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FIB - Scams 101 - Ye Olde Archives
Posted By: MaaMaw In Response To: Re: Counterpoints (Jim)
Wednesday, 9 February 2005, at 11:47 a.m.
Maybe he'll be back soon and share his story. (Calling Dave!!)
I think the conclusion on this board was that nobody really knows. There is tons of stuff in Ye Olde Archives. Even some people who made good money with it were feeling a little (or a lot) shaky....
is it totally legit?
is it an elaborate scam?
is it a real investment?
is it just a money-shuffling game that will collapse on itself?
what the hell's a digot?
I decided to "play" anyway, so I made an investment ($35, hahahahaha!) -- but it turned out it was taking SO much of my time, I just couldn't afford it. (It's the learning that takes so much time; it's apparently very easy once you "get it.")
Had I put in $500, I would have pursued it -- if for no other reason than to get my $500 back out again -- but even if it is 100% on the up and up, I decided I can't afford that kind of time to make my piddly 35 bucks grow. I've got to get this internet stuff cranked up to a full-time wage or I'm dead meat, and I had to face the fact that I was allowing myself to drift again.
At this point, I have ZERO experience, but my personal feeling is that it probably is nothing but money shuffling that will eventually collapse, but in the meantime I think there probably is money to be made. The only way I could justify that to myself, however, was to swear I would *NEVER* bring anyone else into it.
I still had a problem with the idea that my money was possibly helping to finance the "game" and eventually lots of people were going to get the shaft -- but I kept telling myself it was their choice to try it, just like it was mine.
I dunno.
But I don't believe for one minute that lots of totally legitimate companies park on Vanautu (or Timbuktu) (or Krakatoa) to avoid the feds. That just doesn't make good sense to me.
End of useless dissertion.
Luv,
MaaMaw
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