I have to re-post this message because the original one with the copy and paste email from “Herman” — a reader — was affecting the menu bar on the right. You can read the contents of the email here.

MY VIEW

While I think it is commendable for Herman to be doing this, I think the best way to fight the scammers is not to “invest” in their scams at all. He mentioned Secure Land Invest in his message. Now if you visit the site you would see that they are offering 300% in 12 days (their regular plan pays 4% daily). If this is not ridiculous enough, they also claim that they are making this from real estate. Before we put our money in programs like these we need to ask ourselves some basic questions: can these kind of returns be made from real estate? And if this were the case, would it not be better for the admin(s) to go to a bank and get a loan for 8% per annum instead of paying 4% of his / her profits daily to us?

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