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Hi Everyone :) I got this in my e-mail today... (the thing attatched to this post)
It is like a system for earning absolutely loads of money ($millions in a few months) for just the cost of applying to the thing - $25. Has anyone ever signed on to a system like this and do they really work?
I'd like to know as they sound too good to be true :p
Typically anything that sounds to good to be true usually is. The only people making money on this scheme are the ones collecting your $25.00
Just my opinion...
TC
Send me $25 and I will tell you the secret to making lots of money on the internet.
Ok, I will tell you the secret without the $25, but you gotta make sure not to tell anyone else.... All you have to do is convince people to send you $25 to learn the secret to making money on the internet. Lots of shmucks will do it, and you will be loaded...
(cough) Scam (cough)
Those types of scam are old news. I wouldn't even give it a second thought.
ccKid ::coffee::
That was the lamest scam ever. nice try
yeah, i thought so too, i wasn't going to do it, just seems they must make some money from it otherwise they wouldn't bother. Could it be breaking the law to collect money, and then not give anything back, or I suppose they might just be sending people a crappy guide on how to become an affiliate or something.
Does not really sound feasible.
i didn't know chain letters were still around. Actually, they are illegal to my understanding because all it is is a pyramid scheme.
I've gotten a few of those scam emails as well. I usally just block the addresses so they don't keep coming.
Erm, doing a little basic math would help prove to yourself that it's a scam. If a bunch of people put 25 dollars into a pot, the most they could get out (if they were sharing evenly) is 25 dollars. Anything higher and it's either being sustained by growth alone (people sending in their 25 before getting anything back) or some people are getting more than others.
It doesn't mater though, since this is a more direct scam I think that's just sending money to some dude's 5 aliases.
These ones are SO old, and just reading it makes me mad at whomever wrote it, with blatant lies everywhere and obvious messages to try to keep you from doing anything...
The problem with these schemes, is that it all depends on whether YOU can convice other people to give you money and then they ask other people...
Nobody gets anything out of it, it's just moving money toward the first people to 'sign up'. Getting any money yourself depends on getting suckers to send you money. Which is what the originator is doing...
It's really so transparent, I don't know why so many people seem to fall for them. <sigh>
But yes, these ARE illegal. They're flat-out lying.
By the end of the second sentence I could tell it was a scam, wouldn't even have wasted my time reading that crap.
Unfortunately too many fall for these schemes that is why they can stay around.
The get rich quick mentality. It hurts so many people.
Never going to stop them regardless of them being illegal. Too many gulllible people around.
Send me $25 and I'll teach you everything you need to know to cut all of your bills in half instantly! Complete kit included!! LOL!!!
This is just one of those old pyramid schemes and, as such, is actually illegal... you send them $25 (used to be $5) and then they send you a reply that "teaches" you how to send out an email and ask people to send YOU $25, etc, etc, etc...
But, a little math will show you that it doesn't take very long before this post spans the world and, well... no one can really make money off of it anymore.
You are wrong .... it realy works.. Oh I am absolutly filthy rich.. and a bad week sees no less than $5000 rolling into my accounts....... oh man oh man...
Ahhh sorry I'll take my hand off it.... sorry ..now for the truth..
Yes it is a pyramid scheme and yes in many countries it is illegal. In some it operates in the grey area of the law.. That is you are buying a product (a photocopied set of sheets, or on the internet it may be a glamourous PDF file now), then when it is your turn to make money you are now selling the same product.. Your goal is not to get to the top of a list, but to be on the top of many many many lists.
Many of the people who play in these scamms don't realise that they are scams, those who do know and stay, make the money.. The other area are the internet Gold Gamers.. with schemes offering returns between 20% and 200% a week on your investment.. tes even hundreds of thousands of dollars dissappear every week over the internet in these schemes..
You find that there are a core group who instigate each scam , these work as a team to grow the "Organisation", then when the money is right.. the whole lot folds... only to start up a couple of months later with a new name .. but the same old faces.
I had a friend introduce me to these scams.. he gave up.. After nearly losing his house.. Me.. well I lost some AU$5000.. and some good friends.. I learn't about the maths.. and it looks good in some of these scams.. but they don't tell you abot the bubble effect.. it does burst!!
Oh BTW.. I have a fellew who is selling shares in a hi traffic bridge in Sydney.. ...oh B*ll Sh*t
Cheers
HEH! i can't belive some peeps actually falls for that lame crap, i hope this question answers your question:
Why on earth would someone give you a million dollars, just becouse you gave them 25$????
no one in this world is trying to make other people richer than themselves, unless they profit from it of course, heh.
face it! if i were you, i would delete all the mails saying "WIN MILLIONS OF CASH HERE!" or other lame **** like that. that`s what i do.
and hey, it works for me!
(oh, have you ever heard about any1 who got a mill just becouse he answered a mail?)
ReZpawner
I'm going to e-mail them back and try to get them to prove to me that it works, I'm gonna keep emailing them asking them questions about it, until *hopefully* they finally give in and reveal to me that it is a scam... counld be fun... P
heh, i would call that a waste of time, but, heh, if you dont have anything better to do, sure, why not. =]
i wouldnt expect to get any mails back though.
bah, enough about e-mails, does any1 have any pr0n?
The other "big" one recently is the scam where some guy in Africa mails you to say that they need an American to get their millions of dollars out of a bank in the US and, for doing so, will give you a tidy sum. The ultimate goal turns out to eventually lead you to their country where you have no priviledges (or resources) and get all of your money out of you... a few have even ended up dead over it.
That's a good one :) No, your right I never did get an e-mail back from them, though got one from "postmaster" telling me that my message could not be delivered to, perhaps they are not using a proper email address, an anonymous spammer or something.
pranKster
And don't forget the "I am a soldier in Afghanistan who needs to get drug money out of the country... but in order to do that, you need to give me a bit of money first, before you get your cut of the millions...", a new twist to the african-bank-account one.