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Month: December 2025

Cybercrime / Privacy

That huge fake NFL ticket scam? It fueled an online sports betting addiction. And it’s going to get worse

December 8, 2025 Bob Sullivan 0

There’s been several celebrated scandals recently involving sports betting in the U.S. — pro basketball and baseball players are accused of manipulating prop bets in small but important ways.  But I want to talk with you today about a much less famous, but perhaps more important, online betting scandal: addiction. [Keep reading]

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Why banana bread is the solution to the world’s fraud problem

December 1, 2025 Bob Sullivan 1

By any measure you can find, fraud is soaring in the U.S. and around the world.  I spent an hour on WHYY radio recently discussing the causes for this, but I can boil it down to one concept: big, uncaring companies have dehumanized customers and employees alike, creating a perfect [Keep reading]

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BOB SULLIVAN is a veteran journalist and the author of four books, including the 2008 New York Times Best-Seller, Gotcha Capitalism, and the 2010 New York Times Best Seller, Stop Getting Ripped Off! His latest, The Plateau Effect, was published in 2013, and as a paperback, called Getting Unstuck in 2014. He has won the Society of Professional Journalists prestigious Public Service award, a Peabody award, and The Consumer Federation of America Betty Furness award, and been given Consumer Action’s Consumer Excellence Award.

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