Pathetic Scams

I can’t believe Jesus still needs to warn people about these false prophets

Phrases and words like “essentially free”, “limited time”, and “consultant” are always like red flag words when dealing with any sort of online or at home work

Scammers: you don't need any money to start your journey to success Also scammers: you need to pay me $2000 to start your journey to success

"I never trust anyone who's more excited about success than about doing the thing they want to be successful at." –Randall Munroe, xkcd

The most frightening thing about scams is not how bad they can be, but how easily people can fall for them. Atomic Shrimp has some great videos on this subject imo

Once again, Charlie underestimates just how gullible the average person is.

I tuned into one of these "FREE" seminars once. It was a phone conference type deal where everyone would call in and listen to the spiel the presenter was putting on. Not even 15mins into it and there's people with unmuted mics yelling at their spouses/girlfriends, dogs barking, scratching noises on mics, banging, vacuuming, people watching porn and an uproar of others trying to get others to mute. They shut the call down maybe 2 minutes later citing "technical difficulties". Funniest shit

“Free training”, aka vaguely talking about nothing for an hour and then pitching a $300 course that’s “actually” worth $3000 dollars

Dhar Mann changed more lives than these courses.

As someone with a Mother who is so deeply convinced that online courses are legit makes me so sad. I ALWAYS try to tell her that they're scams, she never listens, it sucks too because she isn't exactly the wealthiest person, yet shell dump hella money on these dumbass online courses. She is instantly won over by the charm of the presenter. It makes me angry.

Reminds of multi level marketing pyramid schemes. I've had a couple friends get tricked into those, and were convinced that they'd make it big doing them, but they both just ended up losing money. I tried to ask them about it when they were getting into it, and ask exactly what they were doing and why they were convinced they were gonna be rich from it, but neither of them could really explain and both gave me the same "you just have to go a meeting and see for yourself". Kinda crazy people get into that sort of thing, but I guess someone was good at convincing them

The main thing I hate about these types of scams is that it targets financially unstable people who are desperate to just break even so they go even deeper into debt and dig an even deeper hole

You think everyone just knows that these are scams, but the facts there are so many shows how successful they are at ripping people off, really sad

Cr1tikal doesn't get it, he lacks K N O W L E D G E

my parents used to fall for these all the time, and even at like 14 i knew something was off, but they wouldn't listen to me because of how young i was. now, at 19, I'm paying for rent for my mom in low income housing after being homeless for a year. these really mess up peoples lives and take their money with zero regard

In sales, we create a script based around a few key points. Those of which being 1. Scarcity 2. Reciprocity 3. Making you think that you actually need the product Scarcity is the more overt one, but reciprocity tends to be a lot more covert. Keep an ear out for fake gurus saying things like “but just for today I’LL be dropping the price from 399 to 199 for YOU.” I do something for you so you must do something for me. I drop the price so you must do me the favor of purchasing it. The third rule can be seen with the “Have you ever____” line of rhetorical questions “Have you ever felt like your balls hurt?” “DO YOU WISH YOUR BALLS WERE THE SIZE OF BASKETBALLS?” “Do you ever feel like girls laugh at you for not having Goliath gonads?” Shit like that. Then comes statements that may or may not be true like “studies show that 99.9 percent of (real) girls like guys with Goliath gonads.” When it comes to products like that, people with insecurities surrounding that are the easiest people to sell to. To conclude, sales is psychology. Every salesman has a script, keep an ear out for repeating key words. And all we want is your credit card. Some salesman are less ethical than others. These fake gurus don’t care about ethics. Only that green in their bank accounts.

I like how that guy said "This video changed THOUSANDS OF LIVES" but he didn't mention whether it's for the better or for the worse

I think what Charlie fails to realize is that these people who get scammed are legitimately desperate for a change/cash or most likely uneducated in internet culture to the point where they can’t discern scams from actual products

I have a theory: his whole business plan is getting people to pay him like 2k for the get rich quick course, and when there are 10 people in the course he goes like: "see? I made 20k from you guys by selling you nothing but promises, and you can do it to!" That's it, that is the whole business idea.

“How do people fall for this shit?” Desperation is a hell of a drug