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		<title>Walmart Short Changes California Consumers</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 20:08:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jmattes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Walmart is now shortchanging thousands of consumers in California when they return merchandise. Here is how the scheme operates. Consumers who bought an item prior to July 1, 2011 were charged the price of them item plus sales tax which might in some areas be as high as 8.50%.  On July 1, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DORITOS SHORTCHANGE CONSUMERS</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2011 18:29:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Someone stole my Doritos. How often do you hear that cry while watching football with friends? If you haven’t heard it, you soon will as someone has stolen  20% out of Doritos bags across America. The thief, it turns out, is Frito-Lay which has confessed recently that they have shortchanged consumers 20% over the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dollar Rent a Car  Refuel Scam</title>
		<link>http://www.investigativeguy.com/dollar-rent-a-car-refuel-scam/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2011 17:44:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jmattes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Car rental companies are notorious for tacking on hidden extra charges when you you get your bill ,but Dollar Rent A  Car has one that takes the cake. Dollar now has a  refuel charge  if you return the car with the tank full but you don’t have a receipt . Yes even [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SCAMMERS TO GET RICH OFF STRANDED TRAVELERS</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Dec 2010 17:10:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The misery of stranded travelers in airports worldwide  could mean record profits for companies that swindle travelers at airports. Case in point, BBG Communications which has 350,000 pay phones in airports world wide.The company has a policy of not disclosing to consumers the outrageous amounts consumers get charged when they swipe a credit card [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FTC EXCUSES GRAVE ROBBERS</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Nov 2010 22:28:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jmattes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rest in peace is not a term on the minds of bureaucrats at the FTC.  The FTC has proposed new rules, no, not to protect you, the consumer, but to give debt collectors more rights. They have proposed allowing debt collectors to go after larger numbers of people linked  to a person who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BANK PRESIDENTS WHO LOOTED BANKS TO BE FORCED TO GIVE BACK THE MONEY</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Oct 2010 18:59:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jmattes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[WOW, what a concept. In the old days the cops used to make bank robbers return the loot, but somehow that tradition changed. In recent years bank robbers  (i.e. directors and presidents) somehow got the idea that if they looted banks and left them broke, they could get a bailout and keep what they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scentura Job Scam Just Won&#8217;t Stop</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2010 04:24:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jmattes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Give Scentura credit.. despite conning people for over 10 years with bogus offers of managers&#8217; jobs, these folks won&#8217;t quit. The scam has not changed one bit in 10 years and all the con men read from the same playbook. They advertise, offering positions as managers, you take the bait and go for an interview [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MAN WHO ATTACKED TV REPORTER ON CAMERA BUSTED. AGAIN</title>
		<link>http://www.investigativeguy.com/man-who-attacked-tv-reporter-on-camera-busted-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 21:56:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jmattes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[UPDATE SAM SULEIMAN SENTENCED TO 2 YEARS  FOR STEALING FROM THE ELDERLY.. 
It was as wild as it gets when in 2006 Sam Suleiman, an alleged mortgage fraud kingpin, attacked TV reporter John Mattes (me) on camera. Suleiman served 10 months for the attack. 
Now Suleiman, along with his wife Rosa, has been charged [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Computer Generated Lawsuits Target Consumers</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 18:49:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jmattes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[COMPUTER GENERATED LAWSUITS TARGET CONSUMERS
It&#8217;s bad enough that debt collectors often harass consumers for debts they don’t owe. But now, tens of thousands of computer-generated debt collection lawsuits are being filed against often-innocent consumers.  
Here is what is happening.
The New York Times reports that debt collection law firms are now using software to create [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FREE BIG SCREEN TVS, COURTESY OF CONGRESS</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 19:37:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jmattes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[    FREE BIG SCREEN TVS, COURTESY OF CONGRESS
If this sounds like just another Congressional stimulus program that never really helps anyone, it&#8217;s not. This is a direct cash program that could help homeowners buy a big screen TV. We call it the Free Big Screen TV Earmark Program for Homeowners. 
Here&#8217;s how [...]]]></description>
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