Archive for the ‘Pyramid Selling Scams’ Category

This chain letter scam has been around for a while now. One of the distinguishing features is the claim that it’s somehow endorsed by Oprah Winfrey, or was featured on the Oprah show.

Yeah, right… to denounce it as a scam!

Here’s a recent (2010) copy of the usual PayPal $6 email sent to prospective suckers (and, further down the page, transcripts from a successful court case by the FTC for an identical scam that should make alarming reading for anyone kidding themselves that this scam is legal and ethical, etc):

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