Jail and Prison Ministry - Facets Open for Volunteer Service

There are many facets open for volunteer service in prison ministry. A quick inventory of your interests, concerns, and spiritual gifts will help to determine how you can best serve.

Procedures Involved in Investigating a Death

In a nutshell, the reason that a person died is what defines the cause of death. Some possibilities that lead to a death are blunt force trauma, a gunshot wound, or a heart attack. These are pathologies or injuries that lead to death.

How Do Police Go About Getting a Search Warrant?

Whenever a crime occurs and evidence of that crime is believed to be within suspect's private residence, law enforcement officials must obtain a search warrant before entering the property. Otherwise, the homeowner is protected against any unreasonable search and seizure by the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

Guarding Yourself Against Check Fraud

There are new laws enacted to help combat check fraud. A good example of this is Check 21. Check 21 allows banks to provide consumers with electronic images of checks rather than mailing them back to you in your monthly bank account statement. This helps cut down on paper as well as curb some check fraud.

Medical Transcription Home Business Scam

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has indicted several medical billing promoters for falsely representing the income potential as well as failing to provide the pre-investment information as required by federal law. These home business hucksters target people with low incomes and little or no educational background and promise them huge incomes with little work to be done.

Turnkey Website Money Making Schemes

Secondly, you could get nothing at all for your investment, a website so shoddy that you wish you could have gotten nothing, or you might get a halfway decent site with little or no technical support. Our recommendation is to stay away from anything that promises instant, overnight success with money back guarantee.

Stuffing Envelopes Home Business Scam

How many companies could profit if they paid people $4 to stuff an envelope? Why would a company pay somebody to stuff envelopes when there are machines that can quickly stuff thousands of envelopes in a short period of time?

The Theft of Cables

This growing problem of cables being stolen does mean life and death for many innocent victims throughout Southern Africa.

MLM Plan on the Outside, Pyramid Scam on the Inside

Many of today's multi-level marketing programs involve some degree of deception. Either they promise unrealistic sales and incomes or they are nothing more than pyramid schemes disguised as MLM programs. A pyramid scheme is when you earn money by recruiting other people into the program with no real product or service sold.

Thirteen Ways Realtors Stay Ahead of the Perpetrators

These are safety tips for a realtor to use when showing a listing to a potential client. The realtor should be guarding his/her safety at all times.

College Campus Workplace Security-Office Security

If you work in a shared office with other people, it becomes a bit more difficult to protect your property than if your office is a single. This article contains advice when observing security measures in an office setting in the corporate world or on a college campus.

Real Estate Closing Fees Kickback Fraud

Federal investigators have compromised several crooked closing fees kickback rings. These are frauds that are simple for crooked real estate representatives to unleash on unsuspecting victims. If you are in the market for a house, there are some things you need to know in order to avoid becoming a victim of this type of crime.

Does The Polygraph Test Work?

Is the polygraph really accurate? Melvin Foster may not think so...