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When you’ve just lately acquired an e-mail from a Nigerian Prince asking for a small sum of cash now to assist him out of a monetary bind, do not hassle. I’ve already paid it and must be receiving an expeditious reward within the type of gold bricks. It is an incredible feeling.
Thank goodness I did not fall for any scams. You are most likely conversant in them; The Ponzi scheme, for instance, whereby present buyers are paid solely by new buyers till the jig is up and the brand new buyers dry up. With out naming names, one very well-known monetary advisor used this ruse and Madoff with hundreds of thousands.