HOW DANCING STUDIO SCAMS ARE COMMITED
Dance studios don’t tend to allow students to come and go as they please, preferring to organise agreements for minimum periods instead.
Clients will be signed up for a certain amount of time, typically a year or more, during which will they be contractually obligated to continue paying fees.
Dance studios that are looking to earn as much as they can from their clients then find ways of using those contracts, including adding terms and conditions that compel their students to make purchases of training materials or equipment solely through them or an agent of their choice (who will undoubtedly be giving them a nice kickback).
Additionally, such contracts may also compel clients into paying additional fees too, such as a contribution towards the cost of the venue, or for extra training sessions.
Funnily enough, a lot of these ‘extras’ will either be unwanted or will go unused.
Why You Should Beware Of Dance Studio Scams
By Lee Munson
Feb 15
http://www.security-faqs.com/why-you-should-beware-of-dance-studio-scams.html
By Lee Munson
Feb 15
http://www.security-faqs.com/why-you-should-beware-of-dance-studio-scams.html
As I was growing up a major newspaper would warn the public about dance studio scams every ten years or so. I have not seen the warning for a long time. Unfortunately, it looks like the dating scam will take over.
Apr. 11, 2019
What It’s Like to Lose a Million Dollars to an Online Dating Scam
As told to Katie Heaney
https://www.thecut.com/2019/04/i-lost-a-million-dollars-in-an-online-dating-scam.html
What It’s Like to Lose a Million Dollars to an Online Dating Scam
As told to Katie Heaney
https://www.thecut.com/2019/04/i-lost-a-million-dollars-in-an-online-dating-scam.html
At least dance studios taught the suckers how to dance while they were being ripped off. The dating scam artists do not teach the suckers anything except how to write larger checks.
Guys like Ivar Kreuger and Bernie Made-off will always improve on the master:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponzi_scheme
Charity hustlers are much worse than the other crooks who promise to deliver something or other. Every other scam pales besides charity scams. This is my all-time favorite. One guy supposedly collected $200 in 30 minutes for the widow of the Unknown Soldier.
TOMB OF THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER
HERE RESTS IN
HONORED GLORY
AN AMERICAN
SOLDIER
KNOWN BUT TO GOD AND CHARITY HUSTLERS
Finally, Lee Munson’s article included a few specialty scams.
Beware Of 2nd Mortgage Scams Even if they don't use it themselves, for committing fraud or identity theft, they can still make a fair amount of money from selling the information to other scammers who...
Beware Of The Undelivered Parcel Scam Instead it is a premium rate number, belonging to a scammer in Belize, that will add £15 to your phone bill!...
Dancing Skeletons And Other Things That Go Bump At Halloween Special occasions and notable dates tend to bring malware-writing ghouls and goblins out of their closets and Halloween is no exception....
Beware Of The IRS Email Scam The basic function of the email is to try and trick the recipient into believing that they are due a refund of tax....
NOTE: The telephone is essential to more and more scams. You might say that telephone company executives knowingly collaborate with crooks in foreign countries since neither one will ever go to jail
QUESTION: Do future generations learn anything when a crook is caught? ANSWER: Whether or not P.T. Barnum said it:
THERE’S A SUCKER BORN EVERY MINUTE