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Please note: I copied this essay from http://web.wt.net/~markb1/pyramid/gpg.html. I did this rather
than just link to the page because I originally linked to this same story posted on another site that has since disappeared. I think this is a very good essay about the group and I did not want it to disappear from the face of the internet like before...

An Essay on GPG, Paul Rawlins, and why GPG is in deep stuff

 

The Original Revised Updated and Lengthy GPG Essay (February, 1998)

Hello everyone. Since it’s been over a month since I posted my original Essay on GPG (1/23/98), I thought it might be useful to update y’all on new information about the group, plus to correct and clarify parts of my prior essay that needed attention. So, read on...

Avoid the Global Prosperity Group (GPG), or any of its recent mutant offspring, at all costs, folks. In this updated essay, I will discuss several of GPG’s problems and why it is immoral, unethical, fraudulent, and ultimately doomed to fail.

I apologize in advance to the webmaster for the size of this post, and also to all the other folks out there who’ve had it up to their eyeballs with the Global Prosperity Group. Please indulge us a little more because there is increasing evidence that GPG’s time is running out. The heat is on all over the country. It is worthwhile to note, however, that the GPG "war" has claimed more than one fraud page on the internet, and it shouldn’t be too surprising if others fall by the wayside, too. GPGers will go to great lengths to protect their scamming gravy train. Hopefully though, this scam will be stopped permanently and soon.

Also, I take it as a given that a substantive and well-thought out reply from a GPGer to my major points below (i.e., one that doesn’t simply resort to tired old scripts, or personal insults about my ancestry, work ethic, or intelligence) is about as likely as Clinton joining the priesthood.

So...

You may ask what makes me qualified to say anything of value about this. Good question!

Here are my qualifications:
1) I was in GPG for four months, from September through December, 1997. I went to the live conference calls, the training calls, the team meetings, the directors’ meetings, and I followed all the directions and suggestions made by all the trainers and leaders, including taping myself on the phone talking with people, buying a phone headset, etc. I did what I was told to do to be successful. In short, I have an insider’s experience. It also means I was successfully scammed! 2) Paul Rawlins was my director. I did many 3-way calls with him or his wife, and I know his story, and what he tells prospects and how he tells them. More on that shortly.
3) In the last several months, I have spent some time doing research on GPG on the internet and in person over the phone with persons either still in or formerly in GPG, and/or who are familiar with GPG and its history and founders. I have contacted more than 30 people around the country, some of whom were in GPG, are in GPG now, or know or knew the founders of GPG and its history. By way of preview, what I have discovered is pretty gross in terms of deceptions, fraud, and simple greed with little thought for the welfare of others, even though GPG claims to be extraordinarily concerned with creating wealth and freedom in the lives of ordinary people. It ain’t so.

How I came to be involved with GPG:

I am a university professor with a PhD in Marriage and Family Therapy, so in answer to some of the remarks made by Paul and others, I do have a real job, a real career. In fact, along with my university duties, I have a part-time private practice. Basically, I am not looking for more ways to occupy my time, especially on things that will not give me a return. In August of 1997, I received an unsolicited but impressive-looking postcard which said (with capitals in the original):

"$8000 to $10000 possible your first 4 to 6 weeks...Dear Mark, Do you have the desire to make $10000+ per month, starting your first month and increasing thereafter? How does a STRONG SIX FIGURES IN 1997, and a realistic MILLION DOLLAR YEAR IN 1998 sound? I have done it and so can you!!! If you can bring desire and an honest effort to the table, we can show you how to NEVER WORRY ABOUT MONEY AGAIN!!! Call John Jaworski toll free at 1 800 322-6169, ext. 2462 and we’ll share it with you!!! "

Sincerely,
BJ Bishop

The card was postmarked from Lewisville, TX, which is just North of Dallas. Underneath the signature was a P.S. that read "honest, ethical, not MLM, 24 hour message."

So I called and I listened to a 2 minute recorded message that said, "My name is Dave Struckman, and I’d like to introduce you to an exciting new wealth-building program that is more powerful than any direct sales, multi-level, franchise, or investment opportunity in existence today. This opportunity is so powerful that, within weeks, you will actually develop a steady cash income of over two to five thousand dollars a week..." blah blah blah. He went on to say that some people refuse to believe this because they’ve been conditioned to believe that making any "real income must be immoral, unethical," etc. He then said that such thinking is wrong and you have to toss that out the window if you ever hope to make a change in your finances. "We’re looking for a few quality individuals, leaders...who are interested in developing total wealth and freedom not just in their own lives, but also in the lives of others"...blah blah blah, very noble. It sounded very interesting, but it really doesn’t say much at all about what this business is. The recording finished by inviting me to leave my number and "someone would call me back." So, I did.

Parenthetically, recently some of the messages on GPG 800#s have beefed up the income claims, from 2 to 5 thousand a week to 3 to 7 thousand a week. I’d guess there’s been a major falloff of recruiting, so the numbers have had to be adjusted significantly upward to have the desired effect on prospects.

