Keeping The Bastards Honest

I am soooo bored at the moment. I was going to write another post about scammers who lurk around the dating sites. Then I thought that would require research and time and … stuff it

I know why don’t I just bag Nick Marks seeing as he is the most commented marketer on this blog. Plus he is such an easy target. He is the scammer that just keeps giving.

Now I told you I am bored. Did I mention I am also lazy. So if you would like to add to this post feel free. I am just going to post some comments from readers who have enjoyed the Nick Marks experience with GSneaky.com and have posted on

Hey! Nick Marks I am Confused

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Hey guys,

Nick Marks is now peddling a system called “GSneeky”, and let me tell you I have never seen a bigger load of croak in all my 2 years on the Internet.

This guys has balls people! Truth in marketing now has a poster boy of what NOT TO DO. The system is a total joke and runs far, far away from it sales page claims.

Stay well away from this one people. It is loaded, and I mean loaded with upsell after upsell of total worthless garbage. Every link has more upsells with programs promising over night riches. I get emails promoting more junk daily. He probably sold the full record I gave at sign up.
What a low life!

After going over the material and having a good laugh, (he basically wants you to create a video and use traffic geyser to promote it), I set out for a refund.

He actually spends more time trying to get get the affiliate commission for traffic geyser, then the functionality of the “GSNEEKY” system.

He has purposely made it very difficult to get your money back as the support ticket system takes you for a wild ride, following link after link to submit a ticket that probably goes nowhere. I never did receive a confirmation.

Anyway, I invested a total of 50 bucs on the 9.95 “Gsneeky “sytsem and 39.95 on the useless upsell.

I don’t know how a guy could sleep at night offering these products to people with a straight face, let alone still be allowed to do business on the Internet.

I will make it my mission to discredit guys like Nick Marks that take advantage of people and use the Internet for fraud and dishonest salesmanship.

Thanks

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Hi Anthony,

I agree with you. GSneaky is tottally SUCKS! BIG TIME!

I’ve bought it few weeks ago and I am tottally PISSED OFF!

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Yes. Its totally rubbish.Dont buy nick marks product.Totally wasting your time + money.

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Hey guys, I so wish i had googled that pricks name and found this discussion a lot sooner. I was stupid enough to have purchased GSneaky about a month ago for $11.85 AUD and have just now checked my credit card statement online, only to find, that bastard has stolen another $112.00 AUD from me. Like you Anthony, I plan to make it my mission also to discredit
Nick Marks. Now im left with the trouble of sorting this out with my credit card company as conveniently his online support is offline and none of my many emails ive sent are being answered. I think its time i forgot about making money online because if thats how its done, im not prepared to rip people off.

Nuff Said !

Regards

Phil Miranda

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Thank you to everyone who read and contributed to this blog. I wish you all a Merry Christmas and hope 2010 will be a great year for all.
Normally at this time of year I try to write something relevant to the season. I find myself this year completely without inspiration. So I will leave this message from a very wise person.

THE MAN IN THE GLASS

When you get what you want in your struggle for self
And the world makes you king for a day,
Just go to a mirror and look at yourself,
And see what that man has to say.

For it isn’t your father or mother or wife,
Who judgment upon you must pass;
The fellow whose verdict counts most in your life
Is the one starring back from the glass.

He’s the fellow to please, never mind all the rest.
For he’s with you clear up to the end,
And you’ve passed the most dangerous, difficult test
If the man in the glass is your friend.

You may fool the whole world down the pathway of years.
And get pats on the back as you pass,
But your final reward will be the heartaches and tears
If you’ve cheated the man in the glass.

regards

Phil Miranda

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Did you know that over 10,000 people die in the U.S every day ? Did you realise there are over 6 billion people in the world and that all of them are going to die one day ?

What if everytime someone died you made money.

Well now you can. Welcome to http://www.flatline.die/ 

Pre-paid funerals are a multi billion dollar industry and now you can have a slice of this lucrative market. Our 6 foot under compensation plan is unique. The fast start bonus and 3 tier global bonus program ensures you an ongoing residual income.

