lol. I was ALMOST fooled into Vector Marketing's program. AKA steak-knife selling. A quick G search was enough for me to bail out of that tramcar to hell.
Too bad Google wasn't around for me when I got out of high school. The internet was just born! c/o 1993
I wish I registered all the 3 letter dotcoms as well as business.com and loans.com cars.com. All I was focused on was the oJ trial and jackson trial.
WHo do you think falls for those invesmtent schemes? PHDs and MBA folks. Never too smart to get conned.
Oh you'd be surprised. People with Doctorates do odd things. I saw a perfect example of it in public today on the vBulletin forums. :/
Is that so? Is there any studies that prove this? I would like to see the reports/research on this. Why would PHD's be easily scammed? Is it greed that make them easy victims? I would think they would be more suspicious of scams. Not knocking clickbank or any e-book...but I have never bought a ebook and only go to clickbank to grab some affiliates...because I know that people really do purchase these things. If I want to learn how to earn money...I don't turn to ebooks...I come to DigitalPoint and the like. I think I learn more for free without reading through all the fluff.
>> Oh you'd be surprised. People with Doctorates do odd things << Right.. that's what I meant. I do not doubt that they fall for this kind of stuff
I did I've done business with mlm/marketing firms that target highly educated professionals (doctors, lawyers architects, etc. . ). If the pitch is sophisticated and the upside is presented as "huge" then they are all easy marks. It's not about education its about greed (something for nothing). -jay
It's called a 'pyramid scheme' and there's thousands of these companies all over america. Two i know of are selling Perfume business to bussiness and another is selling vacuums to people door to door. They all advertise in the paper "managers needed, no experience ness." I've been to several of the "interviews" here in phoenix only to find out what the company really was and leave.
I had a buddy get scammed in the stock market, he was losing money and the only way out was to sell his interest to another loser for 10K knowing they would lose. He never sold that stock or recovered any money.
They can't. It was not live when the affiliate link was posted. I did a copy paste, looked at the site, (did not realize it was an affiliate link at the time), then posted a reply stating the post was spam. The moderator edited the post, pulled the affiliate link and reposted the site as a link. At least I am pretty certain that is how the link ended up live. I am pretty certain it was not initially.
I've noticed over the years that people who spent more time in school than in the real world lack common sense and street smarts. The kind of common sense that comes from real life experience. I know of no studies. It's just an observation on my part. In any event the largest Nigerian scam that was reported several months ago involved a PhD, who lost the most of anyone to date to the Nigerian Scam.
Academic education and/or training don’t make anybody an Internet business expert. As in everything, it takes time to learn and know where to go and when to run. Educated people can be sometimes more easily convinced -I believe- as they are used to accept as truth what they see in writing (e.g. in books or articles), and if they haven't been on the net for some time, but have just felt into the growing tide of people wanting to have an online business, there is a good chance, many of them will buy the scam. Why do you think they make the text soooo long? It denotes authority. .