Hey Don Lapre: I’m Calling You Out On Your Bu$%#$it!

You’ve seen this clown’s 30-minute ads if you ever spent a late night watching the boob tube! His tricky ads (Making Money Secrets and Greatest Vitamin in the World) promised you the world (and a new mansion, new car, thousands a week, and much more). “All you have to do,” he said, is buy “my low-priced” package (which he didn’t mention how much it really was). Well, it was later “discovered” that he was the only one making money (big shocker), not any of the knuckleheads who bought into his silly crap.

This type of “guru scam” has become very popular, and it is being used across the whole array of advertising mediums (in the paper, bookstores, TV, radio [especially radio] etc.) to steal money from people who are too freaking greedy to realize that they are being taking for a ride, right in front of their unsuspecting faces! So, how can you tell if these guys are trying steal from you? The answer: their lips are moving (yes, it’s that simple).

These self-professing “gurus” are sick predators who pull off these elaborate scams and frauds by selling unviable products, while knowing darn well that the large majority of people won’t even make their money back from purchasing their way into the “money-making” lifestyle. These con men take advantage of people’s vanity, and if you want to keep yourself from getting burnt you’d better look out for these following clues:

The Passive Income Hoax. You will not, I repeat will not make money from doing nothing — this is an easy sale to these scammers because a lot of lazy people are looking for the easy way to wealth (the truth: there is none). If you believe these liars and go with one of their “money for nothing’’ scams, they will make “your” money but not the other way around. If you do it after reading this, you are a stupid dumbass!

Spamming is for scamming. If your brain works, then spam should trigger the same signals a skeptical deer, in a hunter’s backyard, uses around a salt lick. No reputable business will use this anymore (period) but instead will work extra hard to earn your business by publishing online articles, working on their site’s search engine results, and providing you with valuable content. So, the first sign of the online scam artist is his spam! If it’s in your mailbox either delete it, report it or reply back to them with a nasty letter.

Their site will give up clues. What do you look for to determine if a company is legit, you ask? Well, first read their site’s content — is it focused on you, the potential customer? Does it provide you with any relevant information, or just a sad sales pitch? Is it trying to bring you in for a “free” seminar without any other way of contacting the company? Is there a clear roadmap of how it intends to deliver on their promises? If they aren’t attempting any of this: run, Forrest, run!

Although these clues may sound like they only happen online, you should really be aware of scammers in every part of your daily life. These guy’s sick ads are everywhere: in the back of magazines, on most radio stations, TV infomercials, and definitely in the self-help section at the bookstores (they are called self-help for a reason: the writer is helping himself, not you)! If you live by the code that there are a lot of people out there who want to separate you from your money the easiest way possible, you’ll be able to spot these hucksters in a second. If not, you better learn (they’re not going away anytime soon)!

Hey Don: I smelled you coming from a mile away, and didn’t bite — sorry! Hope they take care of you in prison, for the people that did!