Are get-rich-quick schemes on the internet legitimate?
A. No. Any time a post says “this is perfectly and completely legal,” it is your first clue that it is probably illegal. Pyramid clubs, where you are required to respond to a number of addresses on a mailing list, and chain letters, where you are told if you break the chain something terrible will happen to you, are both bogus and illegal. There is NO proven get-rich-quick scheme. The only one who gets rich is the one who thought it up in the first place. The Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Interstate Commerce regulate such practices. In addition, most Internet Service Providers have regulations against such practices and will terminate the service of such individuals who promote such scams. As so many have said before, “If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.” Remember the words of P. T. Barnum: “There’s a sucker born every minute.” Don’t be one. To submit your own questions, answers or retorts, email the Toy Car Collectors Association.
