{"id":1377,"date":"2008-04-08T19:40:53","date_gmt":"2008-04-09T01:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sequence-inc.com\/fraudfiles\/2008\/04\/08\/why-do-people-fall-for-these-scams\/"},"modified":"2013-02-25T15:58:18","modified_gmt":"2013-02-25T21:58:18","slug":"why-do-people-fall-for-these-scams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/why-do-people-fall-for-these-scams\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Do People Fall For These Scams?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was just reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2008\/03\/17\/surprise-the-buxto-pyramid-scheme-is-a-fraud\/trackback\/\">on TechCrunch<\/a> about a scam called <a href=\"http:\/\/bux.to\/?r\">Bux.to<\/a> that looks poised to fold. Members are complaining that they are not being paid the money they&#8217;ve earned. The site shows some comments from supposed members who say they&#8217;ve been paid, but it&#8217;s sketchy whether or not that&#8217;s real.<\/p>\n<p>Bux.to is your typical Ponzi Scheme (or pyramid scheme, if you prefer). The scheme offers you<strong> one cent<\/strong> each time you watch a 30-second advertisement. You also get <strong>one cent<\/strong> each time someone you recruit into the scheme watches a 30-second advertisement.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Basic math leads us to the first hint that this might be a pyramid scheme. You could watch a maximum of 120 ads in an hour, netting you $1.20. Not exactly a living wage. So it&#8217;s made abundantly clear that the only way you could really make money in the scam is through recruiting others to watch ads. But can you imagine how many people you&#8217;d need to recruit and how many ads they&#8217;d need to watch in order for you to make any money? Laughable!<\/p>\n<p>This scam is so silly! And they&#8217;re offering sign-up bonuses of <strong>five cents<\/strong>. Hello!<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t the first &#8220;get paid to surf&#8221; scam that has left members hanging without their payments. This type of scam is simply one of those &#8220;if it sounds too good to be true&#8230;&#8221; kind of things. Legitimate advertisers aren&#8217;t interested in running ads that are just viewed by people who are getting paid to sit there and look at web pages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was just reading on TechCrunch about a scam called Bux.to that looks poised to fold. Members are complaining that they are not being paid the money they&#8217;ve earned. The site shows some comments from supposed members who say they&#8217;ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1186,184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ponzi-schemes","category-pyramid-schemes-mlm"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Z0e-md","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}