The Make Money Fast Hall of Humiliation

The following is NOT an April Fool's Joke:

• How not to make impressive money (www.businessdayonline.com/analysis/backpage/7164.html) - An editorial/explanation/diatribe on various scammy things in a business newspaper - from Nigeria!

Update: Due to reports of a Popup That Will Not Die being a part of this site, I have disabled the link. If you want to go and read the article, I have included the URL in a "disabled" format. BTW, I use Firefox with the NoScript plugin to keep these things off my computer.

• Avoid Internet Scams - fake-check scam hits Appalachia.
• People still fall for those Internet scams - don't we know it.
• Don't be an April fool - there is, after all, a difference between a practical joke and fraud.

• Teenager conman sets up websites weeks after leaving jail - If at first you don't succeed...
• Internet scammers don’t care who you are - after all, to them you are but a big pile of $$$$MONEY$$$$$.

• Scams expected to grow - in which the irrational belief that you can Make $$$$MONEY$$$$$ FA$T! from these schemes is referred to as the "tooth fairy syndrome".
• Consumer Alert: Electricity Pyramid Scam - The Central East Texas BBB may not have seen this yet, but this site wrote about it back in August of 2007.
• New scams being sent to locals - the Chilton County Sheriff’s Department discovers the Internet. Next up: pr0n found on Sheriff's Dept computers.

Wow - a slow news week, MMF-wise! Of course, with the whole subprime mortgage meltdown and run-up of oil prices hogging the spotlight, who has the time for a lot of stuff like this:

• Financial adviser faces more allegations - accused of scam to finance Vanuatu resort, he may not be the Survivor in court.