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18 Scams Everyone Should Be Aware Of

4. Collector Coin Commercials.

These things are straight up preying on elderly and senile viewers. "Avoid disappointment and future regret" watch for that phrase. Its in almost all of them. And then theyll reference how gold prices are soaring while its completely irrelevant to the purchase. Its so terrible to think of the amount of money people pour into these things, thinking theyll be leaving something behind for their grandkids college fund or whatever. That shit is infuriating.

5. Facebook questionnaires trick people into revealing common security answers

Yeah, your "pornstar name" that’s your mother’s maiden name, the name of your first pet and the street you grew up on and similar shit.

8. "Multi-level marketing."

Here’s the thing: if you put time and effort into actually selling the product (Jamberry Nails, Herbalife, whatever), you’re not going to make any money. You’ll have invested a ton of time and energy into something where you’ll end up making less than minimum wage most times.

You can make money in multi-level marketing strategies (read: scams), but the only way you’ll ever make money is to grow the pyramid — and that means recruiting people under you.

The product is simply a smoke screen as well as a legal technicality so they aren’t considered an illegal pyramid scheme. It doesn’t matter if it’s vinyl nails, health products, or rancid cucumbers, the "real" product is a pyramid-shaped hierarchy of "sales associates" (or whatever they choose to call you) who simply take a percentage of the sales and recruitment bonuses from all the levels below them. The more levels below you, the more money you make.

If you’re still selling the product at any point in time, here’s a hint: you’re near the bottom of the pyramid, giving a large percentage of your profits to the people above you.

11. Rent To Own

I have an employee who is still paying off a PS3 that was stolen from him three YEARS ago and still has like $300 left on it. He has paid well over $2000 on it already.

I went into one of those stores once just out of curiosity once. I needed a new computer monitor. They had one for $24 a week. I thought thats not that bad. Ill have the full balance paid off in two months. Except that the payments were not until the full retail value of the monitor is paid off or a bit above that. It would be for like 3 years. So when it was all said and done it would of cost me almost $3500 for a $200~ computer monitor. After hearing a whole speech about how ‘convenient’ it was I came to the conclusion it was just a huge scam and walked out never to return.

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