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False Pretenses (TV 2004)

TV Movie  -  Thriller | Drama  -  25 October 2004 (USA)
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Randal 'Randy' Ackers looses his family savings and the company's reserve funds in an 'easy profit scheme' and commits suicide. His widow Dianne hopes to build a new life in California but ... See full summary »

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Dianne / Dee Dee
Stewart Bick ...
Michael
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Cerise
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Nando
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Chasen Boggs (as Francis Xavier McCarthy)
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Randal Ackers
David Gow ...
Norm
Jennifer Morehouse ...
Paige Segal (as Jennifer Moorehouse)
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Fred The Manager (as Brian Wright)
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Laura
Andrew Johnston ...
Detective Wallace
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Vault Clerk
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Nabil
Brian Wrench ...
Rand's Laywer
Liz MacRae ...
Art Gallery Owner
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Randal 'Randy' Ackers looses his family savings and the company's reserve funds in an 'easy profit scheme' and commits suicide. His widow Dianne hopes to build a new life in California but gets stuck with car trouble in Texas. To pay for the repairs, she becomes waitress Dee Dee in a diner. There the swindler, who apparently doesn't recognize Diane, recruits 'Dee Dee' as investment sales pitch assistant. Friendly local sheriff Nando, who has a crush on her, promises to help catch the trickster under his new name, unofficially as he has no cause for legal action. But more is not what is seems. Written by KGF Vissers

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Learn about white collar crime
12 October 2008 | by See all my reviews

This movie should be shown to people on how scams work particularly the one that the movie is referring to. The movie does an excellent job of how the money is move from one phrase of the operation to another phrase in a well-thought, logical fashion that everyone can follow until it comes to the final end where the victims are finally jig out of their money.

The sad thing about this movie is where the local police told the ex-wife that they were not going to do a thing about it because it did not occurred in their area and they have too much crime in their own area to devote the manpower and resources. I guarantee you if someone pull a stunt like that on a law enforcement agency, the cops would spare no effort, time, and resources to bring the criminal to justice because cops do not like being made fools. Sometimes, it seems that the police need to become victims in order to get their butts moving because then they know what it is like to be a victim of white collar crime.


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