When Biden was still in the running, a lighthearted song The White House Dog Race compared the leadership styles of Biden and Trump based on different personality types, using a new personality typing system I developed in the spirit of traditional systems, such as Myers-Briggs, Color Profiling, and DISC The Dog Type Personality System described in What Type of Dog Are You? published by Waterside Productions and featured in a series of workshops with groups of business and professional people. The system is based on four different dog types which have different leadership styles. Think of Biden as a Golden Retriever, supportive-helper type of leader, while Trump is like a German Shepherd, the dominant-aggressive type. Now that Harris has entered the race, she is a German Shepherd type,...

Suppose you are a new filmmaker, and you have just found a distributor and want to promote your film or series? What if you are the author of a new independently published book? What do you do if you must do all or most of the promotion, which is common without big names, a major production company, and a big budget. Here’s a formula I discovered based on promoting two of my films that were recently released by Gravitas Ventures. You can use it for promoting a book, too. One of the films I promoted is Conned: A True Story, based on the book The Big Con published by American Leadership Books, about how I discovered a book-to-film scam after a book publishing company hired me as ghostwriter and invented an executive producer for a real company. They used this subterfuge of a $100,000 offer...

Facebook and other social media account holders have another thing to worry about. Their Facebook groups and their account can be stolen, and then it can turn up for sale on the black market.  And the owners of accounts on Instagram, X (formerly Twitter), TikTok, and other social media platforms can lose their groups, too.  It’s totally illegal, but these groups are selling for hundreds and sometimes thousands of dollars, depending upon how many group members there are.  Then the new owners can monetize these groups by marketing, advertising, and promoting products and services to the newly acquired members.  Or worse – they can seek to gain emails and personal information from the members, so they can scam them for money or access their computers. That’s what well-known author Gini...

Anyone who’s already been a scam victim can become a target of being scammed again by the worst of the worst – the refund and recovery scammers. They seek out scam victims who had already lost money or a social media account with the false hope that they can help them get back their money or account.  But don’t believe it. Not only won’t they get back what you lost, but they’ll extract even more money from you. Their strategy is to pose as “experts” or “saviors” who can recover lost money or hacked accounts, and they target the vulnerable who have already been scammed, leading them to experience more financial loss, and commonly, they gain personal information they can use like a weapon against the victim. One way they extract money is to ask you to pay them a retainer with the promise...

Normally, scammers who steal Facebook groups and other social media accounts use them to get money and personal information from the members of the group or they sell the groups on the Internet black market.  Then, the buyer of the group goes after the money and personal information. But in a crazy twist of fate, Gini Graham Scott, the author of a half-dozen books and two films on scams, ended up becoming an administrator of her stolen group on scams after a random group member was made an administrator by the scammer.  Then, the two of them kicked out the scammer, along with over 200 scammers who joined the scam site to promote recovery and refund scams.  Though Gini had originally started the site to advise others on how to avoid different kinds of scams, it soon became taken over by...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Scams are becoming ever more common and sophisticated, so they can even scam the scam experts who carefully seek to avoid them. That’s what happened to writer-film producer Gini Graham Scott who wrote three books and produced two documentaries about different types of scams and how to avoid them. The books are: - The Big Con about a book-to-film scam she discovered as a ghostwriter.  - I Was Scammed, about several dozen scams to avoid;  - Scam Story, about a scammer who tried to scam her by claiming to be a PayPal rep but she outwitted him. These books were turned into two just released films by Gravitas Ventures: “Conned: A True Story” and “Con Artists Unveiled.”  Then, she became a victim of two more new scams affecting millions of victims each year and wrote...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Scams often leave victims devastated emotionally and financially, but an award-winning filmmaker and book author Gini Graham Scott turned her experience of being scammed not once but three times into films and books about scams that help others know about and protect themselves from being scammed or help them heal. In her first scam experience, one of her ghostwriting clients was a publisher with clients who wanted to turn their films into books. So she wrote the kind of materials an author would need to interest a producer – a logline/synopsis, show bible for a series, script, and sometimes a treatment or sizzle reel. She thought it was totally legit. But th e catch was that the publisher used the lure of a “deal” from an executive producer at a major studio to get...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE San Ramon and Danville, California – In a world filled with intrigue and deception, Gini Graham Scott, Ph.D., a prolific author, and award-winning filmmaker, has unveiled two compelling documentaries that shine a light on the world of scams and con artists. “Conned: A True Story" and "Con Artists Unveiled" are captivating films based on Gini Graham Scott's own books, The Big Con and I Was Scammed respectively, which provide the shocking story of a book-to-film scam that left countless victims and an eye-opening exploration of various scams.   Conned: A True Story is available to rent or buy at https://www.amazon.com/Conned-True-Story-Robert-Newman/dp/B0CH9X62XQ. It tells the true stories of multiple scams. Bank accounts were wiped out, lives were all but...