Tuesday, March 09, 2010

How To Avoid Online Scams

Online Scams are rampant. Every time you surf the web you see ads for some new miracle weight loss drug, ancient medicine, or home remedy... But 99% of these are frauds. So how do we avoid them? Well that is exactly the question myself and a group of 5 other Philosophy students from my college set out to solve. We made a website which claimed to make your plants grow much faster if you followed our program. Of course this is a complete lie. The website we created is www.TheMonsterEffect.com it has pictures, videos, and testimonials all of which are completely fake... but how could you prove it??? Below is the Debunking video we made to teach you how to spot a fraud.

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