From the article:
Mormon folks in Utah have been fleeced of $1.4 billion over the past few years in affinity fraud schemes designed to exploit their connection to the LDS community and culture...
A whopping $1.4 billion!!!
From the article: ...according to news reports
One of those likely sources is perhaps a Sept. 12, 2010 article in the Las Vegas Review-Journal by John L. Smith: "JOHN L. SMITH: Thieves in the temple: How 'affinity fraud' hurts LDS church members"
Smith's article can't be excerpted on FR for copyright reasons. I suggest you go to the LVRJ site and read it. It's heartbreaking at the end.
To: Colofornian
2 posted on
09/14/2010 8:24:18 AM PDT by
ejonesie22
(8/30/10, the day Truth won.)
To: Colofornian
3 posted on
09/14/2010 8:30:34 AM PDT by
svcw
(Everyday the enemy tries to offer you an apple, when God has already given us an orchard.)
To: Colofornian
Thank you for posting this. With this affinity fraud being an ongoing problem, it is helpful for it to be continuously exposed.
6 posted on
09/14/2010 8:42:08 AM PDT by
Pan_Yans Wife
(Utopia is being foisted on Americans for their own good.-- J. Robert Smith)
To: Colofornian
Greed will get ya every time...
To: Colofornian
That group has been afflicted by fraud since the 1820’s.
10 posted on
09/14/2010 10:51:59 AM PDT by
TexasRepublic
(Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
To: Colofornian
FWIW.....I've been screwed larger and harder by so called Christians than any other folk. To the tune of thousands of bucks.
Maybe I was young and dumb.
Maybe...I just trusted them more...because I went to church with them, and felt like it was the Christian thing to do...to help your fellow "Christians".
Maybe this, maybe that....I dunno. I've evolved in my thinking...and my discernment. I continue to give, and help...but I pick and choose better I guess.
My point I guess...is mormon's aren't the lone ranger's in this type of behavior.
11 posted on
09/14/2010 11:06:44 AM PDT by
Osage Orange
(Kill them all...let God sort them out.)
To: Colofornian
Mormons Now Losing Billions to Affinity Fraud AGAIN?!?!?
Don't they EVER learn?
17 posted on
09/14/2010 3:17:58 PM PDT by
Elsie
( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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