JPCass
join:2001-01-23
Denver, CO
| reply to xdeadhead
Re: pt barnum was right
This also shows why any effort to solve online problems - whether scams, spam, viruses, etc. - simply by "educating" users, is doomed to fail. Not only is there a fairly significant portion of users who appear to be incurably gullible; but there is also a constant flow of newbies who may be fooled once and never again, but still provide enough initial fodder to keep scams and schemes going. |
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some guy
@66.84.x.x
| educate thyself
don't know what you are doing? find out. ignorance is an excuse for being lazy. with search engines being as easy to use as they are, there is no excuse for ignorance
as for scams, if it's about money for little or no work, it's a scam. period. |
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winky
Turn Left At The Moon
join:2001-02-11
Saint Louis, MO
| You got that right. From time to time I mail out post cards for my business to make sure I stay busy (or else my wife starts thinking of things like painting the living room, etc.)
I always have my website listed along with my email address and phone. I always ask if they looked up my website. To date 100% have said NO. I find that unbelievable, but that's just me. There IS one born every minute and they are everywhere, and apparently breeding.
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If you can break it,I can fix it.Of course, It'll cost ya' |
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footballdude
Premium
join:2002-08-13
Imperial, MO
| said by winky  :my wife starts thinking of things like painting the living room Smear paint all over the ceiling and the trim work. I did that in our bedroom and she hasn't asked me to paint again. |
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netbuxsheep
@ucsc.edu
| reply to some guy
yeah, I've had jobs that pay more with about the same amount of work. The reasons I initially decided to try netbux were:
1) I only had to give an email adress
2) I didn't have to pay to do it
3) It didn't seem all that great (less than 5 bucks an hour is bellow minimum wage.)
I basically just figured that I would search while brushing my teeth, thus getting paid below minimum wage for something I had been nothing for before (plus it made me brush my teeth a little longer, which was good).
Right now I just waiting for confirmation either way for whether this is a scam or not. until I know, I'm not even going to search while brushing my teeth. |
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SAMEguy
@ucsc.edu | oh yeah, and I had made it up to $6.00. I better not get scammed out of this fortune! |
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Karl Bode
News Guy
join:2000-03-02 | reply to netbuxsheep
See look at this. It's the same for every one of these scams....bunch of guys irritating everyone on the internet with "gee shucks got nothin' to lose" mentalities.... |
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CorNEILiuZ
@donc.blu | reply to some guy
I thought it was to good to be true found this forum using google. people gettin suckered really should research this stuff first. |
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NetbuxSheep
@ucsc.edu
| reply to Karl Bode
"See look at this. It's the same for every one of these scams....bunch of guys irritating everyone on the internet with "gee shucks got nothin' to lose" mentalities...."
What? this is the first post I've made about netbux... how would a "bunch of guys" like me irritate everyone? |
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NetbuxSheep
@ucsc.edu
| reply to CorNEILiuZ
"I thought it was to good to be true found this forum using google. people gettin suckered really should research this stuff first."
Yeah, I did research it. I couldn't find anything until I was about 5 dollars into it (then for some reason I was able to find scam reporting sites where something other than "SCAM!" was posted). Because I researched it and found that the netbux site was fairly new, I decided to only do it during time when I was already busy (brushing my teeth)so as not to lose any time that I would normally spend doing other things. The only people I talked to about this site were a couple of my freinds, and I also told them to wait until I found out if anyone actually would get paid before signing up(unless they were interested in brushing their teeth and searching as well).
To tell you the truth, I actually profited from this because while I was doing searches, I was brushing my teeth a little longer than usual, which is something I needed to get into the habit of doing. |
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