US Federal Reserve anti-scam flick
p2pnet news view | Movies:- America’s Federal Reserve Board has gone into the movie business.
It’s producing a 30-second public-service announcement to, “run amid the movie ads preceding the trailers in theaters in seven states beginning April 10,” says IMDb, going on:
“The Fed’s ad warns against scams by individuals offering — for a fee — to help homeowners who have received foreclosure notices.
The Fed Flick will be seen in Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada and Ohio, it says.
Does that mean states have more scammers and elsewhere? Nope. They have the largest number of foreclosures, says the story.
“As the U.S. government pours hundreds of billions of dollars into housing rescues, state and federal agencies have struggled to stop predators from targeting homeowners,” says the Wall Street Journal, from whence came to pic on the right, going on:
“Complaints have poured in to state attorneys general from homeowners in dire straits with their mortgages who are paying thousands of dollars to people who promise to arrange government aid to keep their homes.
“Watch an ad from the Federal Reserve’s new campaign, set to run in movie theaters in early April, that warns consumers about foreclosure scams. Courtesy the Federal Reserve.
“The Fed’s ads come against a flurry of infomercials, billboards and door-to-door marketing from firms trying to attract customers who are confused by their options. ‘They’re everywhere — prime time, late night, radio, English, Spanish,’ said Patricia Garcia Duarte, president of the nonprofit Neighborhood Housing Services of Phoenix. ‘They’re very slick and they really know how to market to vulnerable people’.”
IMDb – The Fed To Advertise In Movie Theaters,March 30, 2009Wall Street Journal – Fed Features: Ads at Movies Warn Against Scams, March 26, 2009
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March 31st, 2009 at 1:29 pm
“The Fed” is also worried about the increasing public awareness of the fact that the Federal Reserve’s existence is actually what’s wrong with everything. The US should never have stopped printing their own money in the first place.
April 1st, 2009 at 6:47 am
We all know the Federal Reserve itself is a scam. A private corporation given the power to print money at will.
April 2nd, 2009 at 12:50 am
“We all know the Federal Reserve itself is a scam.”
I wish I could say it was common knowledge.
But, sadly, there appears to be a great multitude that think the Fed is a department of the American Government.