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They promise, that in four month, you can make more money while you sleep than you did last year at your day job. They swear that you don’t need any special skills, equipment, or talent. In fact, a quantity of them suggest that you don’t even need to get dressed. They show “real people” talking about how they have earned “real money” using these simple products.

They are liars taking advantage of people’s fear during an ongoing recession & times of record high unemployment.

Think about it: if these products were in any way real, everyone would be using them.

The three infomercials that come up night after night, as if mocking my insomnia, are:

These scammers are all a part of Mentoring of The united states.

* John Beck’s Free & Clear Real Estate Technique
* John Alexander’s Real Estate Riches in 14 Days
* Jeff Paul’s Shortcuts to Web Millions

Here’s how the scam works:

They sell their “systems” for anywhere from $19.95 to $39.95. Next, they have telemarketing companies contact everyone who bought a method and sell them pricey “personal coaching services” that will supposedly help them use the method and earn even more money. These services cost between $195 and $14,995. Even if you don’t fall for that, six times you buy the program you are automatically enrolled in continuity programs which cost $39.95 a month.

They offer a 30-day guarantee but a fast search on Google shows lots of people who claim that not only did they not get their money back but they couldn’t get in to contact with the company to cancel.

Breakdown of each individual scam

John Beck: Now, if you can find all of this on the world wide web, and you probably can, why do you need his technique? They all have access to Google, and that’s free.

John Beck claims that his technique can help you buy properties in foreclosure for pennies on the dollar, that you will own this property free and clear with no every month payments, that you can find, purchase and resell these properties over the world wide web and that you can do all of this with no real estate license.

$19.95 + shipping & handling on www.johnbeck.tv

The FTC charged John Alexander’s Real Estate Riches in 14 Days. Now he’s calling it, John Alexander’s Foreclosure Fortunes in 14 Days. His web-site claims that they can teaches you to money in on “today’s foreclosure tidal wave basically and easily”—all of this without using your own money or credit, and again, without a license. They also offers a free 30-day trial of his foreclosure vault which starts billing at $39.95 a month if you don’t (or can’t) cancel.

In Jeff Paul’s Shortcuts to Millions, they promises that you can make millions sitting at home in your underclothes. They claims you can earn $50,000 a month—without any prior experience with net businesses. They promises “proven, turnkey net businesses.” The turnkey businesses provided are nothing of the sort. You must generate your own products from scratch, enhance the simplistic web-sites provided & do all of the marketing yourself.

Mentoring of America
The “coaching services” are provided by Mentoring of America LLC and Family Products, LLC. These services cost between $195 and $14,995.

Operation Short Change

This past summer the FTC brought charges against all four of these scammers in a crackdown called Operation Short Change. These cases are still in litigation but if the FTC prevails, these con artists will must substantially change their infomercials and websites. The FTC tries to stop the misconduct and to get people’s money back.

The FTC told me that people should, “Watch out for anything that sounds lovely to be true. When you are promised that all you must do is pay a small feel for gigantic rewards that’s a gigantic red flag.”

 

* check with the BBB & the State Attorney General
* not give out any account information
* make sure you are not getting signed up for a every month recurring club or fee

I recommend that people:

If you’ve been the victim of a scam contact your State Attorney General or contact the FTC directly.

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SMC (Specialty Merchandise Corporation)

Our previous review about Specialty Merchandise Corporation basically didn't recommend the opportunity because of the lack of unique marketing methods that they taught. Yes, they have a nice selection of products but the marketing was, well frankly, cheesy. We thought that was going to be the end of the story. We was wrong.

Kerry Cox who is the VP is marketing for SMC, sent us an e-mail asking that we give him a call. We get a few letters and phone calls from guys on TV but it is usually their attorneys and they are huffing about what we have written about them. We called Kerry thinking that it was going to turn into a shouting match but he was incredibly professional and very cool. He basically agreed with me that a few of the marketing methods (and manuals) that SMC did in the past were not their best materials and he would love to have me review their newest manual.

We said, "Sure, why the heck not". He ended up sending us a new complete Specialty Merchandise Corporation kit and we sent him a new MDM2 mentoring program. We didn't want to get something for free with him thinking that we was going to give them a new, nice write up. We ended up talking about infomercial marketing for about 30 minutes and we waited for my package to arrive. We will say right off that we was impressed with the look of the package compared to what they sold a few years ago. They had sections on everything from marketing at a flea market to getting online and making money.

The videos, manuals and everything else was a whole new level of quality and the info was even better. we was impressed. They even had more products than they did a year ago. Good enough for me to give the big thumbs up to? Yes and No. We will recommend the package if you are looking to start a simple home based business or you are looking for a new source of products. We still don't think that they are a great source for internet or mail order information because their materials are just too thin. Not enough meat. For mail order or internet marketing, you are much better off picking up a book (like mine) or one at Amazon on the subject compared to what they teach in their stuff. They are really more for the flea market crowd. Read More..