Schemes

What aggravates me, as a poor person, is all of these "get-rich-quick" schemes. They claim that you will make "$200 per hour" or something like that and personally, I think there should be laws in place against them! They charge a hefty start-up fee and that is how they really make their money. MLM schemes, stuffing envelopes, selling an expensive product, you name it. They claim it is so "easy" and I believe there is a dark place reserved for them somewhere because it's the desperate poor people who fall into the trap. The sad thing about it is that, even though I know they are all schemes, every time I see one, I'll say to myself, "If only I had the $49.99 to buy that." It's not because I'm dumb. It's because I'm desperate. I feel so sorry for those who HAVE had that start-up fee in their pocket and DID fall into the trap. I have fallen for two in my lifetime. They were listed in some "Money From Home" magazine and they offered "make money testing free electronics" and "make money selling concert tickets on Ebay". I bought both of them at different times. Yes, what they said sounded good, but you had to already have quite a bit of money to pay for the tickets and when I looked on Ebay to see how others were doing by posting these tickets, they had been relisted several times. The testing of electronics was quite complicated and I didn't have a printer for my computer. You were to write to the companies asking for free samples and then you were to offer to write reviews on the products. Then you could either keep or resell the products.

Another type of scheme that I want to point out is the one where you find an ad in the paper and they tell you that you are hired. Then they send you a check to "buy supplies with" and you send it to them, unaware that it is a scam. I almost fell into this one. They sent the check and I received it on Christmas Eve. I thought I was saved! I ran around trying to cash it and finally, someone called the numbers to have it verified and it turned out to be a fake check. This ruined Christmas for me and my family. These people advertised in our LOCAL paper! For some reason, they get away with it. I STILL see this same ad in the paper, two years later, and that was after I reported it to the newspaper. They obviously don't care as long as the scammers pay for the ads. Again, there is a dark place reserved for them.

I don't know why people like this get away with these schemes but they do.