Posted by lonelygirl on July 30, 2004, at 4:38:23
In reply to Re: Anyone know anything about Gifting Circles?, posted by Catgirl on July 28, 2004, at 20:06:14
When I was a teenager, I was always enthralled by the "work at home" schemes. I called or sent away for information on many of them, but they were all the same: they all required paying for the materials, the instructions, or something else in advance. I'm pretty sure they were all pyramid schemes in one form or another (the most ubiquitous was “stuffing envelopes,” which I’m pretty sure consisted of mailing out the same ads for stuffing envelopes in hopes that others would fall for it too and send money). I may have been young and naive, but I wasn't that stupid -- I knew better than to send someone money to let me work at home -- but I searched for a long time for legitimate one before I realized that they were ALL scams.
I am a little embarrassed about having been a stupid teenager thinking I could actually make a quick buck like that, but it really amazes me that ADULTS fall for these things all the time. I guess my early experiences with these scams ingrained in me the idea that, if something seems too good to be true, it probably is. I have read, though, that even smart people fall for scams, in part because they think, “I have good judgment and I’m too smart to fall for something that’s a scam,” so they don’t second-guess themselves.
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