By Rabbi
Eli Teitelbaum
A collection of essays on the topics
of chain letters, psychic fraud, Ponzi schemes, MLM pyramid schemes, schemes of
deception, health and medical fraud, business fraud, bait and switch scams,
religious fraud, and much more. Protect yourself from the scam artists and
cheats who try to rip you off!
One must realize that there are many
con artists out there who have been trying to steal money from our community
with schemes of all sorts. I know that these scam artists will never end
but if we can stop even one of them, it’ll be well worth it. I've put some of
my articles together so that others can learn from these experiences. Past
experience has proven that not everyone is familiar with these matters and therefore
may have given incorrect advice to their good friends. I do hope these articles
will help clarify the subject and prevent people from falling into the hands of
the many charlatans waiting to pounce upon the gullible and uninformed. No
matter which business one is in, one must learn to be very careful lest one
loses all he has earned. The better informed you are the more difficult it will
be to fool you.
While our schools teach the kids the
three R’s – reading, ‘riting and ‘rifmetic, they are not fully prepared to step
into the world where one needs to have street smarts in order to navigate one’s
way through the many minefields that lay in our path. Since no one lives for
one thousand years, it’s important that we learn from other people’s
experiences and mistakes rather than having to try to learn from the school of
hard knocks. We must not only become book smart, but street smart as well, or
we may easily be left fleeced in a world full of scavengers and vultures.
I suggest that accomplished doctors, lawyers, store owners and all sorts of
business men be invited into our classrooms and teach our students from their
own life experiences. Let our students hear it directly from those that have
first hand experiences. There are plenty of parents among a school’s student
body with lots of on the job experience that can be extremely helpful in
teaching our youngsters the in and outs of the business world. There is no
better way for them to learn it, then to hear it first hand from those who have
gone through it themselves.
Being street wise can be far more
helpful than all the textbooks in the world. In our day and time we must learn
the ways of the world from those who know it first hand. We can’t afford
learning it on the go!
