| I get probably fifty emails every day about some | | | | The thing is, every "guru" has a rags to riches |
| new-fangled way to make millions literally | | | | story to tell and they are all starting to sound the |
| overnight. For just $50 to $600 a month (or | | | | same. Some poor schmoe who has no internet |
| worse, just a one-time payment of $6500!), you | | | | knowledge whatsoever, turns on his computer, |
| too could have these secrets! Puh-lease! These | | | | and poof! he's a millionaire. The next day he's |
| guys are just scamming people and it's about to | | | | buying a big new home and is posing for his sales |
| make me sick. There is no fast track way to | | | | letter to tell everyone else how he made his |
| millions. Sure, if you get lucky with the new | | | | fortune. |
| Tickle-Me Elmo you might hit it big real fast, but | | | | The truth is that these gurus are full of bunk. |
| the honest to God truth is that it takes more | | | | There are real ways to make money out there, |
| than fifteen minutes a day and it sure takes | | | | but they do not give you ten websites for free, |
| more than one night to make it big. It just does. | | | | and they do not have some magic program |
| Google doesn't even crawl that fast. | | | | where you just press a button and whammo, |
| The latest scoundrel about blew my mind. A | | | | you're rolling in the cabbages. Doesn't happen and |
| fifteen page sales letter, fancy car pictures, and | | | | never will. |
| the man was posing by his fifty-foot catamaran. | | | | If you want to make money online, you have to |
| Overnight, supposedly, he made nearly half a | | | | do it right and not fall for the scammers. |
| million dollars. The check came in the mail the day | | | | Otherwise, you'll just spend a lot of money and |
| before his home was to go into foreclosure, and | | | | end up right where you started, looking for a real, |
| minutes before the repo guy was coming for his | | | | legit solution. And why waste that kind of time? |
| car. Sound believable? Not to me. | | | | |