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"Ron Jamieson"

Posted By: Chris
Date: Wednesday, September 26, 2007, at 5:34 a.m.(pst)

In Response To: Re: Web Promotion Specialist Certification (Steve MacLellan)

I too have been trying to do some research to find out if CCI is a scam...I decided to send "Ron Jamieson" an e-mail to see what response I got. Below is the e-mail I recieved.

I find it highly suspisious that all the web articles about CCI are not actually useable...like the TV station one, you can't click on any of the options on the top like "Home", etc.

Anyway, just wanted to post this "e-mail" from "Ron"....

-Chris

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: CCI
From: Chris
Date: Tue, September 25, 2007 4:26 pm
To:

Hello Ron,
Just writing to say thank you for the article about CCI. Have you had much response from it? Is your mother & your intern still doing business from their CCI training? Looking forward to hearing from you,

Chris L. Rich

RE: CCIŝ
From: rjamieson@wrwdtvreporter.com
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Sent: Wed 9/26/07 7:45 AM
To: Chris
Chris,

Yes, my mom and Heidi are still doing quite well financially with the WPS program from CCI.

Ron Jamieson

>> Hmmm! It cost $249 for 6 hours of training and you can earn $125,000
>> your first year. I bet all those people who have multiple degrees will
>> have wished they read this ad first before spending years in university
>> and thousands of dollars on their education ;-)

>> It says:

>> "The work that web promotion specialists do involves typing
>> articles that reference the products and services of the companies they
>> work with. The key is in knowing where to find the right websites and web
>> services where these special articles need to be placed."

>> Most of these "special places" are places like this forum,
>> my forum, Willie's forum, etc... It might be hard for some of these people
>> to collect their pay though on boards that are moderated and zap the
>> messages quickly.

>> One woman claims to have earned $84,000, working an average of 10
>> hours a week.

>> It says to click here to read a newspaper article about this company
>> in the Chicago Employment Weekly. The Chicago Employment Weekly website
>> domain name was registered 6 days after the Computer Career Institute
>> website, and the ONLY story it shows is the one about the ad you're
>> looking at. It would seem a bit odd that the only article a weekly
>> employment newspaper would have is one article from June.

>> I get a kick out of all the noise the promotion makes about you might
>> be able to get hired by a Fortune 500 company. With six hours training,
>> about the only work you would get is delivering pizzas, as long as you
>> didn't mess up finding the correct office wanting the pizza.

>> Barb, save your money.

>> Best Regards,
>> Steve MacLellan

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