One type of mortgage rescue scam involves a predatory “real estate investor” stealing the equity a victim has built up in their home. Typically, the scammer will tell the victim they want to help save the home from foreclosure. This “real estate investor” will tell the victim he or she will buy the house personally, or will arrange to have…
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Top 5 Tips To Prevent Credit Card Fraud
If you are worried about credit card fraud you are well on your way to protecting yourself from being a victim. The truth is anyone can easily be a victim of fraud because of the careless ways we handle our personal information. Here are the top 5 ways you can avoid becoming a fraud victim. Never give solicited personal information…
Forcible Rape Defense False Accusations In Relationship And Date Rape Cases
Forcible rape and attempted forcible rape between people who know each other, either casually or well, make up a sizeable percentage of the false accusations in the criminal justice system. The cry of rape or abuse is a familiar cry when a relationship goes sour or when a woman has second thoughts after a night of sex or near intimacy.…
The Psychology Of Torture
There is one place in which one’s privacy, intimacy, integrity and inviolability are guaranteed – one’s body, a unique temple and a familiar territory of sensa and personal history. The torturer invades, defiles and desecrates this shrine. He does so publicly, deliberately, repeatedly and, often, sadistically and sexually, with undisguised pleasure. Hence the all-pervasive, long-lasting, and, frequently, irreversible effects and…
Marines On Trial For Raping Filipino Woman
It happened back in November in the Philippines. A woman, called by the pseudonym “Nicole,” was allegedly raped by four U.S. Marines. The trial for this incident is now six weeks long, and Nicole has taken the stand. The defendants are Lance Cpl. Daniel Smith, Lance Cpl. Dominic Duplantis, Lance Cpl. Keith Silkwood and Staff Sgt. Chad Carpentier. It is…
Are You Being Robbed Without Even Knowing It
“Would you let someone walk into your home, take whatever they wanted and leave as if nothing had happened?” No! Of course you wouldn’t. So why are you letting them do it to your website? WARNING: If you are using PayPal , Clickbank or a number of other payment processors for your digital downloads YOU ARE LOSING MONEY!!! Using a…
The Three Forms Of Closure
For her traumatic wounds to heal, the victim of abuse requires closure – one final interaction with her tormentor in which he, hopefully, acknowledges his misbehaviour and even tenders an apology. Fat chance. Few abusers – especially if they are narcissistic – are amenable to such weakling pleasantries. More often, the abused are left to wallow in a poisonous stew…
Criminal Injury Claim Are You Serious
Injuries due to criminal activities, can be one of the most complex and traumatic experiences that anyone can suffer. A criminal injury claim in these terrible incidents, can profoundly affect both the victim and the victim’s friends and family, leaving both emotional and physical scars that can last a lifetime. Few people understand the sensitive and complicated nature of criminal…
How Victims Are Affected By Abuse
Repeated abuse has long lasting pernicious and traumatic effects such as panic attacks, hypervigilance, sleep disturbances, flashbacks (intrusive memories), suicidal ideation, and psychosomatic symptoms. The victims experience shame, depression, anxiety, embarrassment, guilt, humiliation, abandonment, and an enhanced sense of vulnerability. In “Stalking – An Overview of the Problem” (Can J Psychiatry 1998;43:473-476), authors Karen M Abrams and Gail Erlick Robinson…
How To Cope With Bullies
Bullying is one form of harassment inflicted by an abuser of more physical and/or social power and dominance than the victim. Bullying is often done with clear intentions of harming the target through different means. These means may include: verbal harassment, physical assault, emotional blackmail, or other more subtle methods of coercion such as manipulation. Bullies are often characterized as…