The purpose of this Blog is to highlight fraudulent schemes that are happening here in Utah, and provide people with tools and information to protect themselves from it. This Blog is maintained by Mark W. Pugsley.  Every day I get calls from people here in Utah who have lost significant sums of money — in many cases their entire life savings — after investing with friends, ward members and even family members.  This is often described as affinity fraud, and unfortunately it happens all the time here in Utah.

Utahns and members of the LDS Church in particular tend to be very trusting, especially of people who attend their same ward or stake.  These relationships of trust are a great thing under most circumstances, but when it comes to evaluating an investment, church relationships and even family relationships should not be taken into consideration.

We hope that you will not have to hire us, but if you found this website because you have suffered large financial losses through private investments, loans or other types of money-making schemes we may be able to help.  In many cases even if the person who solicited your investment may be in jail or broke, claims can be brought against third parties who were involved in your investment to recover some or all of your money.  If you suffered losses of $100,000 or more please call us, we take cases on an hourly or on a contingency fee basis.

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