Ok, maybe not the Mother, but kind of a funny bit of business anyway. I got a bit of junk mail the other day with the alluring title Money Making Opportunities and it has a picture on the cover with a safe busting with 100 dollar bills. I instantly thought of my blog buddy and occasional reader, Jack Payne and his Con Man’s Blog. This little rag has everything from stuffing envelopes to selling star creating machines-and all will make you rich!
This is like the back couple of pages of The National Enquirer or an old style comic book, the only thing missing is an ad for a pair of x-ray glasses, but maybe I just missed it among the 419 other small ads that promise wealth beyond the dreams of avarice.
Needless to say, I don’t believe a word of this trash, but I did find a lot of it kind of funny. One is for a wholesale place selling items for five dollars that you can sell thirty dollars, but no one eBay seems to be able to .99 cents for them. There are also wight loss scams-and you make money to boot. A lot of ads for xxx videos and websites, lots of claims of making 99 dollars an hour or 40 grand in thirty days.
Stop dreaming and start making big money-how? Well, you need send in X amount of money to find out. I am still shocked, though I shouldn’t be, to see ads for Lovely Ladies from The Orient or Russia or the Philippians who want to meet YOU. Then there are the companies selling every product imaginable with a Bible quote on it. They are all easy, fast, and anyone can do them in their spare time-even while they sleep.
Ok, does anyone read this stuff and really believe it? If so, maybe I could interest you in a nice Bridge in Brooklyn or maybe some prime Land in Florida. . .
