Scamworld: 'Get rich quick' schemes mutate into an online monster

[PoliticAverse]

A network of pitchmen have used the internet and fear of a failing economy to play the ultimate long con

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Scamworld is in many ways a primitive, naive place. It’s populated on one side by mock-businessmen with a cartoonish view of their own existence. On the other side are their victims, people for whom the internet is a mystery, people who are inclined to believe that with the right software, or by purchasing a website, they can get rich.

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[AverageJoe90]

1. A decent article, but it seems to imply that ALL internet businesspeople are scammers in places.

Which isn't really the case.....although a lot of scammers are definitely out there, though. Haven't been scammed myself, not yet, but I've always been rather wary of such because I've known about the various horror stories of people who have been. Perhaps one of the biggest scammers of all time appears to have been a lady by the name of Angela Penbrook, operating out of the L.A. area.

And, also, I think one of the biggest problems out there is that a lot of people may get what they've paid for but not making as much as they quite expected, so therefore, they automatically start thinking that it's a scam just for that reason, even if there's no incredible promises and a guaranteed refund attached to it(after all, honest entrepreneurs don't engage in the former and always offer, and carry out, the latter.)