Saturday, November 20, 2010

Blogging to the Bank review (AVOID)

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Rob Benwell's Blogging to the Bank has generated quite a few interesting comments over the past few months - mostly about not getting answers from support from the Blogging to the Bank staff about setting up their so-called "premium blogs". Not only that, but many of these people say that they keep getting promotions for OTHER products from Rob Benwell even though they can get NO supp

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Saturday, November 6, 2010

FTC Settles with Defendants that Claimed Bogus Ties to Google and Unlawfully Charged Consumers Hidden Fees

FTC 10/18/2010 News Release:
Google Money Tree Defendants Must Surrender Assets of More than $3.5 Million, Banned from Using ‘Negative Option’ Strategy to Automatically Bill Consumers
An online marketer that falsely claimed ties to Google Inc. has been forced to stop operations as part of a Federal Trade Commission action that charged the defendants with marketing an allegedly bogus work-at-home scheme and charging hidden monthly fees to consumers’ credit card and bank accounts.

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Common Persuasion Tactics In Fraud

Back in February of 2009, the FTC held a fraud forum which covered quite a bit of interesting information. But one thing that stood out for me was The Undercover Audiotapes Project which consisted of analysis of 300 undercover fraud tapes completed by AARP and the FINRA Investor Education Foundation in 2006 which identified the most common persuasion tactics used by con men by scam type.

The overall results were as follows:

Phantom Fixation (22.39%)
Scarcity (15.11%)
Source Credibility (1

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Saturday, September 25, 2010

FTC Testifies Before House Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust in the Digital Age

FTC Press Release: 9/16/2010

My Note: An interesting part of the testimony referenced in this press release is the following statement:

"In other words, although most of our enforcement actions involve conduct that violates either the Sherman or Clayton Acts, the FTC Act gives the Commission some additional leeway to block anticompetitive conduct that may not reach the level of a traditional antitrust violation. This authority is particularly useful in rapidly changing markets, where new techn

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Social Network Analysis, "Trusted Hubs", and Timelines

People ask me all the time, "Who can I trust who won't screw me over?" or "How do I know I can trust you?"

As to myself, I could point to things like:

The BBB using my research here
Or the National Consumers League referencing WorkAtHomeTruth here
Or the FTC letter I have sent to me thanking me for helping them on the In Deep Services case involving one of the top 100 spammers in the world according to the ROSKO database at the time (I spent A LOT Of time helping them on that).
Or document

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Friday, September 10, 2010

Rapid Automated Income review and analysis of sales page

When I did the Rapid Automated Income review and analysis of it's sales page I came across the strangest claim I'd ever seen:

"No Learning Required!"

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I can't even begin to imagine what that could possibly mean, can you?

Red-Flags based on the Rapid Automated Income review and analysis of it's sales page:

Rapid Automated Income Red-Flag #1) Nonsensical claim


The above claim o

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Online Cash System Secrets review and analysis of sales page (AVOID)

The Online Cash System Secrets review and analysis of it's sales page in the video you see below shows MANY red-flags at OnlineCashSystemSecrets.com that you should know about.

The red-flags are also in summary form beneath the video to help you identify those red-flags on Olnine Cash System quickly.



Online Cash System Secrets Red Flag #1)

OnlineCashSystemSecrets.com is using a template that many other questionable business opportunity sites have used.

Online Cash System Secret

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