Sebastian Foss - the man to avoid!

I have written about Sebastian Foss before, but he is still peddling his worthless crap, so it's time to give another warning.

First, do an online search for Sebastian Foss. There, amongst the advertising sites for his crap, you will find more than one scam site where people are complaining about his products and business ethics.

Since I had never personally used any of his programs, I decided to try his latest so i could give you an idea of what he produces.

His latest offering is Cash Creation. Here is the header from his web page that pretty much says it all.

Note the BOLD claims…

"Easily earn $500, $1000, even $5000+ every week with only 15 minutes of your time…"

I'm not exagerating or taking anything out of context, you can see it right there from his own web page.

My response to this?

B@&& S$!^

Here are three more direct quotes from his website.

	My brand new "CashCreation"-System is your surefire method to make money in 15 minutes!
	Start earning within 15 minutes or I'll personally refund every single dime of your order!
	Im releasing my well guarded method that I use to make $800 per day!

Again, I make no exagerated claims, I'm merely quoting from his web site.

But, by reading a little further, we find out he is not being so bold.

How would you like to make $75 - $250 every single day just for clicking your mouse ?

I'm not even typing his claims here, I'm copying them right off his web page.

Here's a real kicker!

John Denton, another Internet marketer is giving a testimonial.

"Hi Sebastian,

This is John Denton from the MyConnection2Wealth
eBusiness Center calling…

I just joined your new CashCreation program here, started digging right into it and made $75 bucks just like that…"

I guess that puts John Denton in the same category as Sebastian.

So, what's the big secret that has never been seen before?

Surveys!

I went ahead and ordered his guide, even though I had been the survey route before and knew full well that the money he was talking about was pure fabrication, but I wanted to see what he had to say.

I wasn't disappointed. Most of the surveys award points or free goodies, which I cannot get here in Korea, so his report was totally worthless to me. I have asked for a refund, but haven't heard back from him yet.

The sad thing is that a lot of people will promote his offerings because he has a pretty good affiliate program. The promoters make lots of money, but the buyers get stuck with junk, and if past history is any indication, I won't get my money back because I failed to fullfill some bogus requirement that he forgot to mention on his web page.

You're not going to get rich with surveys.

Surveys do pay, and sometimes they pay in actual cash. Most often, they pay in points with a monthly cash drawing that you might win. I worked the surveys for almost a year and never won anything. I did get a few coupons for items that were of little value, but I certainly couldn't make a living from taking surveys.

15 minutes?

No way! Most surveys that pay the equivalent of a dollar or two take longer than that.

Sebastian is a scam artist. Do not buy anything he offers. It is all junk, you will lose your money, and you will not gain anything of value from him.

Thanks for reading.

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Is there such a thing as Instant Cash?

You and I both know the answer to that one–NO!

You might get an "instant loan" that you will have to pay back, but even that isn't "instant". You have to fill out forms, answer questions, and jump through a myriad of hoops before you get the money, and the interest you pay is going to be higher than an conventional loan.

But Instant Blog Cash…

Sounds intriguing, doesn't it. The advertising is even more intriguing.

You get instant cash every time someone visits your blog. That's how it appears.

Well, the truth is, you don't really get instant cash. You get a cash credit for every visitor and in most cases, if you do the right things, your visitor doesn't even have to click on anything. Just opening your web page produces income for you. In a sense it is instant, but you don't get it instantly.

In fact, the amount of cash you will receive is quite small. But, you can multiply the amount you receive in several ways.

The first way is to have multiple instances of this cash generating miracle on your blog or web site. If you have it displayed four times, you get paid for four views. Next, you can have it on several blogs. In fact, you place this information on every blog and get paid from all of them. Then you can get lots of visitors because every visitor is cash in the bank. Finally, others can do the same thing, and you get paid a commission for everyone who uses your blog as the source for their own instant cash machine.

This all sounds so…mysterious, maybe illegal

It's really neither mysterious nor illegal. In fact, Instant Blog Cash is very legal, very ethical, and not so very lucrative–unless you have a lot of visitors to your blogs.

