Broadcast #4 - Programs and Companies that WILL scam you

Like a lot of people, I've been scammed. I mentioned in an earlier post that I bought a number of programs in hopes that I could make a bit of extra cash in addition to my regular income. I ended up losing money, if anything.

When I first started exploring the online business industry, I thought I did enough research to distinguish what was real and what was bullshit. So I would always visit numerous sites to and would judge the quality of these programs or companies by how their website was laid out. Which usually works! However, here's something that happened in the beginning, I joined a program that was "free" called HerbalLife. I'm sure you've heard the name, it's almost everywhere. You know those signs that you tend to see in your city that say "lose weight, call me to find out how" or "work at home, make thousands!", that's them. So anyways, I filled out a form online and got a call INSTANTLY. (Someone must not have a life, huh?). I was contacted and they keep you on the phone for a long time, almost an hour just trying to convince you about that greatness of Herbal Life and blah blah blah. If you're still skeptical, they send you a video. The video usually displays a "rich" family in a mansion of some sort and they talk about how great their life is and how they don't do anything but sit back and watch the money pour in. Lazy!!! Anyways, after a week, I got a phone call from the "team leader" and pretty much she wanted me to enter the program by putting down $1,000. That would only make me a mediocre student. If I wanted to see money FAST, I'd have to put $5,000. YEAH RIGHT. I backed out of this and almost changed my number because they bug! Finally I got them off my back by saying I'd call them if interested. She laid off. What's really weird is that every time that woman would call me, she'd call from different numbers. Hmmm...

Another program that can convince you because she has "proof" is Jean from 3500weekly.com.
Her page is very convincing. Extremely convincing. She promises to "hold your hand" during the entire program to help you make money. But like I said, she fails to mention the hundreds of dollars you'll be spending on advertising costs. Her program consists of the Adsense and Adwords engines by Google. You CAN make money off it if you have money to toss in the air to begin with. However, I wasn't one of those people who had that luxury. I bought her "e-books" and tried everything in it. Her ebook by the way is filled with links of people she "recommends" to help you out with building your website. If you care to pay attention to what you're clicking on, you're actually clicking on websites that actually pay her to bring customers to them. So really, those companies, yes they're legit but when you buy something, she makes money off you. Or she'll make money by you clicking on those links. Interesting huh?

So just be careful with what you get yourself into. Don't fall victim like I did. It really isn't the greatest feeling in the world when you find out that you can't make a dime off these programs. Be safe out there.