by Dennis Beaver | auto repair, business, scam, travel
May 4, 2021 • By Dennis Beaver “I run a photography business with my wife and adult son, travelling around the country taking photos of school kids and teachers for yearbooks. We are considering the purchase of a large motor home where we can live and have a set up to...
by Dennis Beaver | business, medicine, scam
April 20, 2021 • By Dennis Beaver I am the CEO of a service of process and investigation firm in the South and would appreciate your guidance with a frustrating problem. “Process servers and investigators have sedentary jobs. We sit a lot, waiting for someone to...
by Dennis Beaver | consumer, scam
February 16, 2021 • By Dennis Beaver “Mr. Beaver, suffering from bad arthritis in my hands and nighttime leg cramps — charley horses — led me to inventing a battery-operated lime squeezer that I would like to market. “I was turned on to drinking tonic water, which...
by Dennis Beaver | consumer, psychology, scam
October 2, 2020 • By Dennis Beaver Have you ever wondered how some people become victims of scams, sending large amounts of money to crooks thousands of miles away? Today’s story explains the psychology of being scammed, and this topic was requested by “Rod,” who is...
by Dennis Beaver | scam, timeshare
April 5, 2019 • By Dennis Beaver Over the past several years this column has told you about the nightmares that timeshare owners lived through, both when first purchasing–often under physical and mental duress–and then when attempting to get themselves out...
by Dennis Beaver | fraud, scam
March 22, 2019 • By Dennis Beaver At one time or another we have all wondered if the person we are speaking with is on the level. Some of us are good at spotting fakes and cons, while others get scammed repeatedly–financially, emotionally, in life and love. Why?...
