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Each one of us spends an average of 14 hrs per week on the Internet according to a recent research, done by the University of Texas at Austin. And besides the “Buy Viagra” spam, we also are often bombarded by many ‘Get Rich Quickly by Working from Home’ emails.

You will typically recognize them right away – the subject of the message is usually something like ‘Make millions in your pajamas’, ‘Make money online’ or even ‘Start your home business on eBay’. If you visit the scammer’s website, you will usually encounter a narrow page with a photo of the alleged ‘home working millionaire’ on top, lately they even started including video and voice as well. That is followed by a bunch of text and ‘customer testimonials’ and of course finally, the ‘limited-time’ offer. You may see a line, which will say that the ‘special offer’ ends on … today’s date! Sometimes there is even a countdown for 10-15 minutes.

Why is this scam? First of all, here’s how the trick with the ‘limited time offer’ works. The date is called and displayed automatically, by a simple script. It always will display today’s date. Visit the website tomorrow and you will see that the offer magically extended itself with another day. The countdown? That’s another script. Refresh the page and voila, your countdown started again. This is all done in effort to trick the visitor, that he / she has found something special, moreover, it’s on sale! Let’s buy it now! Try to Google the names of the ‘satisfied customers’ from the customer testimonials section. I bet you that you will find nothing.

Moreover, consider this: let’s say that you have discovered a system that makes money. Would you share it with anybody for $45 and create an avalanche of competitors? I don’t think so. How about the kits that they sell on eBay? For $10-15 you are promised to receive a document or software which will teach you how to make ‘thousands overnight’. At the same time, you check the seller’s history and you see him / her selling their old computer. They claim to have a secret that explains how to make money and at the same time they sell old stuff on eBay…

My final thoughts: Unfortunately, there are no quick ways to get rich without doing almost anything. Unless of course if you decide to sell cocaine or if you win the lottery. What you will usually get out of those scams are a lot of spam and a bunch of useless pdf’s that will tell you how to set-up your own scam website and sell the same ‘get rich quickly’ schemes. And you will wash $40+ down the toilet.

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