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Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu
Richard.,
I would NEVER go in for anything that you may hear of, or have pamphlets on.
There are so many scams going on out there, they are very professional about it.
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The trouble is, a lot of people only seem to check if any pamphlets look professional and the company has a decent looking website.
Why is this a problem? Anyone who has a copy of Word that they are halfway competent with could knock up a professional looking pamphlet, take it to a local print shop and run off several thousand copies for a few pounds.
While most people probably couldn't knock their own website (although it's actually fairly easy), most domain hosting services have some sort of template site people can copy and adapt. So, they can set up a professional looking site in minutes.. Again, it costs a few pounds to set up, plus a few pounds a month for bandwidth. Send out 1,000 pamphlets and if as little as a few dozen people fall for it (which is actually likely), you are in profit.
Add an email spam campaign, where you can send emails to a few million people for a few pounds, and you increase your profit exponentially.
My Advice?
I recommend people do a Google search for the company name. While these companies are often good at jigging the results so their websites appear near the top of the results, more often than not, in the first couple of pages of results, you'll find at least one site complaining about the scam, if it is a scam..
If a deal looks too good to be true, it probably is.