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Fake Gurus Exposed

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DesiDucati

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I’ve been watching a lot of YouTube and kept noticing lots of Get Rich Quick Ads. Then this video showed up in my recommend section explaining these owners of the ads are totally scammers. And other ironic thing about this video tough is that througout this video there were interruptions with the very fake guru ads the narrator is trying to expose.


I think too many young people are being seduced by get rich quick scams and I’m glad this guy made a video warning the public about them.

Right at the beginning he exposed the guy with his Lamborghini in the garage which it was indeed the first false guru scam I saw when I was a kid.

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DesiDucati said:
I’ve been watching a lot of YouTube and kept noticing lots of Get Rich Quick Ads. Then this video showed up in my recommend section explaining these owners of the ads are totally scammers.
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I'm kinda dyin' to know what you're watching to have that come up on your YouTube reco's. :laughing
 
The information in the video should be obvious. And these gurus have been around longer than the internet, as we've had one's who have started on TV infomercials. The infomercial gurus are still out there. They just have more overhead to their operations.

Those weren't interruptions of fake guru ads. They were a part of the video, there to make a point.

I'm not sure if the video is more of a warning or a blueprint. :laughing
 
DesiDucati said:
Right at the beginning he exposed the guy with his Lamborghini in the garage which it was indeed the first false guru scam I saw when I was a kid.
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The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

--Ecclesiastes​
The medium is new. The scams are the same. They flourished long before there was an internet (or even a computer smaller than a house).

Joe Karbo wrote a book called The Lazy Man's Way to Riches.
Joe Karbo was an ordinary man, a "lazy man" by his own admission, whose struggle to overcome adversity, poverty, and failure led him to extraordinary riches.

Some people thought Joe made his fortune from the enormous sales of his book, "The Lazy Man's Way to Riches" but the reality is that he made millions prior to even thinking about writing that now classic book.

Joe was one of the foremost copy-writers, headline writers and direct response experts of all time.

He established new precedents, and built the foundation for today's direct response industry - making himself a self-made millionaire in the process.​
His secret (I am not making this up) was to create intellectual property--you know, like a book--that, once created, would go on making money with low variable cost. This is one of Scott Adams' "secrets" too, but I doubt that the Dilbert creator fell for Joe Karbo's book.

See also Werner Erhard and Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.

I once worked for a guy who traded commodity futures using several technical systems sold by gurus. My job was to model his composite trading system and run it on historical data. It didn't fare much better than chance.
 
"How to get rich"

"Start a youtube channels where you charge people to teach them how to get rich by starting a youtube channel telling people how to get rich"
 
"A fool and his money are soon parted..."

I mean hey, it apparently seems to be working often enough for them to keep doing it.
 
The new one for techies are all the online courses prepping for FAANG interviews.
 
DataDan said:
I once worked for a guy who traded commodity futures using several technical systems sold by gurus. My job was to model his composite trading system and run it on historical data. It didn't fare much better than chance.
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I worked for a guy who took free map information, generally historical maps, gathered from across the internet and bundled it into subscription package to libraries, K-12 schools and universities. It seems really scummy. Well, he was scummy because most of his "content creators" were temps on 6-month contracts. He destroyed his work base locally so now he's doing it in another state.
 
DucatiHoney said:
I'm kinda dyin' to know what you're watching to have that come up on your YouTube reco's. :laughing
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I’ve been watching lots of ZipTrader. Charlie’s ideas for stock daytrades are pretty educational and I’ve made money based on his picks so far.
 
UDRider said:
The new one for techies are all the online courses prepping for FAANG interviews.
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I had to look up FAANG. I heard of GAFA, but I never thought Netflix had enough influence.

The Google interviews I had were quite ridiculous, its probably good to listen to people's advise and decide what is good or bad, never to attach guru status right away.

At Google they put me with real weirdos at me, which I guess is a good reason for me not to work there, to look on the bright side. :laughing

This is a tangent, but It's good to warn people that Google may take 6 months to interview you and then low offer you a gutted benefit limited time contract job. Every situation is different.
 
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