If you browse forums looking for advice and help on how to make money online, you may well have noticed posts of a particular nature. The posts I am about to refer to could be set up by new forum members or even well-established posters (the latter, is better…). You will find these in forums for Marketing, MMO, SEO and Adult and which cover all shades of ‘hat’. They will probably work most effectively in grey/black hat forums or ones where ‘newbies’ are a big feature.

The post will go something like this:

“I am looking for some help (around 50 people) with a brand new project. I have been working on this for some time and have made good money already, but I need a few people to help me take this further.

“I have the tools, the hosting and the ways to put this into action. This is not a ‘make mega bucks’ scheme or a long term plan. The money should come in for a few weeks, but then the whole project will probably get slammed, but I can guarantee that you will make at least 100 dollars a day for a while if you do things according to my plan.

“The initial investment is only 50 bucks, but you will earn double that in the first 24 hours. There may be more investment later down the line, but not that much and only if you want to take things further.

“If you are interested, PM me and I will give you more details…”

When questioned on the forums about the niche being promoted or the ways this is guaranteed to work, the poster will give vague ‘hints’. He/she may ’sort of agree’ with the suggestions as to the niche involved and the scheme used… without giving away the bottom line.

After all, this is a scheme to make money quickly in what appears to be at least a grey hat way. No one who knows their stuff is going to give away their ’secrets’ on a forum, are they? In fact, if they gave away too much you might suspect them of being naive and feel that the scheme woud be unable to work because of overkill…

So, it’s all a well-kepted secret and the poster knows what he or she is talking about. It’s probably shady and to do with gaming big G, which may well add to its charm. After all, everyone knows there is no completely honest white hat way to make an instant killing on the internet, especially with big G watching, but many of us would like to try…

And wouldn’t it be nice to have a slice of this? 50 bucks isn’t that much after all. Even if this turns out to be a scam, you won’t have lost that much, will you? So, it’s worth finding out more, isn’t it…?

Stop and think a moment.

You will have to pay 50 dollars for this ’secret info’. The poster says he/she wants 50 people to help him/her. That’s 2,500 bucks in their pocket straight away. And there is talk of ‘later investment’. If this turns out to be the case, will you have to invest more to get the money coming in?

Either way, this is all carried out by PM, and no one knows how many people will actually invest their 50 bucks in this ’secret scheme’. It could be 50, or 100 or even 1,000… Nice little earner isn’t it?

And what about that ‘extra investment’ you may have to pay later down the line? Surely if this is a short term ‘make money quick’ plan, further investment would be a waste of time?

I would suggest that talk of ‘further investment’ is there just to make the scheme appear more legit and less like the poster is going to take the money and run, and that’s why it has been thrown into the mix.

Bottom line; Don’t Go There… unless you want to find out for yourself how this ‘get rich quick’ scheme actually works.

Of course, you could be reading this and be one of those forum posters, hoping to make a killing this way. If so, nice try. I am impressed by the play on the ’shady’ aspects and that you are not being too greedy asking for 50 bucks. It is actually a refreshing change to the so-called ‘honest A listers’ and their followers, who will quite happily take hundreds of dollars from newbies without a second thought.

But I will not be taking up your offer to ‘make money quickly’. I do quite like your style though. It’s given me something a little different to write about…

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