Bearclaw14 Wrote:
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> I understand there are many new shoppers coming
> here every day trying to learn more about what we
> do. I was once a newbie and had many questions.
>
> However, one of them was NEVER "is this a scam?"
> If you have no common sense to know when somebody
> is trying to steal from you, you very likely have
> much bigger issues in your life than whether or
> not to cash the $4200 check you just received from
> an MS company.
>
> IF YOU HAVE TO ASK IF IT'S A SCAM, IT IS A SCAM!!
>
> I will likely receive negative responses to this,
> but today happens to be a day I can no longer take
> any more incompetence. If you are not mentally
> handicapped or elderly, you should never be asking
> these questions. I hate it that there are so many
> scammers and thieves out there, but I'll bet it is
> a very hard, important life lesson learned for
> those who have been scammed by not using common
> sense. One of the most important life lessons my
> parent's taught me: "There is no such thing as
> free lunch!" (unless you are mystery shopping
> )
I disagree, I received a lot of emails about mystery shopping and I thought that it was a scam until I found this message board and I asked "is this a scam?" I received a lot of positive responses and learned a lot about how to determine if something was a scam or not a landed on a lucrative line of side money. Let people ask what they want, isn't that what the board is for?
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