It is not a "getr-rich-quick", "sit-on-your-butt-and-do-nothing", "make-money-while-your-sleep" scheme, it is an actual advertising program from a very reputable source that is willing to pay you for showing your visitors something they are going to look at anyway.

There are a couple of caveats

First, I told you this was not get-rich-quick. As a real world example, suppose you had four instances of this system on your blog or web page. If you get 1000 visitors a day, you could make anywhere from $4 to $16 a day. Not going to make you rich, but it could pay your hosting and autoresponder fees, plus put a little money in the bank. We're talking an extra $100 or so a month in basically residual income.

Next, Instant Blog Cash does require some work to set it up. It's nor real time consuming, but if you want to make money, you will need to set up several blogs, perhaps with several pages, and that is going to take some time and effort on your part.

Finally, it appears that Blogger.com has blocked Instant Blog Cash so it doesn't work on their blogs. The why is beyond me. There is nothing unethical, illegal, immoral, nor in any other way wrong about this system. So, why they have chosen to block it is unfathomable. But I have tried both the video feeds and the text stories, and neither of them seem to work. I do have it set up on my WordPress blogs and it works quite well.

So what's next?

You have two options. The first, and best option, is to buy Instant Blog Cash for $7. You will learn all the secrets to making this system work, and you will get the best results this way.

But, you don't have to buy the book. You can go to the site that I created just for this program, Phoenix Galleria, see the program in action, click on one of the buttons where it offers you the ability to put this program on your own site, and take it from there. You'll miss out on some of the good stuff, but you can always come back and purchase the book later.

I would recommend looking at my site so you see what it is all about. Whatever you do, don't waste any time getting started with Instant Blog Cash. It's your pocket, put some money in it.

Thanks for reading.
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New $15 Notification of Payment Received

This wasn't the first time that I received an email with such a subject line, but normally I just delete them without further thought.

Of course the idea is to make you think that you have received a payment to your PayPal or other account. However, the key that is missing is a name. Whenever you receive a message like this that is not sent to you personally, including your name, is obviously an advertisement, and quite often a scam.

I read the page

How would you like to stay at home and make $15 for every e-mail you process online? It's absolutely true and It is a very simple process and no special skills are required. This is a very unique opportunity and there is nothing else like this available anywhere. If you are looking for a real opportunity to make money, you have come to the right place! Sit down, situate yourself comfortably and get ready to be amazed on how easy you can start making money from home.

Sound interesting? To me it sounds like a scam. In fact, this is the first step in the scam. If you read further down the page you will find an offer to sell you this system for $15. Interesting! The person who sent me this email will make $15 if I buy the system. That's one way for them to make money. 

Is this a scam?

I did what I normally do when I question a site. I started searching for information on the web. A search under "cashdirectly.com review" brought me the following information at http://bytemi.blogspot.com/2007/11/cashdirectlycom.html: 

I have seen on rebate processors many times, but this is the first time that I have seen it as e-mail processor. www.cashdirectly.com claims that can make $15 per email you process? They also state that you will receive 10 to 25 e-mails a day from them. I did my usual searching and found absolutely nothing on this company, so I figured I would make the $15.00 investment and worse case scenario I would be the first person to do the review. Guess what! This is what they do not tell you.The emails you're sending out are actually ads, people have to buy what you're offering in these ads in order for you to get paid. So instead of you making $15 for EVERY email you send out, you only make that money if someone responds to your email ad, and pays you. This means you'd probably have to send out anywhere from 50 to 100 ads or more, to get just one person who's interested and actually pays.You really have to work for that one $15 payment. If you've tried to make money online with anything, I'm sure you know how time consuming and expensive it can get placing ads. There are some free advertising methods that work OK, but for the most part in order to make money online, or anywhere, you have to spend money first.I would not invest in the program, in the long wrong you are going to work really hard and only get $15 for your effort.

This is a direct quote from her site, errors and all. It merely points up what I have been saying all along. 

Before you send you money, check it out.

