Found a great exerpt: "As mentioned earlier, a
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"As mentioned earlier, a successful scam usually employs an aspect of a genuine technology, but falsely suggests that it is on the verge of commercialization. For example, John Rivera was convicted in the summer of 2011 for fraud. But he was not sued by the SEC for producing bio-oil through pyrolysis. Pyrolysis was not on trial. In fact this technology has been around for over a thousand years ‒ (it’s how we can produce charcoal and bio-oils for example). Rivera fraudulently claimed that “his” technology was commercially viable. It was not."
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