-------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Add your name to the CLEAN GOA INITIATIVE | | | | by visiting this link and following the instructions therein | | | | http://shire.symonds.net/pipermail/goanet/2005-October/033926.html | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear Cecil,
In a game, one cannot win if no one loses. MLMs, Plantations, Time-shares, recruitments, Salient or Japan Life all operate on the principle of "Early bird catches the fattest worm" The final downlines are the WORMS. When AMWAY collapses one day with a big bang, it will make ENRON appear like an insignificant meteorite. The signs are there...but who is looking for the signs. An organisation that prided itself in never advertising..and passing on the benefits to its consumer-members...is actually advertising now. Has any one noticed? I wrote in the newspapers that what Maxworth, Sterling, Teaquity, Anubhav, Rockland, Mehna, etc promised is non-deliverable. Almost everyone thought I was a nut. Some were honest enough to tell me so. But that is the truth. Indira had a slogan during the infamous Emergency " THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE FOR HARD WORK." That is the truth from which most Goans want to escape. They become the suckers. As in the title of one James Hardley Chase novel, "There is always a sucker." Plenty of them can be easily found in Goa. The job of the MLM is to find him or, rarely, her. Women have an intuition that works against a MLM. She may fall for you or your promises, not easily to that of a MLM. In mosquitos the males are harmless suckers. So also among human beings. Men are perpetual suckers. ..................................................... Cecil Pinto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote More Sting Operations needed and vigilance > Dear Floriano, So many Goans have been conned over the years by smooth > fly-by-night operators that it is a crying shame. The Economic Offences > Cell specially set up by the Government has not made any dent into their > activities. > In the early 90's we had the Finance Companies, mostly involving plantations, that took people for a ride. Unbelievably high rates of interest were offered and greedy Goans feel for the bait. Then came the Pyramid Schemes thinly disguised as Multi Level Marketing ;so many other fake MLMs that allowed you to make money from first buying into the scheme and then getting others into the scheme. > The classic case is the Magic Mattress scam in Porvorim . I have studied about all manners of con jobs in Goa extensively and even collaborated with Fred in writing an exhaustive cover article on these matters in Goa Today some few years back. But a sucker is born every moment. > Recently there was the brilliant Salient scheme Till date some of them still foolishly believe > they will get their money back. > Reports of conmen posing as recruitment agents appear almost every week in > the papers. But still there are no lack of takers when the same modus > operandi is used by the next conman. How foolish can one get? > The basic thing to remember is that a con scheme works on basic human > greed. We always want more for less. The con man spins that greed into his > earning. There is no substitute for hard work. There is no instant money. > There is no free meal. When will our people learn. > Cheers! > Cecil > ====== Viva Goa. Miguel -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | 1st Young Goans International Essay contest 2005 | | | | Theme: WHAT CAN I DO FOR GOA | | More details at | | http://shire.symonds.net/pipermail/goanet/2005-October/034190.html | --------------------------------------------------------------------------
