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Scam of The Weak
Posted 28th September 2010 at 05:37 PM by TheWealthSquad
I posted on my blog the Scam of the Week. I have since decided the title would have been more appropriate Scam of the Weak.
I provide a link to the full details at the bottom. Before we get there though I want you to think about marketing in general.
The scammers involved in this are very good at copywriting and hitting the emotional hot buttons that get people to respond. I am sure they get a few people who fall for this.
Several years ago I worked for a man who had a PhD in chemistry. A very smart man in a lot of respects. But he was also very tight with a dollar. He very nearly fell for a similar situation.
He was selling a double Dutch oven for around $400. The guy who bought it off Craigslist wanted to send him a check for $1,200. He just needed him to cash it, keep $600 ($400 for the oven and $200 for his trouble) and Western Union the other $600 to his partner who needed it.
The guy went nuts trying to figure out how to make it work. He spent several days working through different methods that would make it legal and safe for him to keep the money.
Eventually common sense and our advice finally got him to realize it was a bad idea to go ahead with him. Now this was a college educated man with years of experience in industry.
Can you imagine the number of people who are struggling to get by who will jump on something like that? People who will belief that it is possible to make lots of money without any real work. We probably would think they were silly wouldn't we?
Money without work? Success without putting any effort into it? Has to be a scam....
Yet every day we see people produce a new product guaranteeing push button traffic, instant money, fast cash with no effort, etc.
Affiliates push them on their list without ever looking at them. Hype filled sales letters with loud red letters, tons of endorsements, etc fill the web.
Yet we don't see that as the same kind of scam. Send me your money and my product will produce wheelbarrows full of money.
Think about if someone told you that in the "real" world. You would spot it for a scam pretty quick yet every day we see people falling for it online.
Think before you buy. Beware that Internet Marketing is simply BUSINESS using the internet as a medium. You still have to treat it like a business. Be consistent in your actions. Be focused on the results.
Learn, implement, test, rinse and repeat. You can get started for next to nothing but you have to build it with sweat equity or outsource it. Work has to be done to create wealth.
So why are you sitting here reading this? Get to creating!!
You can read the full details on Fort Global Solutions at my other site.
I provide a link to the full details at the bottom. Before we get there though I want you to think about marketing in general.
The scammers involved in this are very good at copywriting and hitting the emotional hot buttons that get people to respond. I am sure they get a few people who fall for this.
Several years ago I worked for a man who had a PhD in chemistry. A very smart man in a lot of respects. But he was also very tight with a dollar. He very nearly fell for a similar situation.
He was selling a double Dutch oven for around $400. The guy who bought it off Craigslist wanted to send him a check for $1,200. He just needed him to cash it, keep $600 ($400 for the oven and $200 for his trouble) and Western Union the other $600 to his partner who needed it.
The guy went nuts trying to figure out how to make it work. He spent several days working through different methods that would make it legal and safe for him to keep the money.
Eventually common sense and our advice finally got him to realize it was a bad idea to go ahead with him. Now this was a college educated man with years of experience in industry.
Can you imagine the number of people who are struggling to get by who will jump on something like that? People who will belief that it is possible to make lots of money without any real work. We probably would think they were silly wouldn't we?
Money without work? Success without putting any effort into it? Has to be a scam....
Yet every day we see people produce a new product guaranteeing push button traffic, instant money, fast cash with no effort, etc.
Affiliates push them on their list without ever looking at them. Hype filled sales letters with loud red letters, tons of endorsements, etc fill the web.
Yet we don't see that as the same kind of scam. Send me your money and my product will produce wheelbarrows full of money.
Think about if someone told you that in the "real" world. You would spot it for a scam pretty quick yet every day we see people falling for it online.
Think before you buy. Beware that Internet Marketing is simply BUSINESS using the internet as a medium. You still have to treat it like a business. Be consistent in your actions. Be focused on the results.
Learn, implement, test, rinse and repeat. You can get started for next to nothing but you have to build it with sweat equity or outsource it. Work has to be done to create wealth.
So why are you sitting here reading this? Get to creating!!
You can read the full details on Fort Global Solutions at my other site.
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