Is it me or are the rest of you getting these in your e-mail box?
How about this one?
Or this one?
This one has a good “end of the world” flair to it…
This one’s my personal favorite…
Of course there’s this one…
Aaaaaand this one I got in my mailbox only today…
I’ve checked the date when I really started getting these offers in my e-mail – I got the first one on the 20th, three days after President Obama signed the Stimulus Bill into law.
Well, it didn’t take them long, did it?
Now I probably got these e-mails because I was on someone else’s list and that list got sold. Now if any of these look inticing to you be warned, they are not as straighforward as you think. For one thing if you sign up with them you are not signing up for a free e-book or piece of software. You may get that product but you will also get something you might not have expected – a bill for your membership subscription with them.
Yeah, what you are really signing up for is a trial membership that lasts, on average, about 15 days. After that you will get billed for every month you use their “service”, but in all honesty their “service” is really not going to get you much of anything except a lower bank balance. There is a comprehensive list of these scams that can be found over at waffles at noon and it is well worth bookmarking that page because he tries to keep it updated fairly regularly.
But my favorite part about this is the addresses they give for you to write to if you have any problems. They give addresses like Vegas, Miami, Maryland – but the one that really gets me is the address from a place that lets you know it is absolutly a scam…
Belize.
BELIZE!!!!! AS IF A SOUTH AMERICAN ADDRESS WAS NOT GOING TO BE THE MOST OBVIOUS TIPOFF ON THE PLANET!!!!!!
Seriously now, do they really think that we are that stupid? Well they obviously fell that some people out there are that stupid or else they wouldn’t keep trying this crap.
Look clones, it doesn’t matter if you are unemployed, underemployed or underutilized, we are all targets of these snake-oil salesmen and we need to watch out for the stuff that just sounds too good to be true. In this economy, until we can get jobs and lose the “unperson” tag that we’ve been given, we need to be vigilant.
Remember, if it sounds to good to be true…..GOOGLE IT!!!!!
Well, I have been getting them and a lot more junk in my email lately. One of my accounts I skim over and hit the delete. It is someone trying to get my information on the stimulus, or spam and the like, plus someone telling me I need to start my home business (for a fee, of course) and then there are people telling me I have an in heritance coming- from places like Nigeria and Africa (places I have never been and have no relatives in that I know of). I can get free samples if I just enter my home adrress and phone number and of course, take a asmall survey to confirm this. Here is another one, take surveys and get paid…Not! These people would jump on a dead body if it meant getting their ads out. How sad it is that people actually send out junk, spam and porn to innocent people who fall for that! And they get paid to do it! Give me an honest job, one that doesn’t force the puplic to endure reading garbage all day and force one to drink. Pay me and I will tell you how to get rid of it-It involves the delete button…But please pay me! I could use the money!Seriously!
Exactly. I get so many of these now that they just automatically get deleted.
In my case I also get a lot of e-mail from the Internet Gurus out there wanting to sell me the next best thing that will make me a $1million within a month. Yeah – right. Sorry but I have bought a lot of those programs before and they usually involve shelling out even more money through them to get your program going. No thanks.
The only program I’ve found that was worth anything was “Blogging to the Bank” which was how I got this place started. I knew I wanted to do something in the world of Blogging but I just didn’t know how to start. I found this program and it goes step-by-step on how to get your own blog started and how you could make money with it. Haven’t made any money yet, but traffic first and whatever sales may come will come.
There are just so many scams out there that are not worth anybody’s time it’s ridiculous.