Stokes said that in one common ripoff, thieves are going after people who own timeshares they’re trying to dump.

Recently, he described this as "possibly the greatest organised ripoff perpetrated on the British people".

Most thrillingly, Peacock is doing its own ripoff of NFL RedZone, called Gold Zone, in which it’ll offer live whip-around coverage of “every event happening at a given time,” NBC says.

The CFA’s campaign to preserve item-level pricing and slow barcode adoption got national attention, and other consumer organizations began publishing pamphlets about barcodes with titles like “A New Supermarket Ripoff.”

Add to this the knowledge I discovered while researching my “Roofing Ripoff” book exposing the shingle industry.