We all know that part of selling is matching problems to solutions and that is an important service.
But not all sales people play by these rules. So as a buyer the sting comes when you don’t need something but get hooked on the promise of what may lead to a better life.
John, a mate, from my local watering hole, sent me an link inviting me to join Paybox.me. Thus got him $10 if I joined. In spite of my father’s warning as a kid to be wary of men selling things in pubs I went ahead and joined.
This site looked good, promoting an early bird chance on a prelaunch business set to take on the giant payment and currency system PALPAY. I immediately got $25 deposited in a new account I registered. That got me hooked. And I could get even more free money so like John, I sent it to others so I could get the $10 referral fee.
It seemed so easy even though I suspected it had some catch. But I was getting money in just a couple of days so a few hundred 
dollars added to my account for doing virtually so it seemed like a great deal. Mind you I am not sure whose dollars they are and I am waiting for the good news about how I can spend them.
Even if when they eventually made it clear they were Disney Dollars in drag, nd not being able to be trade them against any real currency or even spend them to many makes no difference too. When people see that magic $ sign growing they ignore all the fine print. Nothing can stop gullible people like me wanting it to be real and still believing it could be. When they spice it up about being on the ground floor with clever wording it muffles the common sense even more. The hints of being on the ground floor as part of an alternative competitor to grab some of the obscene amounts of lucrative money from a greedy mogul like PayPal makes it so compelling.
Even if it is all just crap, finding how they get a list of 20 million names, makes it worth watching them. Nothing to lose I thought and even disbelieving the substance I still considered I would see hoe many $10 I could get for each referral on my lists.
I already nearly 19,000 loyal followers on my Twitter account, which I have done the hard way to built up over the last few years doing this blog. I am not sure if I did myself a favor by sending this junk to them as it dropped to just over 18,000. It was a quick lesson for me too about not messing with people who trust you
When I took a closer look I could not see anything real in the PayBox.me The material on their site seems all fluff so I have begun calling it play-me material. Clearly it is designed for suckers with the usual vagueness of a sting-marketing program. It has a typical long and hype and promise page designed to be repetitive skeptics with a versions some get rich quick message that by repetition seeks to exhaust natural distrust. The poorly disguised links too are way out of context and lead to other suspect money making schemes that promise nothing and suck you in and ask for real money.
Their carrot and stick promotional then promises even more money if you visit their site each day. Or you risk your account being cancelled for inactivity. When you take a good look at the site entries there they are nothing to do with what PayBox.me say they are doing. As I said they just lead you to dodgy schemes. These “Send me real money to get rich quick sucker”, have also been around for a while and probably the same guys who created this play-with-me scam .
I checked more and I found quite a bit written on this being a scam. there is actually one there that is well written and talks about it being a scam but concluding that so far does not ask for anything. Like me he join out of curiosity to see where it goes. Obviously any publicity even this blog helps their cause so I suspect that was written by the site owner, who ever that is!!
I also noted the so called YouTube’s that would give then credibility to their subliminal links have all been removed by the author. People like me naturally assume their web is just faulty so we accept the statements that lead me there and never suspect the broken site link is actually a part the string.
Like many such schemes that never happen, I suspect this is just another scam for building hooks, hype and halos around an early bird scheme that will never be launched. As we all know that any story as it gets bigger and more people get involved starts to take on proportions of trust and the truth, even Blind Freddy can’t see.
The sting in many such sites is all the while the crooks cream off loads of cash from gullible people in small doses with seemingly legitimate but equally dodgy side promotions. See what you can find there or what they say about their plans there. I found zip. they will sell you all sorts of useless fluff stuff on the side and get rich to then quietly evaporate before someone can tumble them. We all know the biggest and best cons are the ones that fool all of the people all of the time. (Cannot be done they say. Think again who says that and then think Maybe?
The big catch is these guys will never tell you is they will never get the service launched. Like mud on your face it is obvious such a service would involve all the banks and all financial markets. Anything free is a sure sign that there is something to be wary about. That’s just my idea and I may be way off base.
I think I will stick to PayPal . Right now it costs me nothing or if it does, I don’t really care. It is safe.
Something we all know about that actually works, is talking sense to people to give them value now and then going for a beer with them when they are happy. John I hope to see you soon.
