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Indian government accuses Amazon, Alibaba, eBay of facilitating illegal wildlife trade
20 July 16
The Indian government says it has found a number of international and national websites guilty of "selling" rare animals and their parts. Environment Minister Anil Madhav Dave shared a list with Parliament on Monday of 106 websites -- mostly comprised of shopping portals -- that are either trading wildlife or are running smuggling-related advertisements, reports The Economic Times. These websites include Amazon, Sna ... Read More
CM warns people not to be allured by chit fund and non-banking deposit
28 June 16
The Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Mr. Virbhadra Singh warned the people to not to be allured by chit fund and non-banking deposits they could dupe people sometimes to invest or deposit large chunk of money in Chit Fund companies or other non-banking organizations and there were always chances of getting duped, Mr Singh warned. While presiding National Small Sa ... Read More
Pyramid schemes masquerade as direct sellers
17 November 15
Consumer commission investigates nine suspected pyramid schemes. There is a thin line, nowadays, between network marketing companies, or multi-level marketing companies, and pyramid schemes. Particularly where the former has a business model that involves attracting sales ... Read More
BTCC CEO Bobby Lee Warns Bitcoin Investors about MMM Ponzi Scheme
19 October 15
Certain organization such as MMM Global have been accepting bitcoin payments in what appears to be a rehashing of the pyramid scheme of the same name that was started back in the Soviet Union. Now, CEO Bobby Lee and the BTCC team issued a warning to its customers and potential bitcoin inves ... Read More
Doctor with a marketing bent invites trouble
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In a first-of-its-kind case, the Karnataka Medical Council (KMC), based on a complaint of medical negligence, has warned a doctor from a private hospital in the city against promoting drugs from a particular company to her patients, failing which her licence would be revoked. The KMC issued a whip against Dr Leela Bhagavan, obstetrician and gynaecologist, practicing at Cloudnine Ma ... Read More