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Day 83: Mike Shreeve - scammer
At any given time, Facebook is
a hotbed for scammers. At the moment one such scammer is Mike Shreeve.
Mike claims to have been working
as a freelance writer for the past ten years and now he’s willing to share his success
template with you. Just to see what he was up to, I clicked on the link and was
taken to a long (and I do mean loooooooooong) explanation of what this template
could do for you.
I suspected right away that
this was a scam and I was right. Near the bottom of the template Mike's true
intention was revealed … to get the secret of his writing success, one had to
pay $7.
I think you all will agree
that $7 isn’t much, it’s little more than the price of a cup of coffee. Mike
knows this and counts on it. If you’re thinking that he can’t do much with $7,
you would be right, but a true scam is a long con.
Think about it. Facebook has
thousands of members and while $7 may seem like nothing, if 1,000 people fall
for his scam, that’s $7,000. He only has to run his ad once a month to make a
very comfortable living.
To get to the bottom of
this, I did a little research and I have to admit, Mike Shreeve put a lot of effort
into his scam. He created a website, he designed his so-called ‘No Pants Project’, he even roped in a few people who supposedly made big money with freelance
writing.
Someone called Kate claims
to make $100 an hour while Pete claims to make $1,000 a day. Every professional
freelance writer will see right through this. There is no way, and I mean no way, that a freelance writer gets paid
$100 an hour or that someone can make $1,000 a day. If that were true, people
everywhere would quite there day job and start a freelance writing career.
The thing is though, I had
to dig deep to find Mike Shreeve’s contact info. Wouldn’t you think that as a
businessman he would make his contact info easy to find? But no, his
potential victims have to read a lot of blah blah blah. Blah blah blah that
tells them how much they can earn and how easy it is. By the time they reach
the end of the page, they are brainwashed that what Mike Shreeve promises is
actually true.
There’s only one thing
missing … Mike Shreeve’s work. Yes, he has a website and a so-called project, and
quite a few sites where he promotes his (scamming) business, but when browsing
the Net, he has no articles. Now, wouldn’t you think that such a successful
writer would have articles online? Something with his byline?
Yes, some writers are
ghostwriters for a magazine or a website, but I dare say that all of these
ghostwriters, at one time or another, have written something under their own name. That is not the case
with Mike Shreeve, I could find any articles with his byline.
Mike Shreeve also has a
couple of books on Amazon, with 5-star reviews. Also bogus. The ‘books’ are
barely 80 pages long and contain nothing more than a senseless dribble. All rehashed advice of what he could find online. Basically, copying other writers' work. As for
the review … I guess we all know by now that there is such a thing as paid
reviews.
Do not fall for Mike Shreeve's scam. Do
not pay that $7. If you want to be a freelance writer you’re gonna have to do
what any other freelance writer has done … put in the time and effort to
produce quality material. Once you make a name for yourself, you will get clients
and you will make money. How much money is up to you.
The bottom line is … Mike
Shreeve is a scammer, a talented scammer, but then scammers usually are.
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