Beware of conmen

I received a comment on one of my posts recently. I was wondering whether to write about it in my financial blog or my humour blog. Finally decided in favour of the financial blog. Reason: The potential pitfalls for people to get conned is so great that the matter is serious enough not to be treated as a mere joke to be laughed off.

First, read this comment on an earlier post:

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My own observations:

• First, this guy "amarinvestments" may be the very guru of Warren Buffett, and, may, in fact, multiply your money many times over.
• However, I have my own doubts. On the contrary, it is more likely to be just another sales pitch to sell his / her financial service products like "Wealth Management",  "Broking Research", "PMS", etc.
• The rationale behind my doubt is very simple. If a specific investment idea is going to generate 400% money in a single year, why would I be trying to go around, read other peoples' blogs, write comments on their posts, offer my services to make money for others, etc.??? Much rather, I'll simply sell out a good chunk of all my other investments and put all my disposable surplus money in this "Silver Bullet" "investment" - And retire rich.

While the world wide web is a rich source of often valuable information, it is also full of potential pitfalls like these. And, apparently, our regulatory framework is hardly robust enough to "take care" of such misinformation campaigns. The worst part is that this one is merely a comment on a blog. If any of you is going to contact "amarinvestments" or any such person, they'll have the ready excuse that "you came in search of their services" and subsequent losses, if any, is at your own risk.

And, of course, they are right about that part of it.

Moral of the story:

• Beware of conmen!

Regards,

N

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Beware of conmen