Comments on: Exciting Money Making Opportunity? Horses …

By: Adrian

Adrian — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 20:22:26 +0000

@ myjourneytomillions – I hope it came across as MORE than a mere joke … even a mean one?!

I must admit, I expected to lose readers in the week between the post and the denouement, but: (a) it didn’t happen and, (b) I thought it was a fair price (I’m gambling again!) for the point that I was trying to make about being ever vigilant for scams, no matter the source … remember how many people trusted Madoff implicitly?

By: myjourneytomillions

myjourneytomillions — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 14:34:57 +0000

As I read the post, all I could think to myself was that AJC had jumped the shark (meaning your blog was going to start to rapidly decline in value)!

Glad it was a joke…albeit a mean one.

By: Adrian

Adrian — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 07:30:24 +0000

@ Rick – Interesting comments, and timely …

… we’re currently watching an Aussie mini-series called Underbelly which showcases the true story of 30-odd drug/mafia related murders over the last 10 years in Melbourne, of all places. One (almost) happened very near my own house in the nice, safe ‘burbs (but that’s another story).

The thing that struck me is the effort that these ‘crims’ put into the machinery, infrastructure and sales networks in order to illegally import and sell the hard stuff.

The problem is that if they get caught they go to prison; if they don’t get caught they might get shot by an irate supplier/partner/client/cop.

And, at the end of it all, there’s no exit plan – other than the ones described above – i.e. who can they possibly sell to? No nice, fat IPO’s here …

My point: if they put the same effort into a legitimate business they would be obscenely (but legally) rich! Go figure …

By: Rick Francis

Rick Francis — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 21:50:35 +0000

I suspect people fall for this kind of scam because they are desperate, but today they also have to be lazy too. As Adrian pointed out the internet really makes spotting scams easy- a minute with Google and you will know for sure.

As an aside I’ve heard a great way to find the true value of any investment system is to see how much it is going for used on eBay. If a dozen people are selling it for $1 with no bids that is a pretty good indicator!

The sad thing is I suspect that if the people running scams put the same amount of effort into promoting legitimate businesses they would make more money in the long run. After all it’s pretty hard to sell something that really is worthless- and it’s hard to get any repeat business. If you provide some real value with a good or service it can sell itself. Even a simple product like carbonated sugar water can be the basis of a 94.5 billion dollar company with great marketing- like the Coca-Cola Company.

-Rick Francis

By: Adrian

Adrian — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:11:27 +0000

@ Scott – More ‘scam buster’ than scammer … in much the same way that I risked losing a few readers in trying to make a point about spotting scams (c’mon guys, how does ANYBODY fall for this type of shi …?!) except that he has turned it into a profession.

@ Matt – I didn’t notice! So does that mean that you were scamming us and you really want to subscribe? V. funny!

By: Josh

Josh — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:49:14 +0000

I was hoping this was fake, I was beginning to wonder where you were going with this.

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:50:02 +0000

Not sure if anyone noticed or cares for that matter, but I copied and pasted my reply from the same web site you used for most of your comments. I thought it would be funny, well it was to me at least.

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 13:42:32 +0000

That was the first thing I noticed about this guy when I looked him up on YouTube. He had a hundred other videos about all of his different mind control techniques. I thought this guy had to be a total scammer.