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FIB - Scams 101 - Ye Olde Archives
Posted By: MaaMaw In Response To: OK. Out of the non-posting closet for a minute (Marye)
Tuesday, 2 August 2005, at 8:12 p.m.
No doubt they were inappropriate -- but when I was, in my own mind, 100% sure they were coming from the same person, I felt they were cooking their own turkey.
Each new person who posted (with the commentary I added to the top) was providing valuable *negative* information on the program or opportunity or whatever it is. I looked and found there was lots of positive stuff out there (provided by the "parent volunteers" on the "help desk"), and I decided that leaving up what I thought were *obvious* lies would help give potential victims (if indeed it was a scam) a kick in the pants so they would at least look further and not blindly believe all the happy-talk they read.
Remember, keeping FIBers comfy isn't my only mission here... the other one is to help keep people from being taken to the cleaners, and if my email is any indication, these little episodes do a bang-up job of that.
At this point -- based on the fact that I honestly believe I've been wrong about this IP thing -- (I SAID ABOUT THE IP THING AND WHETHER FOUR PEOPLE WERE ACTUALLY ONE, NOT WHETHER LINDA CHRISTAS IS ALL IT CLAIMS TO BE) -- I felt it would be better to:
== leave it up and admit my boo-boo, and
== balance out "Tim's" list of references with some links that will at least get people thinking before they make a decision.
It's not the first time I've been accused of being too tolerant -- no doubt it bugs a lot of people, sorry sorry sorry.
OF COURSE they were idiots for posting the way they did...
OF COURSE they had no business barging in here with their testimonials when the the last question was asked quite some time ago...
but that doesn't change the fact that I screwed up royally this time, no question about it, and I had to make that right before I did a clean sweep.
(For the record, the clean sweep jury is still out. Tim's message gave me a chance to point out an opposing viewpoint from someone who claims to have actual experience with them, and that's not a bad thing.)
Luv,
MaaMaw
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