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- Tetrator, on 12/06/2008, -0/+16Buried. The $700+ billion money grab by the banks was about as blatant a robbery as they come. ;)
- vtbarrera, on 02/03/2009, -0/+16Seems like the good ol' fashioned get rich quick schemes are making a comeback.
- jfdolier, on 12/06/2008, -0/+11Which reminds me, I got a letter today from some Nigerian guy who says you're related to this African Prince and entitled to millions of dollars. You just need to send me $10,000 so I can pay the transfer fee...
- sciencelovesyou, on 12/06/2008, -0/+10Here come the new scams, same as the old scams.
- resolva, on 12/06/2008, -0/+8When people get desperate they will fall for cons a lot easier. Fact of life!
- mediaspree, on 12/06/2008, -0/+7I got hooked up with this Nigerian prince. Sounds like a sweet deal!
- bluechigger, on 12/06/2008, -0/+6Reader's Digest? Did somebody pick this up off the back of my parents' toilet?
- katedog, on 12/07/2008, -0/+5Really? So what in the hell did you call Sarah Palin? A Nigerian prince if ever I saw one.
- leontes, on 12/06/2008, -0/+5I can teach you a valuable lesson about who you should decide to entrust your money to... for only five dollars! Learn something that will surely increase your attention and care when in comes to paying for vague services and tempting offers without knowing exactly what you are getting. I guarantee that you will feel differently after learning this lesson, and have strong feelings about gaining the experience from it.
- Mudcrutch, on 12/06/2008, -0/+5"the subject line was blank, and the e-mail was text-only, says Peacock, without any "fancy ads" that usually come with official company marketing e-mails."
Wow fancy ads! Great work detective. Why are people so dumb? - AlbinoRaven, on 12/07/2008, -0/+3Work from home!!!
Earn $576 a week!
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The scam: people send ten bucks to learn how to put up signs that say work from home, earn $576 a week and tell other people about the scam. - inactive, on 12/06/2008, -0/+3Amen to that
- BlacklabelSAR, on 12/06/2008, -0/+3These scammers will also pull your email from CareerBuilder, Monster etc and contact people just looking to find a job. The emails usually end up in your junk folder. You "meet all the requirements" and they will be "making deposits into your bank account". So at best you are laundering money, and actually they just want to clean out your bank account.
Also, some employers are not disclosing the terms of employement when hiring. (Sales jobs) Imagine you've been laid off and are on unemployement. You take a sales job based upon what you are told in the interview. 2 weeks into the job you find out that if you don't get a sale by each Wednesday, you will be sent home unpaid for the rest of the week.
Also, you took the job based on the highly touted bonus program. But they don't mention that if the customer opts not to maintain their membership for a second month, you are docked a sale. That's a scam, not a job. And now you are disqualified for further unemployment because you've taken a "job".
What do you tell your family when you can't pay the rent?
Now your credit goes to ***** because you can't pay your bills.
Now employers won't hire you because you have bad credit and therefore must be irresponsible.
Don't talk to me about freedom or duty to country. - spottydog88, on 12/06/2008, -0/+3The way things are right now I have absolutely no sense of humor. As a small business owner struggling to keep my people in jobs, when I hear about stuff like this I want to inflict some serious street justice. There needs to be a website where you can go to find out who theses ***** are and protect those of us who are frantically trying to survive. It's not about being dumb, it's about being desperate. People who feed at that trough need to be hurt.
- dizilbdog, on 12/06/2008, -1/+3Hmm the Government has been scamming us for years nothing new here.
- inactive, on 12/06/2008, -0/+2Cagey Cons. What will the media think up next? I like alliteration though.
- shiftless, on 12/07/2008, -0/+2Nothing is for free. Still, I know people that fall for scams every time, even when you tell them flat out it's a scam. Oh well.
- inactive, on 12/07/2008, -0/+2Palin was a scam you can see miles away without a binocular. anybody with a brain cell could see that. But Obama...now that's even more insidious.
- craighoxton, on 12/06/2008, -0/+2The only legit con worth getting into is the Hedge Fund industry: you steal...I mean arbitrage the money from rich people, get yourself a yacht and and if the marks...I mean investors bitch and whine about their returns, throw phrases like "lock-up period" and "high water mark" to make them go away.
- UIS4821, on 12/08/2008, -0/+2Glad to see that some people see what good these debt settlement companies are. Scam Scam Scam!!!
- JonBrowne, on 01/14/2009, -0/+1I liked the article. Like it says in the article, whatever a debt consolidation firm can do, you can do yourself. Also, be very careful about fake debt collectors. It gives you the perfect reason to tell your real debt collectors you will not make any actions over the phone that they need to VALIDATE the debt. I have a lot more free tips on staying out of debt on my blog:
http://howtodealwithcreditorsandgetoutofdebt.blogs ... - bluechigger, on 12/06/2008, -0/+1Do you have a paypal account? I'm interested, if it's only five dollars. Would you prefer me just wire you the $5? What's your email so we can talk.
- inactive, on 12/07/2008, -0/+1America scammed the greedy Indians with pots and pans,if that didn't work a rifle butt over the head...or is that Irag
- bromac, on 12/06/2008, -1/+2What's a savior-to? Is it like a lean-to?
And doesn't a deal-or give me cards? Or various black market substances? - inactive, on 12/07/2008, -0/+1Now that's change I can believe in
- inactive, on 12/06/2008, -0/+1"The economic crisis has left many Americans deep in debt and looking for a deal-or a savior-to get them through tough times. But instead of a white knight, many are getting a shady scammer."
It's almost as if they're talking about Obama or something. - cooperjscott, on 12/09/2008, -0/+1Napoleon Bonaparte
When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation, since the hand that gives is above the hand that takes. Money has no motherland; financiers are without patriotism and without decency; their sole object is gain.
Thomas Jefferson
"We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debt, as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our calling and our creeds we will have no time to think, no means of calling our miss-managers to account but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers... And this is the tendency of all human governments. A departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent for [ another]... till the bulk of society is reduced to be mere automatons of misery... And the fore-horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression." - skunkman62, on 12/06/2008, -1/+2like the stock market or lotto
- noahhoward, on 05/13/2009, -0/+1If it works, don't fix it.
- dutdumin, on 12/12/2008, -0/+0Thankfully a kind Ugandan man wants to share $4 million with me, so I won't get caught out by any scams in desperation this Christmas.
- 6oo63D, on 12/06/2008, -2/+2My 100th digger (CLICK THE red or green BUTTONS NOW!!!) will win the daily prize of $$$
Greedy folks and suckers fall alike. - skunkman62, on 12/06/2008, -2/+2haha..how original
- chrismar08, on 01/14/2009, -0/+0good stuff....
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http://plastic-surgery-financing.info
http://laserhairremovalcost.net
http://settlement-loan.info
http://stairliftshelp.com
http://justmileycyrus.com - gamer2x, on 02/09/2009, -0/+0great story.digged it.
http://can-collection-agency-sue-for-a-debt.blogsp ... - Sovereigndk, on 12/07/2008, -5/+3#1 Con today is Obama!
- inactive, on 12/06/2008, -7/+3kinda like electing Obama. another scam for the public.
- inactive, on 12/06/2008, -7/+2http://www.debtadvice.org/ a great source of info.
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