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Posted By: Mel. White In Response To: Earning with E-Currency Trading? (Angela C.)
Thursday, 7 July 2005, at 6:56 a.m.
> liscense, credit card, phone bill or such. The companies I am referring to
> are like SFI, E-gold etc. SFI stated they accepted credit card payments
> through Paypal but then said I had to send in the above documented
> materials
> before I could fund my account via credit card.
There are a number of folks here who find this suspicious, and there's been a long-running discussion on whether these are Ponzi schemes or not. A safer option is to go to the Motley Fool (www.fool.com) and start reading up on money exchanges (and you'll have some sort of real world basis to compare them to.)
For what it's worth, everyone who gets into "High Yield" (HIYP/Hiyip) programs admits freely that they're almost always Ponzis and you have to get in early and get out early to make any money (you also have to be able to live with luring other people into the program, knowing the program will collapse and they'll lose all their money.)
Frankly, a BETTER choice, IMHO, is investing in stocks through DRIPs (check Motley Fool for this.) You can DRIP a fairly pricey stock (like Google) and watch your investment rise in a legitimate fashion. There's a lot of winners there, and your money's MUCH safer than in some of these other schemes. Of course, you don't get a "1000% return in 3 months" with stocks, but I bought SEB at 1100 in May, and it's now at 1700 (with DRIP brokerages, you can buy a part of a stock or a single share...)
If you're considering investing, avoid questionable products. You could be the last person in and lose all your money (unlike stocks, where you can set a "stop" limit and have the thing sell when it reaches that point ... so you never lose all your money.)
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