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Internet MLM scams seem to be everywhere.
At Mentoring For Free, we teach people to avoid MLM scams and bad MLM companies. It is just a small piece of the valuable free skills training that we teach.
I am going to show you one of the simplest techniques to avoid being scammed.
All you have to do is some simple Google research. When looking at a program, just Google the program and the people running it as a scam.
Here is an example using BurnLounge. Your Google search would look like this.
“BurnLounge” scam
I put BurnLounge in quotes, not because it had to be, but just as a reminder to you that anytime you have a company with two or more words in the name or a persons name, then you use the quotes to avoid unwanted search results.
Now you have your search results on – “BurnLounge” scam. When the results are a huge number of pages you pretty much no you have a scam already. But remember that these results do not always find a scam.
These results simply have the name you put in quotes and the word scam on the same page. So someone could be using scam on their page to get attention. Or they may be telling you that this is not a scam.
Read the results on page one. More if you need too. You will find people claiming a scam and possibly some defending the company or person as not being a scam. Real scams will have overwhelming results suggesting a scam.
You will almost always get Google results even on the cleanest companies. Read your results.
The reason I chose BurnLounge to use as an example is because they are no longer in business. Secondly the evidence of a scam was huge. Very recently the company websites disappeared from the internet.
When this publicly traded company launched, I quickly realized that they met the definition of an illegal pyramid. Don’t let the fact that a company is publicly traded trick you into thinking that this fact makes them legal. It doesn’t.
The Federal Trade Commission (Wired) stepped in a year or so later and said the same thing. BournLounge disagreed for about 2 days before eliminating the MLM compensation plan and avoiding going to court.
There are so many programs on the internet that if you did a search on the company’s, you would be shocked at all the reports from people claiming to have been scammed.
The same holds true for individuals. Try this google search.
“phil piccolo” scam
Now I don’t know Phil. Only know what I see on the internet. But if I did this search then I would not be involved with him. It is just that simple. I don’t want to take a chance. Maybe you read these same Google search results and decide there is no problem. So we may each see things differently. You get to decide.
Hopefully you will start doing some basic research like this before spending your time and money on scams. You are going to be amazed how many new programs come along that are being run by people with many scam complaints against them.
You will also be amazed at how many people running new programs have no internet identity except what it says about them on the company website. How can that be?
Happy Googling.
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July 19th, 2008 at 2:49 am
Maybe you are already aware of this…but your readers need to understand something…
Internet Marketers will take any company, especially the popular ones and tag the word “Scam” to it in order to get the reader to click on their ad or site. This is especially true for people that are making Adsense Sites where they are trying to intice a click, so that the reader will then click on a Google Ad that they get paid for. These marketers could care less whether or not the Scam Allegation is true or not. You’ll also see these terms a lot: “Get the Truth” “Don’t Join xyz until…” “The Truth About….” . That Kinda thing.
A better way is to go to Technorati and research what people are really saying in their blogs about a company. Which is how I found this blog. Cheers…