Typical loser that I am, I believed that I would be able to finally get myself out of debt, work at home to be with my kids (since my wife died) and start to maybe enjoy life a bit, but NO! These folks are the worst kind of predator there is: they prey on your dreams, your aspirations, the very core of your existence and dangle it in front of you as bait so you'll be blinded by something that would otherwise look too good to be true. You actually want it to be true so you can have a chance to be or do what you've always wanted.
I hope that not only will these people get what they deserve, but also the companies that allow them to operate: the credit card merchants, the shopping cart application people, the web hosting sites: they need to go down with them.
This type of thing will continue until the folks who support them are convicted of fraud also. If I'm with someone who kills someone else, I am an accessory to murder. If I'm an internet web hosting site and one of my web-sites is a hub for drug dealing and contacts, I go to jail.
But if I'm an Internet web-hosting site and help people steal other people's money, I am not responsible because I put a set of "rules" on my site that says I can have some of the money that was stolen from you and I get to keep it because I don't care where it comes from.
Guess what, folks: it's wrong and everyone knows it. It reminds me of something an old man told me when I was about 10 years old. I asked him why his wife had been sick all her life, and he said it was because nobody could help with the problem she had. Later on, when I found out she was raped as a child, Grandpa told me this:
"Rape will continue until the men of this world stop it."
So, folks, fraud will continue until we stop it.
We have a great saying where I work: " none of us is as strong as all of us". If we all want to, we can put an end to this.
Ken
Round Rock, Texas
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