For every person you sign up to one of Flatline’s pre-paid funeral plans you will receive $50 upon sign up and a whopping $997 on their demise.There is a plan to suit every budget, from our do it yourself cremation kit to the deluxe burial package complete with professional mourners.

Finally a product everybody needs and the perfect home based business. No need to bother friends or family members, no cold selling, no phone calls. Imagine seeing your inbox flooded with messages saying

” Congratulations, somebody you signed up died today ”

Simply find people who look old or sick and give them one of our professionally designed “you don’t look so well ” cards and we will do the rest. Or if you prefer simply leave the cards in a prominent position at the local tobacconist, fast food restaurant or United Airlines check in. The possiblities are endless.

Sign up today and receive these two ebooks absolutely free.

“Speeding up the aging process”  and

“50 ways to make it look like an accident”

So go to our website and sign up today ! and remember our company slogan:

“We are dying to make you money”

regards

The Flatline Team

Disclaimer: This post was made to highlight the lack of morals and ethics of most MLM companies. It is not intended to offend in any way. If you have lost a loved one recently please go HERE

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This site came through a solo ad, and I put it in my to do folder based on the ridiculous money making claims and the fact that it directed to a free website. I don’t know, I just figured if you are making that much money maybe you could buy a $10 domain name and a bit of hosting.

I mean you did spend $25 on a solo ad and you are going to make $9000 a month for the rest of your life for doing nothing.

” That’s Right Cash Every Month For Life Just By Sitting On The Couch. People All Over The World Just Like You Are Getting Paid Just To Sit On The Couch
And Do Nothing!

I’m Just An Average Guy And I Got Results In Two Weeks And You Can Even See The PROOF Here: http://www.4MinuteVideo.Weebly.com

Imagine Everything You Could Do With $9000 Every Single Month For Life! ”

Okay lets forget the free website and the hyped up sales pitch from an eager member. I am sure it is a good program. It’s called The Streamline Funnel System and it is run by Paul Birdsall so I am sure it is going to…….. Hang on a minute. Where have I heard that name before.

Ah Yes ! The rice and ketchup man. I wrote a post about him back in April, 2007 Pay it forward 4 profits I doubted at the time that Paul had eaten rice and ketchup for quite a while. Maybe I was right looking at this news story.

Paul Birdsall fined $83,000 for GST fraud 

Now I can hear some of you saying that just proves he makes a lot of money and you are right. Just have a look here and you will find some of the ways he makes money and his many satisfied customers.

www.scam.com

or

www.hubpages.com

or

www.beachbumcomm.com

or

www.bbb.org

Now if you have followed all those links you probably wont feel like joining this program straight away. Don’t worry though, because as Paul says on his website:

“It’s OK if you decide not to sign up today. I’ll still be here tomorrow. In fact, I have this domain registered through the year 2019 so I’m definitely planning on being around for a while…. ”

Oh by the way Paul. You better get Godaddy to fix up there technical error on your domain name.

Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. (http://www.godaddy.com)
Domain Name: STREAMLINEFUNNELSYSTEM.COM
Created on: 09-Jun-09
Expires on: 09-Jun-10
Last Updated on: 05-Aug-09

I guess they accidentally pressed the 0 instead of the 9 on the expiry date. Hey, an easy mistake to make but one you should get fixed. Just in case anyone spots it and thinks you are telling fibs.

So there you have it. Money for nothing, Yet again. I love the internet. I don’t know how we ever got rich without it.

regards

Phil Miranda

webmaster of philmir.com and not philmiranda.com

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Want to: “earn $40,000 a month from adsense without lifting a finger?”

Want to:” Make Money Online, Make Money From Home! Here’s your chance to make $40,000 per month from this Website by being lazy.”

Lazy and Stupid ? No worries.
“Even a monkey can set this adsense website up.”

Just a small sample of the salespage for Adsense Big run by one Adam Carn aka designer_uk of ebay fame?

Adam decided to work on the little known yet highly effective business model that if one website makes you $10 a month then 100 would make you $1000 a month and 1000 would make you $10,000 a month. This is brilliant !

