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BlueStreak

(8,377 posts)
Fri Jan 10, 2014, 11:58 AM Jan 2014

Not exactly news, but beware the scammers on right-wing radio

Now that most legitimate businesses have pulled their advertising from RW talk radio, what you are left with is the crooks and bottom feeders. These are people with get rich quick schemes, and "can't miss investments" like opening an exercise gym franchise or becoming the next baron in cheap ass vending machines that nobody wants to use.

An elderly family member is singing the blues after losing a bunch of money buying gold from an outfit advertising on Limbaugh. Today, he said he wants to cut his losses and put it into something "safer". He heard an ad for retirement annuities again on the Limbaugh show. I did a little research and found this guy had been convicted of insurance fraud in 2006, had his license suspended, had to pay restitution to his victims, plus a $250,000 fine. But he's baaaaaack. How a person like that gets a license to sell annuities is a mystery to me.

Anyway, just beware. Anything advertised on RW talk radio is undoubtedly a fraud. And sometimes the advertising on the XM Progress channel ain't much better.

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Not exactly news, but beware the scammers on right-wing radio (Original Post) BlueStreak Jan 2014 OP
Hate radio is a scam. Orsino Jan 2014 #1
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