Bogus Franchise And Business Opportunities

business opportunities
A business opportunity (or bizopp) involves the sale or lease of any product, service, equipment, etc. that will enable the purchaser-licensee to begin a business.
(Business Opportunity) The sale of a business (may or may not include the sale of real estate). Some states require a real estate license for these sales even when real estate is not involved.
Schemes that typically involve extravagant and unfounded earnings claims and are actually fraudulent business ventures.

franchise
A business or service given such authorization to operate
An authorization given by a league to own a sports team
An authorization granted by a government or company to an individual or group enabling them to carry out specified commercial activities, e.g., providing a broadcasting service or acting as an agent for a company's products
an authorization to sell a company's goods or services in a particular place
grant a franchise to
a statutory right or privilege granted to a person or group by a government (especially the rights of citizenship and the right to vote)

bogus
Counterfeit or fake; not genuine; Undesirable or harmful; Incorrect, useless, or broken; Of a totally fictitious issue printed for collectors, often issued on behalf of a non-existent territory or country (not to be confused with forgery, which is an illegitimate copy of a genuine stamp); Based
Not genuine or true; fake
Bogus is a 1996 American fantasy film directed by Norman Jewison, written by Alvin Sargent, and starring Whoopi Goldberg, Gerard Depardieu, and Haley Joel Osment. It features magic tricks with magician Whit Haydn as consultant.
fraudulent; having a misleading appearance