In fact the next time I build a home instead of 10 men who took 10 days to build it I am going to get 100 men who will only take 1 day. Or better still I might get 1000 men so it can be ready by Morning Tea.

Anyway back to adsensebig.com. If you think it doesn’t work just have a look at this proof from the salespage:

That’s nearly 250 Million page views in the month or to break it down nearly 6000 per minute or 100 per second. Now I know why he doesn’t include hosting with this offer. And to think, not only did he get all this traffic by being lazy, but he is going to give you the exact same 1600 page site he uses all for only $297 $97.

Plus, don’t forget, we all know how much Google likes duplicate content so it doesn’t matter how many people buy it.

Don’t believe it ? Look what one satisfied customer had to say:

” Never have I spent my money on something better than this website. I still can’t believe it. I make more than $5000 a month and it’s only been 2 months since I setup this site. It’s crazy because I don’t even run it, it’s running all by itself. You know what, you shouldn’t give away the adsense website for $297, it makes it look cheap. You should increase the price a bit because it’s worth a lot more than that….”

“Its running all by itself.”

Absolutely brilliant. I think I might purchase the website 10 times and make $400,000 a month. Is that being to greedy?

Delivering sarcasm since forever

Phil Miranda

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It’s about time is all I can say.

OPRAH & DR. OZ SUING OVER ‘FALSE’ AÇAÍ BERRY ENDORSEMENT CLAIMS

Winfrey and Oz have filed law suits against 40 companies (some of them MLM) selling açaí or other  products, with their name endorsements on them. The lawsuit says companies are “fabricating quotes or falsely using Ms. Winfrey’s & Oz’s name about brands they never endorsed.”  They don’t endorse dozens of açaí berry products claiming their seal of approval so it is lawsuit time!
Dr. Oz said on Good Morning America, “Many Americans have seen images of me, and Oprah and others supporting, it would appear, products that actually don’t work in the ways that are described,” Oz said in an exclusive interview Thursday with ABC’s “Good Morning America.” “And more importantly, when consumers trusting us try to buy these products over the Web, what they end up getting are fake products, pills that don’t really have what’s promised in them. They’re often duped into paying more than they should. If my picture is next to a product, endorsing it and supporting your purchase of it, I did not give them permission.”

FULL STORY HERE

Now while I am no expert when it comes to losing weight, I have noticed however, that what works best for me is when I put less in my mouth rather than more.

regards

Phil Miranda

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Many people assume that I am totally against Multi Level Marketing. That is not exactly true. What I don’t like is the general attitude that it is the individuals fault if they are not successful. It never seems to occur to anyone that maybe the product, training or compensation plan maybe at fault.

There are also those people who are never going to make a success of MLM no matter how much training you give them. I might add at this point that if you are someone who has tried MLM unsuccessfully it doesn’t mean that you are a failure. Maybe it is not for you for any number of reasons.

Now getting to this picture. I would imagine we have all seen work from home ads posted around the shops or light poles and the like. There are a number of problems with this particular add.

Firstly, do you believe this person can show you how to make $10,000 a month? It states ” Full Training” Do you think any self respecting Mentor would have told them to place such an unprofessional looking ad. (The photo doesn’t do it justice. It actually looks worse than this)

This is a major problem with MLM and Internet Marketing that focuses primarily on building a downline and less on selling a service or product. This person wants to make $10.000 a month working from home. Fair enough. Who doesn’t? Problem is that before they can make any money they have to convince you that they are already.

Another issue is that someone who joins this person’s downline is unlikely to get any useful mentoring and given that they responded to such a crappy looking ad are unlikely to have the mindset that would help make them successful.

So the whole process just repeats itself ad nauseum, as people jump from one program to another and the program owners find new and ingenious ways to convince you that their program is easy.

That is the issue I have with MLM online and always have had. The suggestion that it is easy to make money online, easy to get signups and if it doesn’t work it must be your fault.

In closing I want to add this. There is nothing wrong with wanting a better lifestyle and more money. If you have tried to achieve that online and have not been successful please don’t blame yourself and don’t do what I did when I first started out. I believed that everyone was making money except me and got very depressed.

