Reading harold_maude's journal

Something came in my e-mail today, and it made me laugh.
A letter with a get rich quick thingy attached to it. Same dog just wearing new clothes. My appoligies to all the great four footed friends out there for the comparison...

Over the last few months I've been getting alot of this in my bulk mail, and for shits and giggles I take a look at some of the contents. It's like going to a very weird circus that has these people doing different variations of the same theme.
All designed for one thing, To empty your bank acount, or at least relieve you of some of your cash.

So with that particular picture in mind,I've come up with a list of my favorite performers:

Top honors goes to the person who is charging just under a hundred dollars to show you how to get other people to sign up to show them how to sign up etc, etc, so that you can turn any ATM into a cash cow.

The second one goes to the guy or guys who use scare tactics, ie. you won't get a second chance at this, so get off your ass and send us money fast so we can get you in line with the rest of the suckers who are desperate to get out of the rat race.

The third one goes to the people who have created a get rich school.

And honorable mention goes to the folks who have taken alot of people to the cleaners through the act of phishing for info, so they can steal your identity.

These performers understand what P.T.Barnum understood...there is a sucker born every minuet.

The really sad effect of all of this is that it has created and added to the nessesity of not trusting what anyone says.
And it has given all those people out there who are trying by honest means to make a living through the net a very big black eye.

Because of my recient almost being suckered into a nigerian scam, and having no clue as to what I was dealing with, but having the good sense to talk to some people about it and so avoiding some really disasterous shit, I signed up for a newsletter that keeps me aprised of scams on the net.
And no it doesn't cost anything.

It only looks that way because your standing on your head.