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2025-02-13 01:42:11
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Scam
What exactly is a scam? It’s actually quite simple—most scams share some main traits:
1. Deception – This includes lying, making false claims, or hiding key information to make something look better than it really is.
2. Unsustainability – The system itself is flawed or doomed to collapse sooner or later.
3. Goal-Oriented – The ultimate aim is to transfer your money into the scammer’s pocket.
There are many types of scams, like romance scams and financial frauds, but the worst ones combine both. Today, we’ll focus on large-scale, organized financial scams.
The goal of a financial scam is simple: move money from the victims to the scammers. But just because you lose money doesn’t automatically mean it’s a scam—bad investments exist too. The key difference? Scams rely on a broken model that isn’t sustainable.
Here are some typical red flags of financial scams:
1. Promised high or guaranteed returns – If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
2. Controlled environment – A small group manipulates the system, changes the rules whenever they want, or disappears with the money.
3. Lack of transparency – You never fully understand how it actually works.
4. Sustainability issue – If the model can’t last long-term, it’s bound to fail.
Not every scam has all four, but the key question is always: Does the system actually work logically, or is it just moving money around?
Two Common Types of Financial Scams:
1. Pyramid Schemes (Multi-Level Marketing Fraud)
You have to recruit new people to earn money.
Early participants get paid using the money from newer recruits.
The system grows exponentially, meaning once recruitment slows down, it collapses.
Example: If everyone needs to recruit 4 new people:
Level 1: 4 people
Level 2: 16 people
Level 3: 64 people
By Level 10: Over 1 million people needed!
This is the power of exponentials. This kind of structure is mathematically impossible to sustain forever. Once new members stop joining, the system collapses.
2. Ponzi Schemes (Fake Investments)
Unlike pyramid schemes, you don’t have to recruit anyone.
Scammers promise steady returns, but in reality, they are just paying old investors with new investors’ money.
No actual investment or business is generating profits—it’s just money being shuffled around.
Why does it fail?
If the people running it were really making so much money, why would they need your investment?
Eventually, they run out of new investors, and the whole thing collapses.
Always think logically—where is the money really coming from? If the system only works when more people join, it’s not an investment, it’s a time bomb.