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FIB - Scams 101 - Ye Olde Archives
Posted By: Jim
Saturday, 2 April 2005, at 4:39 a.m.
TonyRush,
We still have no idea of what this "SECRET" product is, that the 'affiliate' is suppose to sell that will make them $5000 in one month (or $250,000/year) as you claim.
According to Anti-Scam information sources/organizations/sites (including the FTC), this type of overnight-success/get-rich-quick/make-money-fast ad is a Red-Flag. In other words, if it sounds too good to be true...
Another Red-Flag:
Ref: http://friendsinbusiness.com/board1/index.cgi?read=93378
> Our business is direct sales. When someone purchases our product this
> month, they will not purchase it again next month.
One time sales - of course, they're one time sales, as once someone has paid for the 'secret' which may be borderline on ethics or legalities, you have to find another 'target' prospect, because in most cases there was no real product in the first place, much less a possibility for a follow-up sale of other products.
An example of this:
Place an ad... "Make $5000/month. Contact "xxxx" for Details for the Secrets to this Explosive New Business."
What the consumer recieves after parting with their money:
A few pages of "instructions" telling them to place an ad in the classifieds just like the one they responded to.
Yes, I know... I'm the stupid one that is letting a great opportunity pass me by, as this Secret Offer to make me rich overnight is different and completely legit. And maybe it is, but if it's really so great, why is it a secret? If you told people up-front what is actually is, then there would be a huge response and you would have so many orders that you would have to hire a full time staff to process the orders and be so rich, even Bill Gates would be envious. If it's so GREAT, it probably wouldn't be secret for very long, due to human nature, the secret would soon slip out and it would be all over the media and EVERYBODY would be doing it... or at the very least, you'd be getting richer because EVERBODY would be wanting it.
Yes... I was born at night... but not last night. I've still got a few boxes of stuff in the closet from years ago, when I started looking into a lot of these types of "offers/scams" back in the 80's before the WorldWideWeb was born. I was going to write a book on these, until I found someone else had just released one... so I bought their book instead. However, aside from this forum, there are a lot of good sites on the Web that provide great information on "How Not to get Scammed" and the Red-Flags to watch out for. While you may have the greatest product in the world, you're ad falls into those categories to 'watch out for'.
Come on Tony... We're all "FriendsInBusiness" here. Tell us what this Secret Product is and WHY we have to Qualify. And if we Qualify, we'd all probably become affiliates for you, so we can ALL get rich together.
Ref: http://friendsinbusiness.com/board1/index.cgi?read=93378
> Our business is direct sales. When someone purchases our product this
> month, they will not purchase it again next month.
> Further, once qualified, the only person making any money on a product is
> the person who sold it. The money is paid directly to the person who's
> doing the work....not to a faceless upline who had no effort or investment
> in creating the product movement.
> In our business, the customer pays a retail price
> to the ASSOCIATE who then forwards the wholesale
> cost to the company. When you make a sale today,
> you get paid today.
> Tony Rush
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