investments from participants. Last month the FTC asked a judge to shut down 2Xtreme, which persuaded some 60,000 recruits to buy expensive marketing kits for New Age products. Their earnings were tied to developing "downlines," i.e., new recruits. For more info, visit www.consumer.gov...
Industry representatives support uniform regulation but hope officials don't go too far in their zeal to crack down. "It's a critical option that every terminally ill person should have," says Valerie Cooper, executive director of the NVA, who claims scam artists don't represent the bulk of law-abiding viatical providers, like Page & Associates and the Ardan Group. Gloria Wolk, chief consumer advocate for viaticals www.viatical-expert.net) is worried that money for legitimate viatical settlements could disappear: "Fraud can destroy this industry and leave patients high...