Is anyone else seeing this sponsored ad on FB in their feed? "I’m no author, and yet I sell literally THOUSANDS of books on Amazon every single month... You know the crazy thing… I didn’t even write the books myself! There’s a loophole on Amazon that allows me to get paid a 5-figure income each month - with a totally new and different strategy. Now I’m sharing how to do this with anyone who wants a more passive style of income in this free workshop. You’ll discover: Why this "non-traditional" income source almost always beats shares and real estate How to turn 2 hours of work into a potential income stream that can pay you ongoing. The step-by-step process I would use to build my 6 figure business from scratch How almost anyone can potentially make money without a website, web traffic, or even talking to anyone Why these special income streams don't need special skills or experience of any kind to get started in learning about it All you have to do to join this free online workshop is go here: " Loophole on Amazon... seriously? It's bad enough that some Authors are using/being encouraged on some FB Groups and some forums to AI to churn out plots and/or write cookie-cutter books... Sorry, I'm grumpy.
It's a scam. Here's an article on Vox exposing it: https://www.vox.com/culture/24128560/amazon-trash-ebooks-mikkelsen-twins-ai-publishing-academy-scam To paraphrase Monty Python: scam, scam, scam, scam, scam, scam, scam, eggs, bacon, sausage, and scam. I DON'T LIKE SCAM!!! Don't make a fuss dear, I'll eat your scam, I love it ... ============= Jokes aside, this has been happening for months -- years, even. Amazon doesn't police its own shelves against scams, so it's part of the problem. Don't shop there. Don't advertise your book on it. I know that's a drop in the ocean for Jeff Bezos, and would trouble him as much as the "I'm never coming back here again!!!"-type customers would trouble something like McDonald's or Pizza Hut ... or Starbucks. But we have to start somewhere. The question we have to ask is this: how much horseshit are we prepared to swallow, call ice-cream, and say "Please sir, may I have some more?" Otherwise, let's be ready to be invaded by Vikings who sing "Lovely scam! Wonderful scam!" Ugh.
Yep all these supposed loophole schemes are scams. There isn’t a loophole that allows him to get paid 5 figures a month if you think about it if he really made five figures a month he wouldn’t be desperately trying to sell courses via paid Facebook ads
*LOL* That's a very good point. To risk veering into politics for a second: if a certain orange-haired ex-president was worth so much money back in the mid-1990s, why did he get all those books ghost-written to tell others how to make as much money themselves, or create a university to teach people how to do it...? Because they were all scams, of course. And here's another question: if he was worth so much, why the heck was he shilling for Pizza Hut, and Oreos, and ... $deity$ help us ... McDonald's? *shudder*
That’s a bit different, people who are rich wanting to be richer and or stroking their ego by wanting people to admire them however the people posting adverts like the above are nonentities that no one cares about… they don’t have six figure businesses … there’s a whole industry of houses, cars, even static private jets where “ influencers” can have their photos taken in order to pretend to be rich Some of them are out and out scammers, others are trapped in MLMs where the only way they can make their money back is to recruit more mugs to the scheme if you think about it logically it’s hard to make money selling ebooks on Amazon unless you have a series and repeat reader buy in. If the books you are selling are AI generated trash then it’s harder still to break even let alone make a profit so they certainly aren’t making 10,000 plus a month it’s far easier to sell courses on how to get rich quick exploiting loopholes that don’t actually exist
Ah, right. I was wondering what an "influencer" is -- that term gets bandied about a lot nowadays, but I've never seen a definition. *shrug* Google defines it as "a person with the ability to influence potential buyers of a product or service by promoting or recommending the items on social media." That ... actually sounds a lot like an evolution of old-fashioned advertising (in print media or on radio/TV). People who are already rich can be "influencers" too and get richer, sure (e.g. Kylie Jenner, Dwayne Johnson). But someone like Trump advertising for fast food ... I'm sorry, but if he's worth as much as he says he is, then he doesn't need the money. He's just being a shill. (Sorry to grump about that, but ... ugh). =( If you're making pots and pots of money doing something creative, and you choose to do a commercial, you are artistically suspect to me ... unless you're in the position of someone like Willie Nelson. *shrug* Owing millions to The Man, I guess, forced him to sell his soul to Taco Bell so he could pay his tax bills. OK, obviously those people are exceptions. Most of the "influencers" are average Joes/Janes trying to make a buck ... and as you say, some of them are plain scammers. (I wasn't sure what you meant by "MLM", so I looked that up -- multi-level marketing. Yuck! This used to be called "pyramid schemes" ... like Amway). *shudder* And yes, it's hard to break through on Amazon unless you're already an author with an established series and repeat readers. But that, again, puts you in the same position: how do you become an author with an established series? *shrug* And yes, of course someone who creates AI-generated trash will not make $10,000 a month. So it makes sense that they will sell "get-rich-quick" courses that won't get you anywhere. It sounds very much like Trump University and other scams.
You'd think grifts would have to evolve significantly in order to stay effective, but it's the same old pitch for new marks. I suspect an intentionally irrational denial, rather than ignorance, on the marks' part.
It’s like with the 419 scams they are deliberately poor grifts because they want to only entrap stupid people
LOL! Of course they do. I know I'm generalising here, but ... smart people are less likely to fall for grifts. Grifters are similar to politicians. Neither of them will ever go broke appealing to the lowest common denominator.
That was all I needed to see. Classic get rich scam. If someone had legitimately found something like this, why advertise it, and reduce your own income? Plus how exactly is scamming suckered out of their money, a new and different strategy? There are plenty of so called TV/Radio preachers who use the same strategy to scam senior citizens. Not attacking prechers, just saying like any other group, they have some bad apples among their numbers.
OK, that's it. *dons his horned helmet and furs, jumps on the table and sings at the top of his lungs* Spam, spam, spam, spam Spam, spam, spam, spam *the other Vikings join in* Luvverly spam! Wonderful spam! (Spam, spam, spam) Luvverly spam! Wonderful spam! Spaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaam Spaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaam Spaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaam Spaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaam Luvverly spam! (Luvverly spam!) Luvverly spam! (Luvverly spam!) Luvverly spam! Spam, Spam, Spam, SPAM!!
Selling his course is likely how he is making his money. This is a basic FOMO scam, fear of missing out. Someone is taking the quote "There is a sucker born every minute" * too seriously. *The quote is commonly attributed to P.T. Barium, but has not been verified
