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Rustydog2010

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well wise guy.. this was not my first post. I posted a thread last week or so asking about a motor I have.. and also in some other thread.

I logged in the other day and noticed and reported 2 or 3 spam threads about shoes and purses..:furious2:

Considering you have 2 posts, and have 2 posts in this thread. That would indicate it was your first post? :confused:
 

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well wise guy.. this was not my first post. I posted a thread last week or so asking about a motor I have.. and also in some other thread.

I logged in the other day and noticed and reported 2 or 3 spam threads about shoes and purses..:furious2:

Thanks for helping out! There must be a glitch with the post count. I see you have 4 posts, however in the corner of your post it says you only have 2 :huh:

Oh well, hope you stick around, and welcome to the forum! It just seemed odd if that was your first post, after all you don't usually just sign up to a forum to talk about spam!

The spam level is rediculous. I notice all our (active) mods are in the US of A (I think). Would it be useful to have moderators in different time zones?
 

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We can always kick California out and add y'all in. Those CA people are :eek:ut:

HEY dont think I dont read this thread...haha:roflol:

it seems like ever since this thread started, there has actually been more spam than before. But of course it is getting taken care of quickly and deftly by our moderators...:cheers2:
 

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Isn't a poniz scheme highly illegal

Yes. A money only pyramid is illegal, you know, "You give me $20 and then get three friends to give me $20 each, and I'll give you back $10 for each of theirs so you make $10." It works great for the guy at the top and some people in the middle, but eventually you run out of people.

They make them leagl by using the pyramid structure to support a supposedly legitimate business. This is comminly called Multi-Level Marketing(MLM). You can make money selling products like Amway, Scentsy, Tupperware, Magic Chef, but you supposedly can get yachts and Lamborgini's and become a Black Diamond or something if you get a WHOLE bunch of people to join under you.

A Ponzi is where you use a pyramid to get money, but decieve investors by making it look like the profits are actually coming from the fascade business.

In the case of my friend...I think his company is doing both. They have underground people stealing identities to "buying" an S load of product to make the business end look good AND defrauding people with the Pozi aspect.

He invested $20,000 off a credit card check. Poor sad sap...MAny,many of us tried to warn him:mad2:
 

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Well how ever they hind it it's still highly illegal

Poor bloke
Does he realuze it will collapse and he will get nothing

We recently had a very big one go bust in Australia
They were a tree planting company And did well at making it legal
U invest and technically own an area of trees
But they planted trees on any land and only survived as the company grew
During the GFC they ran out of investors and collapsed in a few Weeks
 

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Poor bloke
Does he realuze it will collapse and he will get nothing

We recently had a very big one go bust in Australia
They were a tree planting company And did well at making it legal

Oh, he's already showed me where he's made a $1,000 in one day! I look at his phone, "That says points man...a thoudand points." "Same thing" "No, no it's not. You can't buy food with Zeekler points."

A tree planting pyramid...THAT'S GENIUS! I'll bet they had a whole carbon trading angle that really worked the "green" angle.
 

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Yep tell him to try to trade those points in

The carbon tax is what made the tree company so big

Obviously we never invested
But they still screwed us by buying land around our farm for way over the reasonable value
 

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Also- please avoid posting responses to the spam, and/or quoting the spam, as it makes for more clean-up afterwards... Thanks, folks!

Woops haha. I'd be a serial offender there lol. I figured it was an actual person advertising for money and thought I could reason with them.....I'll take my phazor off stun and just report those suckers instead lol.

Let's see... Trade my snow for 12 months of bikini season? I'm SO in!!!

I'd kill for your snow hahaha. Wanna swap.........

Got this and a couple of others just as good about 20 mins at most from my place hahaha




How about the biggest sand dunes in the southern hemisphere, bout half an hour haha

 
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