Don't fall for pyramid schemes to make money on the web.

Pyramid schemes like the ones that send you to www.lynoville.info (there's always an affiliate ID attached to the address and you will not be able to get into the website unless you click on a link affiliate ID,) have made me angry ever since I fell for one in my early twenties. I was approached by co-workers and they convinced me that if I gave them $25, I could make back $50. The scheme was exposed on the evening news and collapsed a week after I joined.

Rule #1 - You'll never join this type of scheme early enough

I've been getting a bunch of the www.lynoville.info address emails, and I'd been getting "gift giving" emails. Normally, I wouldn't even read emails coming to this email address, because it was set up to capture junk emails. But I'd just submitted my sites to a bunch of directories and needed to check the mail.

After reading many teaser one paragraph, come on "click here" emails, I finally got an email that had a great sales pitch, and I'm a sucker for a great sales pitch page. I'd tried entering the site before, so I knew I had to use the affiliate link, and I did.

It asked for my name, email address and phone number. So I gave them my name, junk catcher email address and cell phone number and clicked again.

Rule #2 - Set up two free email addresses, one with Google, one with Yahoo. Keep the Google email address pristine, use the Yahoo address for junk.

And then I hit, "The Overnight Cash System" website. This is a slick, multi-media site that immediately launched a professionally made video. Just the sound caught my attention. I worked for a radio station and I know what goes into sound editing. The video was sharp and clean. The page itself was built to sell. After you confirmed your email address, you could download "the system" .pdf and their obligatory over-valued free gifts. I downloaded the .pdf file and steam began to pour out of my ears. I knew I had to write this article to warn people about this ponsy scheme.

They are calling it - Gift Giving - send $500 up the line as a gift and let people know about the program and they'll send you $500 as a gift. Even worse, they want you to send cash via overnight delivery, which means if you join and it bombs or is flagged by the Justice Department, you're out $500 because there's no way to track the money. And that's just the entry level amount.

Rule #3 - Only people at the top make money, refer to Rule #1

Three hours later I got a phone call from the person who's affiliate link I clicked on asking me what I though of his website. That was an extremely short conversation.

Don't fall for sucker schemes like this. Only a few people benefit and you won't be one of them.

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What if you had access to a company that could help stretch
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you check it out?

What if this company also offered an exciting, ground floor
opportunity (really!) where you will make money whether you
recruit people or not? Would you check it out?

What if I then told you that my direct upline signed a
contract to put 5,000 people each month into the business,
UNDER US, so we earn money on their recruiting efforts?Then I
told you that I joined this commitment to add an additional 100
per month personally under me!Wouldn't you want a piece of
that?

If the answer to any of these is YES, then let me tell you
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