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Hurricane Katrina Fraud: Do You Pass The Test?

Many cases have resulted in charges and convictions. Three recent examples: On January 30, a Florida con artist who claimed he was a pilot and had delivered relief supplies to hurricane victims pled guilty a Hurricane Katrina Internet scam. On January 27, two federal officials were arrested for taking $20,000 in bribes from a contractor to inflate meal service count numbers at a relief base camp in New Orleans. On January 26, six Portland, Oregon, residents were indicted for passing themselves off as Katrina victims to get government relief funds in a case worked by the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, the Department of Homeland Security, and the FBI.

Could Katrina fraud happen to you? If you have any doubts about how easy it is to be scammed, we encourage you to visit the Growth Venture Ltd. website.You might be surprised by what you find.

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	Did You Know?
	Res Ipsa Loquitur - Literally, "a thing that speaks for itself." In tort law, the doctrine which holds a defendant guilty of negligence without an actual showing that he or she was negligent. Its use is limited in theory to cases in which the cause of the plaintiff's injury was entirely under the control of the defendant, and the injury presumably could have been caused only by negligence.