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Video scam targets Latinos in Madison area

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At 45, he said he’s labored hard and wants to get ahead. So when the phone rang in October with an offer that promised a path to a possible new career, he thought it might be a good opportunity.

Instead, it turned out to be a drawn-out lesson in consumer rights.
A number of Latinos in the Madison area have spent months working with the Centro Hispano of Dane County and the Consumer Law Litigation Clinic at the University of Wisconsin-Madison trying to get back the money they put up for a series of videos that lawyers describe as a scam.