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...and possible legal problems with the IRS...
Posted By: Mel. White In Response To: You heard it here first!!! (Dennis Bevers)
Date: Friday, September 7, 2007, at 7:58 a.m.(pst)
>> I'm sure someone else somewhere has received this spam blast also, but
>> this is the first time I've been pitched with this new MLM super fruit
>> mega-wonder panacea ->> PogaMoonga™....
I rolled my eyes at all the spelling and grammatical errors on the website. The "Middle Ease" (they meant "Middle East") one in particular was amusing. The website was created in October of 2006, so it's been around for just under a year. The mix of "I never learned to spell in skool" text with sections that suddenly sound professional mean that this company's website
1) doesn't have a competant head secretary (who'd spot the errors)
2) is probably a one-man operation
3) is run by someone with a poor sense of detail who has borrowed text from other Moringa sites
4) had a web designer with a poor sense of detail (some of the pages link to the wrong section)BUT... one thing I noticed on the website: "Do I have to pay taxes on this? Answer: No. The company pays all the taxes." What I don't see is the acknowledgement that you have to report the income and pay taxes on that. This could mean trouble for the distributor unless that is cleared up in the training.
>> If you haven't heard of it yet, it may be in the spam you receive
>> tomorrow, next week, or next month. If you don't get spammed with this
>> one, it may be a sign you aren't quite as connected to the internet as you
>> thought.Remember how I keep saying "if it came in spam mail, it's a sign that someone's desperate?" I did a search for "Pogamoonga" this morning on Google and of the 10 sites listed on the first page, 3 of the 4 from distributors are 404 (abandoned/gone elsewhere). When I get a distributors' page, there's no way to order a drink (but it's in "pre-launch.")
Oh yes... if you google for the corporate address, you get someone's house in the middle of Montgomery, Texas. No kidding. Montgomery is about an hour or so north of Houston; a smaller town in the middle of Not Much Else, Texas -- as anyone with a map can see for themselves.
The folks at MLM.COM haven't mentioned this one, so it's not a very high profile target. I think with the problems above, they'd probably avoid it.
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