I totally lost focus on what was important in my life. Society has and probably will always judge success in monetary terms and the Internet is full of people who when challenged are glad to tell you how much money they make and how many Cars and boats they own.

Even if it is true is that success? Maybe you have been through some difficult physical, emotional or financial problems and come through them with grace and dignity. That to me is success. We are not all born with the same skills and opportunities so be proud of your achievements and try not to compare them to other peoples. Only you know how hard you have worked to be where you are today so be proud and don’t let the 20% of your life that isn’t the way you want it to be, to ruin the 80% that is.

regards

Phil Miranda (not doing Cash Gifting)

ps: The website advertised in the picture does not appear to be active anymore. Who is to blame? The Mentor or the Mentored? You tell me.

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Some people just don’t know when to keep quiet or just cop it sweet. I replied back in early June to a spam email from a self proclaimed “Professional Internet Network Marketer” by the name of Jim Vigilante. Jimmy was trying to flog a piece of crap called Copynprofit and stated at the end of the email.

“You have signed up for one of my programs, you are on my customer contact list, to be rem*oved, just reply to this message and put Remove in the subject or body of the message.  You are not on a lead list and your info is not being sold or shared.  I did not buy your info, I don’t buy leads.”
So I wrote back and said:

Hey Jimmy
 
“If I “signed up for one of your programs and I am on your customer contact list” how come you didn’t use my name in the email. What, ten years of marketing and you can’t personalise an email ? Want to show me when and where I signed up?
Don’t buy leads. Yeh right !
regards
 
Phil ”

Now bear in mind I was just venting and like everyone else I get lots of spam. Not all of it however has so much crap at the end of it about why I am receiving it. I had forgotten about it until I received a response 6 weeks later.

“You signed up for WowzzaPower and I didn’t use your name because Group Mail makes it too difficult to import the names.
 
Glad you are on top of it keeping us all safe from eMail we didn’t want, can you do something about all the Drug and Software eMail I get?
 
I don’t think you’re making much of a dent, as unfortunate as that is.

Jim Vigilante “                  

Lets analyse Jim Bobs response.                  

I signed up for Wozza Power ? Even if it was free I wouldn’t join that piece of garbage, but it isn’t free. This from their FAQ’s
Q. Can I join the Wowzza! Social Network for Free?
A. No, all members pay our $32.95 monthly fee. This cost is for Wowzza! it is not for WowzzaPower! which we include at no extra cost.                  

As far as Group Mail makes it too difficult to import the names.

That doesn’t look to hard to me. Then again I am not a “Professional Internet Network Marketer”.

The rest of Jimmbo’s response with regard to spam is obviously an attempt at sarcasm and displays his arrogance and lack of professionalism.

Unfortunately I can’t do anything about all the drug and software email he gets but I will give the spambots something to feed on.

jim@vigilantemarketing.com

jimmyv@opportunityseekers.com

jimv700@gmail.com

and finally

Jimmyv@forestgump.com

no regards

Phil Miranda

Disclaimer: The use of the title Forest Gump and the associated phrase is in no way meant to be demeaning in any way shape or form to the character portrayed by Tom Hanks. I am sure Forest is much smarter than your average Professional Internet Network Marketer.

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I figured it was about time for another post and rather than use my list of sites I have yet to write about, I thought I would just check out Work from Home Scams on Google.

Taking Google’s suggestions I ended up on the results page for (Work from home scam/s exposed)

In the first position for organic (Non Paid) websites was this site http://www.scammer-alert.com/

The site is registered to LDJ Networks, Inc. and is supposedly run by one Frank Mathews. Try a Google search on that name and see how many results you get LOL

As usual the site gives the normal garbage about testing sites for X amount of years, and how I got tired of being scammed and how I made this website to help others, blah blah blah.

Okay lets have a look at a just a few of the sites Frank does recommend.

First up in the data entry category we have National Data Entry which to my trained eye just looks like any other data entry site and is featured on ripoffreport.com, scam.com and complaintsboard.com

Oh well maybe we should check out the Make Money Online Category. Here we come up with Underground Cash Secret a site which I was going to do a post on but then figured, if you can’t see this is a scam then no post by me is going to change your mind. This site is also featured on ripoffreport.com, scam.com and complaintsboard.com as well as many others.

