What Scam Artists Don't Want Smart Consumers like You to Know

Oprah Winfrey did a show that was aired in early 2007 and was repeated on August 3rd and it was titled "What the Scam Artists Don't Want You To Know" and it was a very interesting show because it was revealing new tricks that identity theives are using to scam you and to use your identity to open accounts and putting things in your name for them to use without your knowledge and they went down the list of some of the most common scams and giving tips on how to avoid becoming a victim of identity theft.

As someone who has been the victim of identity theft it's hard because it messes up your credit and ruins your credibility and making it extremely difficult to get credit and other financial assistance because your credit was shot because someone decided to steal your credit card or number and started charging things on it and then what's worse is that you would think your financial institution would be on your side they accused me of running up the tab and trying to get out of paying it.

It's pretty sad how some banks will treat their customers like criminals when they're the innocent party out of all this and they're the ones who are going to struggle trying to get their good name back. The hard deal is that many identity theives are in fact drug users and illegal immigrants preferably from Mexico and other Latin American countries who come here illegally and buy stolen social security numbers and other things like doctored legal papers. The most famous of all scams is the Nigerian 419 advance fee scam.

The code 419 is the code for the Nigerian law used to prosecute scammers who perform illegal activities under the statutes. Countless Americans are scammed of millions of dollars and Oprah had someone from ABC news on her show who in fact went to Nigeria and explained that the reason this scam happens is because as many people know most of the countries in Africa are extremely poor and mainly due to a corrupt government and/or corrupt government officials and the lack of job opportunities and it's mostly males who conduct this illegal scam and they learn the scam in school.