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2008-02-17

Flim-Flam, Scam or Sham ...

Flim-Flam, Scam or Sham Make You Money If You Can

If I see one more advertisement on how I can make money online with the basic tools of a computer, an internet connection by following the lead of some hypster I may commit mayhem.

Screaming is too good a waste of effort for these sham artists.

Of course you have to have a computer to work on line. Of course you need an internet connection to even be on line.

Are all these offers flim-flam, scam or sham? No but the truth is, most of them are a total waste of your time and money.

It is what they do not say upfront, the behind the scenes offer that will help you succeed at filling your bank account or maxing your credit cards. More apt to be the latter.

The flim-flam experience

When I first came on line, in the mid 90's, I was Miss Gullible. I fell for the paid for e-mails, the HYIPs - tho NOT with MY money but the money of a good friend equally as gullible as to making a good income from them. While he knew the system of get in and get out faster than you got in, and made some dollars, eventually it caught up with him too.

History can sometimes be a very cruel teacher - he is gone - off line, his credibility shot to hell and his dreams some where out there in cyberspace.

For all I know of him now, not having heard from him for a while, he may be dealing with his worse fear - serving out some time in prison for what he was lead to believe in would work.

Lessons in logic and common sense often come with a very high price tag. Still these programs survive on the backs of the inexperienced newbie, the uninitiated and the hungry - whose desperation for their own success journey leads them astray.

Scam or Sham

It's too bad that those of us suckered by these opportunities do not keep a public record of our bad experiences. That we do not share them so that you can decide to avoid them in the first place.

But would you learn from our mistakes? Would it be too much to expect your lack of experience to help you make an informed decision on trusting what happened to us to help you avoid the same mistakes? Would the severity of my poor lost friend shake your common sense just a little?

Probably not.

More to the point, you would decide we just did not have what it takes. You are smarter than us and you buy into the promises that sound so good., and you just know you can do it better.

Maybe you can.

Maybe you will realize faster than we did that you cannot make money simply because some one else promises you can. It will take that four-letter word called work to make it happen as well as time and a darned good plan on how to build the business skills you will need to keep some control over your fast disappearing cash.

(WOW, look at all those dirty four letter words in that paragraph. )

Maybe you won't

Then again, you might just join the growing list of jaded marketers and decide the Net is just not for you. It is full of crooks and hypsters you just cannot resist. Maybe you are better off back in the chat rooms being solicited while you play games that are not so threatening.

For the slim majority of you who do get the message, who do expect and will accept nothing less than the best, who are willing to spend the time creating a workable plan, accept the need to test, work hard and prosper, we are here waiting to show you how.

Fran Klasinski
Mentoring you with common sense

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