Comments on: Scams abound http://salemoregonrealestatehomes.com/2009/03/09/scams-abound/ The home truth and nothing but the truth Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:24:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: amy http://salemoregonrealestatehomes.com/2009/03/09/scams-abound/#comment-259 amy Tue, 10 Mar 2009 01:03:36 +0000 http://salemoregonrealestatehomes.com/?p=1601#comment-259 On the one hand, I agree that it's a shameful thing that so many of our brothers and sisters see a time of plight not as an opportunity to give and assist, but rather to take for others themselves. That's greed, but you know what? It's that same sense of greed that makes so many people fall for these scams. But on the other hand... My parents taught me that you don't get something for nothing. If it sounds to good to be true, it probabyly is. Where has all this common sense gone? When I see adds prompting me to pay $249 for a real estate sales program where I buy properties with other people's money and profit profit profit, or pay whatever for this book and find out how to get FREE money, or any of the other scams that are out there, I simply shake my head and wonder how many people have fallen for it. But do I feel sorry for them? That's a hard question to answer. Compassion, perhaps, for I know taking a loss or being lied to really hurts, emotionally and in this case often fiscally. But if we aren't smart enough to know certain things, then the hard lesson will teach us. Facebook and Google both are AWASH with the ads screaming "I just got my $12k stimulus check from the government! Find out how you can, too!" I wish the advertisers would refuse to take the ads, but of course they don't because they want to profit. Greed. I go back and reread this and I sound just like I imagine my parents would. ha! I'm still a few years from 40! (BTW, great blog. Thanks for the great local real estate info.) On the one hand, I agree that it’s a shameful thing that so many of our brothers and sisters see a time of plight not as an opportunity to give and assist, but rather to take for others themselves. That’s greed, but you know what? It’s that same sense of greed that makes so many people fall for these scams.

But on the other hand… My parents taught me that you don’t get something for nothing. If it sounds to good to be true, it probabyly is. Where has all this common sense gone?

When I see adds prompting me to pay $249 for a real estate sales program where I buy properties with other people’s money and profit profit profit, or pay whatever for this book and find out how to get FREE money, or any of the other scams that are out there, I simply shake my head and wonder how many people have fallen for it.

But do I feel sorry for them? That’s a hard question to answer. Compassion, perhaps, for I know taking a loss or being lied to really hurts, emotionally and in this case often fiscally. But if we aren’t smart enough to know certain things, then the hard lesson will teach us.

Facebook and Google both are AWASH with the ads screaming “I just got my $12k stimulus check from the government! Find out how you can, too!” I wish the advertisers would refuse to take the ads, but of course they don’t because they want to profit.

Greed.

I go back and reread this and I sound just like I imagine my parents would. ha! I’m still a few years from 40!

(BTW, great blog. Thanks for the great local real estate info.)

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