So it is early on a Sunday morning, I am logging some miles on the treadmill and flipping through the DirecTV guide looking for something interesting to watch.  As I am flipping through channels I come across an infomercial for Jeff Paul and his “Shortcut to Internet Million’s” program.  There was Jeff mugging for the camera with his mansion sized house and luxury automobiles parked in the background.  Jeff was touting how he was broke and nearly homeless when he struck upon his idea that turned himself into an Internet millionaire virtually overnight.

Okay...I am hooked at this point and want to hear more.  I am Internet savvy; and while I am not in the poorhouse I could certainly use an extra million or two.  So Jeff proceeds to lay out that For just $39.95 I can get his secret to making money, 10 FREE websites and a toll-free hotline to personal business advisors that will help me get my Internet Millions business off the ground and churning out my first million dollars in no time.  Now come the testimonials, Joe from some obscure Midwestern city is now on the screen.  Joe is telling me how in a matter of a few months using Jeff Paul’s system he went from being destitute to clearing over $10,000 per week in income.  This doesn’t stop with Joe, the parade of testimonials keeps coming and coming.  Each and every one of them telling me how All of them telling how easy it was to start generating BIG money by following Jeff’s Shortcut to Internet Millions  plan.

Now I am a skeptic by nature, and have spent my fair share of hard earned money on get rich quick schemes.  Only to find out that I was lining other peoples pocket and getting nothing in return.  Would this be the same for this program?  Or would this finally be the magic bullet that would make me a millionaire over night, make all my problems go away and make my wildest dreams come true.  I mean come on…here were real life people telling me how they did it.  And all they did was spend $39.95 and followed Jeff Paul’s plan.

My skepticism got the best of me and I turned to my best friend on the internet, Google!  I started Googling Jeff Paul and the red flags began popping up immediately.  When I see websites like www.jeffpaulripoff.com come up ahead of Jeff Paul’s actual website in the search engine rankings I knew there was going to be a blazing inferno of negative publicity under the smoke I was seeing.

So, to cut to the quick and explain to you what the program is actually about.  First of all the $39.95 that you send in actually pays pretty much for all the nice glossy marketing material that Jeff sends you.  Yes, you do get 10 free websites, but these are websites that you could have for free before you spent $39.95.  Basically the $39.95 is a bait and switch move.  They want to get your personal and bank information, then get you on the phone to up sell you to another package and invest more of your hard earned dollars.  And now the kind of money they are talking about is significantly more than forty bucks.  It is more like ten grand….that’s right they want you to invest $10,000 in their money making scheme!  Not hard to see what is going on here?  Call it what you want, pyramid or Ponzi, basically Jeff Paul is just preying on the people that barely have the $40 bucks to spare let alone get swindled out of money they don’t have.

Do what you want with your forty bucks, but I think I will keep mine and not give it to Jeff Paul.