The great treatment scam

Monday, June 23, 2003

Scams are everywhere. I get offers for practically everything in my mailbox everyday and on my computer as well. When they come via e-mail, it's called spam; unsolicited e-mails usually trying to sell us something we don't need or want and doesn't work if we did. Everything from male and female sexual enhancement pills, to psychic interventions, to making ten thousand dollars a day working from home. The reason why this happens and, in fact, continues to escalate, is because the senders know there are enough gullible people out there that will buy these products that it makes it worth their time and their investment to reach as many people as possible. Most of them even carry a money-back guarantee because they're aware of the research that says that a great majority of people who purchase products from a distance, won't take the time to repackage the product and send it back for a refund, even though it doesn't do what it's supposed to do.

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