Reply #6: Meanwhile They've Headed Across The County Line [View All]

Reminds me of the age-old radio scam...goes back to when Dr. Brinkley sold a painful operation involving bull testicles and "sexual virility" back in the 1930s and almost was elected Governor of Nebraska. Snake oil salesmen then and now...just the wagon looks different.

By the time the FTC or other Federal agency clamps down on this scam, the money's been long collected, cashed and spent. The onus of proving fraud is real difficult and my bets are the "company" here is probably very "paper thin" and the "principals" have long since vanished from the land of the living.

Several years ago I saw a group of promoters come into a town, bought a vacant bar. Over the next month they bought advertising and held some of the biggest parties the town ever had seen. Thousands of people showed and the new bar was a hit. Well that was until it was revealed the "owners" never had secured a liquor license or even had purchased the property...they just set up shop and went to town. By the time the local police decided to clamp down on the illegal bar, the place was deserted, the "owners" had blown town. They left behind a large unpaid contract with the local beer distributor and surely were off to the next town to do the scam all over again.