ScamWatch

A few years ago, I was really into being one of the answer guys for answers.com.  My particular focus was on answering the several thousand back logged questions in the now closed "Scam" section.  The questions were always along the lines of, "Is Company X a scam?" or "Is this company a pyramid scheme?" and stuff like that.

But out of all the free offers of travel or lies about lottery wins and Nigerian princes, the ones that bothered me the most were the Multi-Level Marketing (MLM) ones.  These are the ones offering "employment" and "sales opportunities" when there was no real employment and the only opportunity was to lose your own money.

These companies preyed upon the young, the ignorant, and "the both"!  It can trick someone of any age, and yes, it can trick those of surprisingly high intelligence, especially if they've never seen or heard of the scam before.

The lengths these companies, and their shills, go to is beyond belief.  They will create fake "Is this a scam?" sites, and then "investigate" Company X (which they'll assure you they have nothing to do with!) and then solemnly pronounce that while all the competing companies are pyramid schemes and Multi-Level Marketing scams, Company X is not, so go sign up now!

Eventually, Answers.com got overwhelmed by various MLM companies flooding them with "corrections" so as to get the "scam" category closed.  And those same companies continue their tricks to this day, making sure that their own bought and paid for shills dominate the first page or three of any Google search you do on them.

They are confident that few will wade through all the crap and tricks they pull to get the scoop on them.  And they're right.  Few will.

But I'm one of the few.

On this new site, there will never be any "But having investigated, I'm pleased to report this one great company is NOT a scam!"  No, this is ScamWatch, if you see their company name here, then it's a scam.  And so you know in general?

If it's MLM it's a scam.