My Life is Changing with Only $6, After Reading this SPAM comment??

March 23rd, 2008 | email this | digg it

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Until now, I was okay with cheap car insurance, cheap mortgage kind of SPAM comments [well, I was not okay as such but these people don’t listen and keep on pouring those spammy comments on my posts that even Akismet cannot catch now a days]; but today it was too much. I received a 10x length comment on one of my money making posts. The comment was about how to change your life by just a simple method of sending $$ to each other in the world.

It’s sounding weird to you isn’t it, and with no surprise to me too. Rather, I am just pissed off because of this comment thinking so many people must be falling pray for this post and actually implementing it. Dude, if making money online would have been so easy, we would not have been working hard day and night to make couple of grands.

This person whoever he is, tried to give me full details on statistic and how it would work. I was decent enough to take the snapshot but rub the real addresses [who knows!] on the comment while posting here. I found it really weird, I mean people still believe in such things and waste lot of money in this.

You must be getting those no claim bank account somewhere in Cuba or Kazakhstan. And just to let you know, many people in third world countries and developing countries still get trapped in those mails and they try to contact to see if they can some money out of it. I found this comment just similar to what happens in this no claim bank account cases, and I got scared about it for a moment.

I just thought what if someone really gets trapped into this too, he might not be losing 1000s of bucks but whatever he would be, it’s losing money at the end. So I thought I shall write about it and urge people not to fall pray for such false claims.

Check out what this millionaire guy had written in the comment, it’s pretty interesting. He gonna make you millionaire in $6 only, please don’t fall pray to such comments or mails ever. That’s what I can say again.

I don’t know how would you react to this post, but I am eager to listen to your comments on this. I would not mind to categorize this post to “humor” as I don’t have “SPAM” category set yet :).

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21 Responded To This Post

7314. Prosperity Writer said in March 23rd, 2008

I dont know if you will agree with me, but I think this is scam. I’ve seen it many times before. The very principle is flawed in my opinion.

Here’s why. We send money to total strangers with the hopes that they will continue the process. We will not get any money if the chain stops.

The system itself is not generating any income. All new funds come from new members. This is a classic Ponzi scheme, and it is bound to fail because the system cannot sustain itself.

7317. General Marketing Blog said in March 24th, 2008

If i was you i would hit the delete button now. This has scam written all over it.

I cannot belive that people still fall for these scams.

7319. Link Building said in March 24th, 2008

Got one mail like this today and I heard about it before. And I find it quite harmless since you don’t loose more than 6dollars if you loose. on the other hand i guess i felt lazy to try it out and probably lots of others are the same so probably the chain is ending pretty soon. who knows…

7322. Life is Colourful said in March 24th, 2008

All of you, just for your information that I posted it here just to make sure that everyone who reads it wakes up and come to know that it’s nothing but a hopeless SCAM. Good that no one among us believe in such mails.

7325. Jim said in March 24th, 2008

I personally would never do this, but in actuality… the concept does work out. These pyramid schemes exist for a reason, they work out for the people on the top. So long as you are convincing people to join your network and aren’t stuck on the bottom of the chain… it is entirely possible that you make money.

I always delete these posts though, I just don’t want my readers falling into those pitfalls

7332. Agent 001 said in March 24th, 2008

You did right thing.This kinda comment is too offensive.

7373. Dave said in March 26th, 2008

This type of scheme has been around on the internet for over 10 years. It probably worked in the late nineties but its so out dated now and looks very amateur. Only internet newbies might fall for it…

7378. Paul said in March 26th, 2008

I tried to look this up on http://www.snopes.com/ but I couldn’t find the name of the exact scam. I just think that it sounds to good to be true so it most obviously is.

7383. Eric said in March 26th, 2008

What surprises me is how delicate these SPAMs are! Step 1, step2… These SPAMers must put a lot of effort on it. If they make the same effort in a legal way, (like blogging LOL) they may make more money! Why do they insist on cheating people!

7409. Paul said in March 27th, 2008

No kidding Eric, I always get emails informing me on how much money I have won through the European lottery. I am a billionaire twice over.

7425. Eric said in March 27th, 2008

Me, too. I actually blocked all messages containing those keywords. I believe no one like us will believe them, but it’s true that people from third world country are most likely to be the victims. Something needs to be done to protect those people.

7458. tech blog said in March 28th, 2008

you must be really pissed off that you spend time to upload the image

7468. Chris Guthrie said in March 28th, 2008

The way I look at it is that if you’re dumb enough to believe you can make a million dollars off of $6 then you don’t deserve that money anyway.

These scams are so funny but the only people I can feel sorry for that fall prey to them are elderly people.

7474. Kay Kastum said in March 28th, 2008

That’s a comment? He/She should make a blog post out of it instead.

7538. Aakash said in March 29th, 2008

Same here. I’d also delete it. I get atleast 10 emails daily making me rich a couple of million dollars everyday!

7609. Paul said in March 31st, 2008

So you never said whether you did the $6 thing?

7672. Prosperity Writer said in April 2nd, 2008

i take it that the webmaster of this blog did not send the 6$ after all these comments

7684. Computer Repair said in April 2nd, 2008

Typical MLM scam. My wife actually fell for this crap once, it was “Send $2 to blah blah to learn how to make money stuffing envelopes.” You stuffed the evvelope with $2 and mailed to ad to 10 people” How can people be so foolish? Making money takes work.

7710. Keylogger said in April 3rd, 2008

Actually these guys doesn’t deserve even mention about them, so i consider you post as a wrong step. It is possible that in the internet still are people that consider such things serious but they aren’t reading your blog, are they?

7737. Life is Colourful said in April 3rd, 2008

@ keylogger, true he does not deserve it and that’s why there is no link pointing to him. Now all this write up is for people who have been failing to such mails, even if there are millions around in the world and I can reach only hundreds of them, I am happy that at least I could reach few of them.

@ paul, prosperity writer, I would never ever fail to such things. Of course, I did not send any money to anyone.

11614. Nick said in June 9th, 2008

Good thing you didn’t fall for it. These things only work if others fall for the scam and people are getting smarter every day and not falling for these scams as easily as in the past