See: Phishing Scam.
Remember all those letters/emails you used to get from the Prince of Nigeria and his loving Royal Family? They begged you for $5k to unlock a few mil, of which you'd get half. A few old people fell for this ruse, but most laughed and then felt sorry that people would be so desperate and have such low self-esteem that they would try to do this for a living. Then they thought about how corrupt Nigeria must be for so much of its population to engage in this stuff. Then they went and had dinner.
Yeah, we Americans are short-term, annoyance-based thinkers.
Anyway, marketing fraud runs when you are lied to about what a product can or would or should do to you. Lots of companies exaggerate how great their products are (and no, Shmoop does not cure cancer). But outright fraud? Yeah. If you find it, call the FBI, or at least the Consumer Protection Agency, and put their butts in jail.
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Finance: What is Distribution?14 Views
finance a la shmoop. what is distribution? alright ,you've made this awesome movie
guaranteed to make audiences laugh and cry and vomit yep in the same scene too. [woman turns green]
sorry it's hard to do Steven Spielberg to do that but well anyway you know all
the things teenagers want when they go to the movies, aside from you know making
out in the back row just below the projection, that's where nobody can see.
so you knock on the door of AMC ,10th century then sci-fi or the sci-fi
channel then Fox then Hulu theater. you know that. one with a combo of arrogance
and ignorance and a whole lot of bravado you then show that in your film, and they [woman in top hat pitches film]
all agree it's wonderful. then they smile and they tell you to
leave and then no they don't validate parking.
you can't believe it. why wouldn't they want your movie? this makes no sense
whose fault it is you don't know but it's definitely not yours that your
movie didn't just make bank so you sheepishly ask why, they say why?
distribution. huh well Disney for example Disney has a stream of 40 big movies a
year ,and most are gently some are good. Disney has distribution. they have a team [Disney blockbusters pictured]
of salespeople who relentlessly give out Lakers tickets to the theater managers
and owners, and unlike you Disney has the muscle the threatened to hold back the
next Star Wars sequel if the theater manager doesn't book boss baby 4: the
bloodletting, for 12 weeks with minimum. money guarantees got it ?so Disney has
distribution and you don't. that's distribution .power. power to book films
into theaters so Disney's films get paid for made and seen by millions while
yours well they never leave the cutting room floor , ie your parents basement.
well maybe next life, go to law school. [girl smiles from parent's basement]
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A phishing scam is a con in which someone is contacted online in an attempt to procure money or personal information. We'd never do that. In fact,...