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Get Rich Quick - SUBLIMINAL SEDUCTION - easy playground for on-line scams!

4/24/2012

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     In the past few months I've tried looking into a few "get rich quick" or "work at home" opportunities (yeah, right).  I've gone far enough to actually PAY for the "opportunity" TO GET BURNED!!!  I'm not going to name names, or even the websites) as I did retrieve my initial monetary investment (and "opportunity", yeah, right).    
     The first one:  after finding out that what I read initially was full of false promises and I did not get what they "advertised" ... it's all in the reading, wording, and small print - like 6 pt. type ...  they initially refused ANY refund at all.   It was website that was supposed to have a lot of "free" ways to do genealogy.  Lies, all lies. once I got there.   I promptly went to my FB account, posted information about them, their scam, their link, and my opinion of why I felt it was a rip off.  Then I sent them the link, and called them a scond time.  After some insistence, persistence, and their inability to DENY my charges against them, they gladly gave me a FULL refund, back on to my credit card!
      This time ... not quite the same scenario, but still avoidance, and unwillingingnes to "immediately" give me a refund.  This was one of those "make money on line", with possibility of BIG dollars quickly.  After I had given credit card information, THEN more offers which, of course, will help to make BIG money, FASTER!  I did not accept either of those offers.  They willingingly took my money and displayed a message that a user name and password to MY personal WEBSITE  for this TERRIFIC (yeah, right) opportunity would be emailed to me.  I received the email, congratulating me on my WISE decision to join them.  Yes, it had a user name and password.  Just one small catch ... it didn't work.  It even said there was no such email in their system.  Talk about being a bit IRATE ... especially since they boasted about being able to BEGIN RIGHT AWAY, as soon as I logged in.
      You can imagine my disappointment.  I waited, and tried again ... to no avail.  So I decided I would wait a couple of days before calling their "CUSTOMER SUPPORT" number.  Well, guess what?  That was on SUNDAY ... hmmm, of course, they don't work on SUNDAY!!!
      First thing this morning I called ... again ... the person on the other end of the line was a foreigner I could barely understand - that began my frustration, all over again.  Speaking VERY broken English, he did the best he knew how to inform me that without trying the system for 30 days first, I would be losing 50% of my money.   That didn't sit well with me, at all.  So he informed me that if I would be willing to do that, he would issue me a new user name and password, use the system for 30 days, then could request a FULL refund at the end of that time.  I agreed.  He told me it would take about 20 minutes to be changed.  I waited, then attempted to log into this WONDERFUL new website that I was going to start making BOO KOO bucks with ... what next?
      Oh, my ... yes, the user name and password worked fine - let me past the homepage.  What's the first thing I see?  A disclaimer box that I have to "Agree" to before I could SEE or DO ANYTHING in MY website.  With limited time before leaving for work, I made another phone call.  A woman answered, and spoke in ENGLISH.  Well, that was a good beginning.  I went over the disclaimer, sentence by sentence, explaining why I would not sign it.  I also explained my frustration of things that had happened even before I got a user name and password that WORKED.  She assured me a FULL refund on my credit card and informed me she would send me a confirmation email that my account has been closed and that I would receive my FULL refund in 3-5 days, which I received within just a few hours!
      I was a bit later than normal getting to work.  But ... mission accomplished!!!
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