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	<title>Law and Disorder &#187; fraud</title>
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		<title>Chain Letter Schemes in the Cyber Age</title>
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				<category><![CDATA[Acting With Principle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Going Against the Grain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chain letters]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Honest fistfuls' of money do not need smoke nor mirrors.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_268" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://judgerichardposner.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/christchainletter.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-268" title="christchainletter" src="http://judgerichardposner.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/christchainletter-300x190.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="190" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Top portion of a &quot;Letter from Heaven,&quot; produced in England.  Such bogus machinations have been around for a long time.</p></div>
<p>Nearly half of the unsolicited mail I receive centers on a similar scheme:  Read this message, sign up as an affiliate,pay an initiation fee, share this message with other lazy folks in your circle, build a huge downline of carrot-chasing thieves, rinse and repeat, and finally retire in the Bahamas in six months or so.</p>
<p>There may be a product or service as an inducement to these schemes, but the material is often hackneyed, untruthful or dated and inserted just to keep the authorities from clamping down on the organization (rightfully) for being a pyramid or Ponzi Scheme.</p>
<p>Wikipedia defines a pyramid scheme as follows:<br />
<em>A pyramid scheme is a non-sustainable business model that involves promising participants payment, services or ideals, primarily for enrolling other people into the scheme or training them to take part, rather than supplying any real investment or sale of products or services to the public. Pyramid schemes are a form of fraud.</em></p>
<p>So&#8230;how many of those &#8220;exploding MLMs&#8221; which the shiftless sign up for are anything more than evolved chain letters that use a pyramid structure to promote?  Meguesses over 90 percent of them.</p>
<p>Often when I read about clever thieves and fraudsters, I think to myself:  &#8220;What a waste of human potential!  If they are clever enough to rob a bank or steal $10 million from people with a scam,  they most certainly could use their ingenuity on the up-and-up to accomplish the same or much more without facing a prison term.&#8221;</p>
<p>Use your creative juices to create real value.  Stay clear of MLM schemes.  They are insidious and seriously compromise your integrity and credibility.  Don&#8217;t be fooled by those involved in such schemes that tell you they are making money hand over fist and money-making is easy.  It&#8217;s a fools&#8217; game.  Honest fistfuls&#8217; of money do not need smoke nor mirrors.</p>
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		<title>Fraud</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 22:32:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Each question you ask yourself is either meant to reinforce your existing belief system which keeps you in your place or question your place in the system.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you oft repeat anything , it will manifest itself.</p>
<p>Most people are manifested in delusion and fraud.    I aim, in this brief musing, to prove to you that you too are a fraud, no matter how squeaky-clean you may appear to others or how delusively-clean you may think yourself to be.  This could be great news, if you read and listen in a humble fashion.</p>
<p><span class="sqq"><span class="sqq">Vanity keeps persons in favor with themselves who are out of favor with all others.</span></span></p>
<p>What happens every morning that you are alive and relatively healthy?  Of course, you wake up and go through your daily motions and emotions.  Everything you and I do is meant to ease our fear of  loneliness and of not being appreciated.</p>
<p>So we drive a certain car, dress in a particular fashion, speak in an affected manner, eat food we associate with happiness or style, and make love (or don&#8217;t make love) in a manner which makes a statement about who we are are and what we stand for.</p>
<p>What do you stand for?  Justice?  Equality? Wife or husband swapping/beating?  Your religious convictions?  Working hard on the job?  Being a good parent?  Being an obedient child?  Being loyal to everyone?  Making mountains&#8217; of moolah?  Or here are two dear to my heart:  being educated and enlightened?</p>
<p>It&#8217;s all nonsense and self-fraudery.  The one thing most people avoid at any cost is thinking about profound issues of life and death.  We tiptoe around them because they seem so impenetrable and imponderable, and thus meaningless to us all.</p>
<p>Questions such as -  &#8220;What is the meaning of life?&#8221; or &#8220;What is my life purpose?&#8221; or &#8220;Where do I go after I die?&#8221; &#8211; are at first intriguing imponderables, but soon become fading echoes as we move hectically forward (or backward) in our quest to be somebody in this rental world we inhabit.</p>
<p>Is life just a random whirlwind of events which we are forced to partake in and react to?  Are we predestined to be a master or a slave?  Do some people just seem to have all the luck?</p>
<p>Each question you ask yourself is either meant to reinforce your existing belief system which keeps you in your place or question your place in the <em>system</em>.</p>
<p>So are you ready to move forward and  finally reveal to the world the naked truth about you?  Don&#8217;t worry:  the most important beings will not be ashamed or repulsed by your innocent nakedness or naked innocense.  They will revel and come to your aid and protect you from evil and jealousness of others bathed in fraud and cloaked in vanity.</p>
<p>My God has spoken through me.  It&#8217;s up to you to take these words and ideas and run with them or reject them as blasphemy against the prevailing cult of the fraudulent.</p>
<p>I would rather live one pure day of being my naked, unashamed self than 29,200 hours (80 years) of fraud, delusion, and cover up.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ll let you be the judge.</p>
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