Alright maybe his paid survey links are good. Lets see Big Cash surveys, Survey scout, paid surveys. I am not even going to bother listing all the sites that report these as scams.

It is also interesting to note that all the sites I checked which Frank Mathews recommends are hosted on the same small server. What are the odds on that ?

Scammer-alert.com  The name says it all.

So my point is how do you trust someone who claims site A, B and C are scams but D and E are not. Simple. You don’t. Trust no one and do your own research. It makes it hard when sites like this come up position one on Google but if you do a little research you will realise what I have been writing about for years.

Can you trust me? It doesn’t really matter now does it. Why? I am not trying to sell you anything. That is the whole point of this blog and one of the reasons I do not promote paid programs.

regards

Phil Miranda

ps: I know it has been a while since posts and I apologise for not listing all the links to the negative feedback. I have so much on at the moment, plus it is good to do your own research.

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Yes its that time again. Time for my monthly bitch session. This time it is Entrecard that gets its own post on my blog.

Regular readers may have noticed I no longer run Entrecard Ads on my blog but have replaced it with clixgalore which offers many free affiliate programs to promote.

Entrecard was, I thought a good way to promote your blog. In a nutshell you bought ads on other blogs by displaying ads on your blog using what they called EC credits. You could buy credits but most people just earned them by visiting other blogs and doing what is called a drop to show you had been there.

It was in effect bloggers helping bloggers. Then they decided to introduce paid ads. Now bear in mind that the advertisers were paying entrecard and not the blog owners. Blog owners could get paid based on their activity level in earning Entrecard credits.

The problem with that system is with a site like mine that gets a large percentage of search engine traffic everyone else was benefiting but me. There is a reason I don’t run paid ads on my blog, such as adsense or bidvertiser. That is because most of them would be advertising the very types of programs that I tell everyone to steer clear of.

No problem. I just go to my dashboard and turn off the paid ads. It worked fine for a while and then paid ads started randomly appearing on my blog again.

Well I like to think :) I am a reasonable person so I sent in a support ticket:

“Can you please tell me why this paid ad is appearing on my blog. I have set my account so as not to recieve paid ads and this particular site is in direct opposition to my blog. In fact it is the very type of site I warn my readers to beware of.http://adn.entrecard.com/click?spot=7141&ad=422&type=paidhttp://www.productsupplycenter.com/web258478/
Just for the record. I have not allowed paid ads on my blog because I get alot of search engine traffic and other sources apart from entrecard and with your current system everyone benefits but me. regards
Phil Miranda “ . That was on the 29th of May and I also sent a reminder on the 11th of June. The current status is open and awaiting staff response.Now for anyone who thinks I am being harsh bear in mind this. When I had no unpaid Entrecard blogs to advertise I once again found paid ads on my blog. This is unlikely to happen by accident or by a programing problem.

That was on the 29th of May and I also sent a reminder on the 11th of June. The current status is open and awaiting staff response.Now for anyone who thinks I am being harsh bear in mind this. When I had no unpaid Entrecard blogs to advertise I once again found paid ads on my blog. This is unlikely to happen by accident or by a programing problem.So to Entrecard’s Staff ? and founder Graham Langdon. Thanks for ignoring my support ticket, running paid ads on my blog, and turning what was a good idea into a money hungry grab for cash. Well done !

Ahh ! I feel much better now.

By the way Entrecard. Consider my support ticket closed.

And another thing. If you want to mention that there were problems with your support centre or your program then put it in an email and mail it to 3 weeks ago when I might have cared.

regards

Phil Miranda (Don’t get mad get even)

ps: It seems looking at their forum, I am not the only one having problems with support at Entrecard. It also appears that posting on their forum doesnt help. One poor bugger has 10 open tickets dating back to April 30. LOL

Update 28th July:

After 8 weeks they have the hide to send me this ? I might add that they still didn’t answer the question.

“This message is regarding your Ticket ID #SMQ-848328. We are changing the status of this ticket to ‘Closed’ as we have not received a response from you in 48 hours.”

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