1. --Conned!  “Being smart is NOT enough to protect yourself from dangerous Internet scams, frustrating spam, or devious identity theft” --
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to work with a partner or alone to research current scams & frauds that are happening in OUR area (West MI / MI)!
--if alone  minimum 2 scams
--if in a partnership  minimum 4 scams (total)
For EACH fraud/scam, you/the group will need to find & summarize:
1.) a definition of the scam / fraud (how does it work?)
2.) how many people fall victim to the fraud each year
(find estimated statistics worldwide and/or locally)
3.) at least one news article for each scam
Please print a copy of the news articles, but you must use YOUR OWN WORDS to summarize (NO cutting/pasting/reordering words). You MUST also have a bibliography list of the websites you used.
Feel free to use the following as a “jumping off point” to find/research frauds: -- -- -- --
--or Google the word “mlive” with “scam,” “fraud” or other search terms to find local news