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Impossible Earnings – The Keystone Where Scams Are Built
Countless opinions have been offered about the Aman Futures scam, the Ponzi racket that hit the newsreels weeks ago and seems even getting hotter as days go by.
The facts appear mind-boggling: about P12.0 billion or so in hard earned money were bilked from 15,000 or so market vendors, fishermen, teachers, policemen, soldiers and government official Continue reading
Failure Is, In a Sense, the Highway to Success
“If you fail, then learn your lesson and try again. And again. And again until you succeed.”
That is our penultimate line in the last post entitled “ Is Franchising the Road to Entrepreneurial Success”. This post now therefore hopes to pick up where we left off, and elaborate on such line.
Well, although practically everybody has experienced failure at one time or another, the fact is that we earthlings still can’t help feeling bad or shaking out that terrible feeling of failure once it happens. In computer parlance, we are “hardwired” to feel bad when we get thwarted with our desired outcomes.
This post is not meant to dwell much about success or failure in other endeavors. There is a deluge of literature about success and how to handle failure in life and we certainly do not want to add to such oversupply.
Caveat OFW – Scammers at the Gates, Part 2
For this concluding portion of the two-part article, we will dwell on two more types of scams: scams by legitimate entities; and, foreign currency investment scams. Afterward, we will end with simple suggestions to avoid scams. Scams by Legitimate Entities … Continue reading
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