The Internet is filled with promises of wealth if only you send … Think about it. If that was the case, wouldn't everyone be rich? Get rich quick and easy is not something new. I'm 60 something and I remember a time well before the Internet. (In fact I remember the Internet before Al Gore - although he tried to take the credit for inventing it ). I once purchased a book called "The Lazy Way to Riches" which was filled with warnings that started out "Our lawyer told us to tell you…"

There is no lazy way to riches, even on the Internet. Yes you can make money, lots of money, but you have to put forth effort to do so. There is no such thing as turning on your computer and having it spit out money for you. It just doesn't work that way. You don't become a journeyman on your job by reading a book or snapping your fingers. You gain experience by making mistakes, investing time and sometimes money, and doing whatever it takes to learn the skills that make you the expert. Marketing on the Internet is no different.

Be careful folks, it's a jungle out there

Do your due diligence. Check it out. Look for scam reports and reviews before you make a decision. But let me give you one other warning. A scam report does not necessarily mean a scam. Some people report anything that doesn't give them instant money as a scam. So, read the reports carefully. A single scam report may just be sour grapes. A multitude of scam reports is a good indication of a problem.

If you want to start your success apprentice training, check out http://YourTurnToBeSuccessful.com. It's a new site and still under development, but it has some good potential for anyone who is serious about success in life.

This is Phoenix Rising telling it like it is.
Thanks for reading.

The Scams are alive and well!

I wrote earlier about two systems by two well known scammers.

Run, Dont Walk Away From This One! (Posted October 23, 2006)

Remember this one? It detailed the scam being run by Simjon Baxter called More than Traffic. He had a good spiel when he first came out and he duped a lot of people, including yours truly.

I wrote him an email after my post and today I got a reply. Here is his answer.

Very informative? Not at all. Just more of the gobbledegook that Simon has become famous for. I made no changes to the email, this is just exactly as I received it.

Cash Creation - Really? (Posted November 2, 2006)

I wrote about this one more recently and called Sebastian Foss "the man to avoid". I've seen his ads many times, and after doing some online research I decided to stay away from him as he had too many complaints. Well, finally I decided to try his latest offering just to see what he was about.

His boldest claim was "Start earning within 15 minutes or I'll personally refund every single dime of your order!"

Not only was I unable to earn any money - still haven't - I could find very few surveys that would work for a Korean resident. So, I sent him the following email.

Here is my reply from Sebastian.

Yep, that's right. No response. All I did was quote his terms, directly from his web page, and I got nothing in return.

Save your money, folks. Stay away from people like this.

If you have any programs you are wondering about, let me know and I'll try to review them here. My goal is to save you the pain of losing as much money as I have lost over the past few years.

Thanks for reading.

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Your business needs credit to survive

While many consider credit a bad thing, credit when used wisely is fundamental to running an online business.

I would never suggest that you use a credit card to purchase an online business opportunity. That is not only foolish, it is downright stupid. Yet many promoters will pressure you into putting their fees on a credit card with the implied promise that you will be making enough within the first 30 days to make your credit card payments. That is not only hogwash, it is downright bull sh#*! You should run, not walk, away from any such opportunity.

Perhaps you have already been stung

I speak from experience, and maybe you have done the same thing. The sad result is a badly damaged credit rating when the bills come due without the funds to pay. So, how can you repair your credit rating and restore the credit you need to successfully build your business?

CreditCardSearchEngine.com has just the solution. Whether you are starting a new business and just need a card to keep your business expenditures separate from your personal spending, or if you are recovering from a financial setback that has left your credit in a shambles, CreditCardSearchEngine.com has a card for you.

Whatever your credit needs

If you need to rebuild bad credit, start a credit file for your business, provide a cash card for your children, or if you just need a short term loan to tide you over until payday, CreditCardSearchEngine.com is the place to go. These are not fly-by-night credit agencies either, but come from such well known financial institutions as CitiBank, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., Bank of America, and other premier institutions.

You'll be amazed

Whatever your financial needs, the answer is here. Check them out. You'll be glad you did.

CreditCardSearchEngine.com

Thanks for reading.

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