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The
illegal HYIP: This insidious plant grows wild in the Internet jungle. It
releases an odor of easy money that is intoxicating to unwary adventurers. The illegal HYIP is very much like the legal variety except that
the yield promised is much, MUCH higher and the time of return expected is
much, MUCH shorter. Even the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has warned about
such illegal HYIP schemes. You can read all of the details of the FBI warning
by clicking here. In part the FBI says: “The purpose of
this notice is to alert the public to persons who have reportedly marketed
investment schemes which appear to be fraudulent. Various "prime
bank" trading programs, or similar trading programs which purport to offer
above average market returns with below market risk through the trading of bank
instruments are fraudulent. Offering such programs, or claiming to be able to
introduce investors to persons who have access to such programs, violates
numerous federal laws, including All HYIP’s are based on speculation...both
the legal and illegal varieties. If you choose to invest in an HYIP, you need
to be aware that what you are investing in is a building that hasn’t been built
or a product that hasn’t been launched or the educated guess of a person or
organization that is in the position to make such and educated guess. You are
BETTING that other people will succeed in a prospective financial venture. **Note: Legitimate HYIP’s do not send unsolicited emails. If
you receive an offer to invest your money in a HYIP via unsolicited email...it
IS the illegitimate variety. The Intermediary Plant: This plant usually sprouts up as an
unsolicited “opportunity” in your inbox. That, all by itself, should raise red
flags for you. Remember that big opportunities that are real and legitimate are
not sent by unsolicited bulk email...that is SPAM. Real big
opportunities are very, VERY rare if they exist at all. I’ve never personally
seen one. The offer will
always be from someone that you do not know and will usually have a name that
sounds ‘foreign’. It will NOT address you by name...that is another little tip
off that you are looking at a poisonous intermediary plant.
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