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FIB - Scams 101
Re: Get Real Help from StoresOnline
Posted By: Dennis Bevers In Response To: Get Real Help from StoresOnline (R. Shapiro)
Date: Wednesday, July 9, 2008, at 11:47 a.m.(pst)
>> Reading through this blog has not provided me any real information
>> that I found helpful. I can get this type of “advice” from a bunch of
>> gossips in the coffee shop - what people need is real information and real
>> help. This is where they can get it.>> Negative blogs like this one are just another means for irresponsible
>> promotion of fear on the internet, enabling those who would rather
>> complain than seize the right to their dreams, and giving bad mouthed
>> excuses for why a person would rather choose failure than greatness. It’s
>> a pity that this is more the standard than the exception.Nice way to introduce yourself here, Guitarhero. Just because you don't understand something, you don't need to immediately criticize or condemn it.
You might want to give it a second look. For one thing, this isn't a blog. It's an anti-scam site that exists to warn others of the many scams, schemes, and outright frauds that are permeating the internet today. People have a right to be concerned if they might be hoodwinked in going with the wrong business opportunity.
There are lots of positive posts here, but when someone asks about and unknown business or self-proclaimed guru, the responses will tend to find out the negatives and possible downside of any given opportunity.
For more positives, check out MaaMaw's Toolbox and MaaMaw's Favorite Last Chance Bizopps. Both put forth positive examples of what others are doing to earn home-based incomes online and off.
Obviously, you'd label it negative if a person stood in the highway with a hand made sign warning people about a bridge out around the blind corner. That person would be considered a hero on this forum.
There are a number of successful people who populate this forum (not a blog), who offer lots of help to others. But the true focus here is to help people from losing money on scams and bad ideas, such as home-based typing ripoffs, home assembly scams, $6 chain letters, gifting clubs, and other Ponzi schemes. Some visitors to this site have saved thousands of dollars by avoiding being taken advantage of by unscrupulous leaches.
If you'd like to stay and be a part of this community, you need to turn your flame down a bit. MaaMaw likes for everyone to be friendly on her forum.
Dennis Bevers
A helpful list of criteria for checking out that next business opportunity.
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