Andrew comments on my web post, Earn Thousands At Home – Set Up Your Own Internet Company – Oh, Good Grief, You’d Think This One Would Get Old!
As usual he is perceptive and intelligent. Here is what he had to say –
Where there is desperation and the hope of reaping huge benefit with minimal effort, there will be scam artists there to pray on those feelings. Unfortunately, this is nothing new.
I grew up in a small town right outside of Augusta, GA. On the other side of Augusta was (still is) a community of gypsies who still rip off anyone they can get their claws on. Every year, all of the men and some of the women pack up and travel from town to town. In each town, they will go door to door advertising a particular service. A favorite of theirs is gutter cleaning and/or replacement. They will target the elderly and tell them that their gutters need to be replaced and they can do it “cheaper than the competition”. They will take several hundred dollars from these old people and instead of actually replacing the gutters, they will spend a few hours taking them down, cleaning them out a little and making them look new, and putting the same old gutters back up.
That is an example of one of their less sinister scams. They get much worse. If something seems too good to be true, then it probably is!
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