Ripped off! : a servicemember's guide to common scams, frauds, and bad deals / Michael S. Archer.
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Chicago, Illinois :
American Bar Association,
[2014]
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Table of Contents:
- Why our troops get ripped off
- The payday loan : borrowing money at 390 percent interest
- High-interest personal loans
- Buying clubs, buying headaches
- Life insurance sales : "have I got an investment for you..."
- Landlord/tenant issues
- Buying and financing overpriced computers and electronics
- Cell-phone service suspension
- Internet, telephone, and mail scams
- Identity theft
- Rent to own or rent to owe?
- Taxed to the max : refund-anticipation loans
- Education rip-offs : "dollar signs in uniform"
- Debt-collection abuses
- Auto purchase and finance
- Auto-repair fraud
- Auto repossession : the repo man cometh
- Car title loans
- Special rules pertaining to the sale and repair of motor vehicles : buyers' guides and lemon laws
- Fight back!