• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Because they believe they can get something for nothing if they can just follow the right rules the right way.

    And many of them end up paying thousands of dollars to learn the “secrets.”

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      5 months ago

      This is the key. Like a lot of other such scams and conspiracies they are either by design or just “evolution” geared towards exploiting desperate and or uncritical people for the profit of snake oil salesmen.

      Like a lot of e-mail scams it actually helps if you can weed out any person that could waste your time or spread knowledge to others early in the process.