Recent posts by some clown regarding his 'Free Ipod' pyramid scheme made me want to ask, who here has been scammed? And how?
Pyramid schemes, amway, investment deals - none of it has ever appealed to me. People who told me about Amway, I just politely but firmly said No. Someone I knew who was very successful at Amway, never spoke about it, never tried to recruit people from his friends, and never sold to his friends. He said to me, you will just lose all your friiends, and they are more important than business. He cold called every1 that he dealt with. Few people have such high minded ethics.
I never believed the emails that said Microsoft would send me varying amounts of money if I sent an email to someone else. ALthough clearly others did as I received 100s of the emails. I did not believe that yahoo or AOL or Netscape was running out of names and so I had to send the names to someone else or return and email to validate them.
I dismissed as rubbish all Nigerian type scams, where someone with bad english would ask me to let them use their bank account for a few days in return for 20 million dollars. The scam apparently comes when they are asked for a bit of 'flash money' to bribe officials, only a few grand, and you are getting 20 million? Of course you can spare it.
The closest I have come to being scammed was in Hong Kong, where every bastard tries to short change you - so I got into the habit of making them tell me what note I was holding before I gave it to them.
Anyone else want to admit to being scammed, or nearly scammed?
Pyramid schemes, amway, investment deals - none of it has ever appealed to me. People who told me about Amway, I just politely but firmly said No. Someone I knew who was very successful at Amway, never spoke about it, never tried to recruit people from his friends, and never sold to his friends. He said to me, you will just lose all your friiends, and they are more important than business. He cold called every1 that he dealt with. Few people have such high minded ethics.
I never believed the emails that said Microsoft would send me varying amounts of money if I sent an email to someone else. ALthough clearly others did as I received 100s of the emails. I did not believe that yahoo or AOL or Netscape was running out of names and so I had to send the names to someone else or return and email to validate them.
I dismissed as rubbish all Nigerian type scams, where someone with bad english would ask me to let them use their bank account for a few days in return for 20 million dollars. The scam apparently comes when they are asked for a bit of 'flash money' to bribe officials, only a few grand, and you are getting 20 million? Of course you can spare it.
The closest I have come to being scammed was in Hong Kong, where every bastard tries to short change you - so I got into the habit of making them tell me what note I was holding before I gave it to them.
Anyone else want to admit to being scammed, or nearly scammed?