Anyway, within the next few days, John Jaworski called me back and took me through the GPG system of recorded and live calls. He was following a script (I discovered that after I joined) wherein he talked about our not wasting time, so he wanted to ask me a few questions "to make sure it’s worth both our time to continue." He asked me what I did for a living, how I liked it, whether I was seriously looking for a good opportunity, what I wanted in a business--the qualities that would be appealing to me. By doing this, he was gaining information he could use now to make sure whether I was a bonafide prospect and use later to close the deal. By the way folks, this is generally good selling strategy, so GPG does use some smart selling tactics. Anyway, he asked me how much money I wanted to make each month "part-time from home." I said that even two thousand dollars would be great (after all, I was pretty skeptical about being able to make the postcard’s claimed numbers, and I thought even half of that would be great, certainly more than adequate), and he asked me what I wanted the money for. I wanted to get out of debt, pay off consumer debt and school loans, etc. I wasn’t looking to become rich. John then asked me if I had "$1500 to invest into my future." That put up some warning lights. $1500 is not small change to most folks, me included, so I said it was possible, but I would need a lot more convincing. We proceeded. The next step involved me calling right then (at my expense) 1 904 654-7727, ext. 3761, to listen to a 9 minute introduction to the business. John would call me back in 12 minutes.

Now as an aside, this is where John blew it, according to GPG dogma. Some GPG trainers, like BJ Bishop, will tell you that unless prospects are really motivated to make $5000 a month or more, they’re not qualified and you shouldn’t take them any further. Most average GPG folks, though, are willing to take anyone willing to be taken, and they don’t care how much prospects want to make as long as they’re willing to come up with the dough. Maybe I should have never been taken through the system. But then if I hadn’t been, Paul Rawlins wouldn’t have made any money off of me or off of anyone I brought in. So, I suggest that if people are willing to pay, GPGers will generally take them regardless of whether or not they’re "good" prospects.

As evidence of that, on one team training conference call, Paul did a live prospecting call with a guy out in California who was clearly not playing with all his cards at the time (as a mental health professional, I can say that with some confidence). It took Paul a good 8 or 10 minutes to get through the ordinarily 2 minute script with the guy, and it was clear that he wasn’t getting things very clearly. He was running off on wild tangents about God, the environment, and money, but Paul stuck tenaciously to his script. The guy was all over the lot, and Paul had to give him the 9 minute introduction call number several times and reiterate that he (Paul) would call him back in 12 minutes. By the time he hung up, those of us listening were having the hardest time not laughing hysterically. I remember thinking that this guy was a waste of time and there was no way he’ d get involved, and I even said that on the call, adding that even if he did I couldn’t imagine him being a success at selling. A couple days later, Paul told me that the guy paid him $7000 to come in at the "Premier" level. If that’s true, Paul made some money, but I really have a hard time thinking the guy is going to be successful. Should he have been accepted?

So much for the nobility of helping others create wealth and freedom...Seems to me that if I know with some confidence that a given individual is very unlikely to succeed because they have the social skills of a turnip, I am really lying to them by telling them they’ll do great, and I’m being unethical by happily accepting their money, all the while knowing they have a snowball’s chance in Phoenix of succeeding. Ah, but I’m getting ahead of myself.

Back to my story: I called the 904 number and listened to BJ Bishop and Richard Kasdan tag team back and forth about the qualities any business must have to be successful, who and what GPG is, and what GPG’s product is. Among the things I heard on this call was that GPG has "over a 3 year proven track record of success," that "you do not do the selling, you let the system do the selling for you," and that people average "2 to 5 sales a week." They also said that some members are "making a high five figure, and some, a six figure income monthly, that’s right I said monthly, and all with under a $1500 startup." They ended the call with "putting out a challenge" to me to get back to John to schedule myself for the live presentation call, where I’d even have the chance to ask questions. Well, I waited for John to call me, he did, and I accepted his invitation to a live conference call.

It was all quite slick, I must say. I was skeptical, but I thought that this might be the real thing (i.e., a "real" business opportunity that I could succeed with), especially as I recognized that the product was purported to be "legal, financial, and privacy strategies that few people are privy to," not shampoos, long distance telephone, or other "stuff" that I had been unsuccessful with in a couple of MLM businesses over the years. Also, the testimonials on the live call focused on the income and how great it is, and I thought that if I were even only half as successful as they were saying I’d be, I’d do very well.

Here is also where I’ve been beaten up by GPG folks. They say that since I failed with a couple other MLMs, that proves I’m 1) lazy, 2) unmotivated, 3) a quitter, and 4) not suited for business at all. Well, if that’s all true, then why does GPG go to such great lengths to highlight that this is NOT multilevel marketing, and in fact, you should be excited because this is one business where you don’t need to sell and you don’t have to deal with all the MLM failure stuff? In fact, GPG is stated to be precisely for the person who is looking for all the teamwork, training, and support that assures your success that MLM doesn’t offer. Some of the most successful GPGers are even claimed to be multiple MLM failures.

Curiously, looking back now, the amount of information about the product, the Keith Anderson "Gateway to Financial Freedom" home study course, was minimal, only about 5 or 6 minutes at most, which is barely longer than the 9 minute intro call’s discussion of it. I should’ve noted right there that we’re probably talking about a lightweight product. Plus, I don’t remember any of the testimonies focusing on the product (it may be that someone did; I do know that on all the live calls I went to while I was in GPG, the product was rarely mentioned, and when it was, it was certainly secondary to the business income.).

After we got off the conference call, John took me through something called "team building," which outlines how you make money. (Basically, before you can make any money, you have to make two sales, which go to your director as "training sales." I will describe this in some detail shortly.) Then, he introduced me via 3-way call to his director, Paul Rawlins. Paul was all positive. He told me how he had received a postcard in the mail, just like I had, about 14 months ago (keep in mind this is early August, 1997, so that means he got involved around June of 1996), and how he had called an 800# and left a message. A lady named Linda Alcott called him back, took him through the system and he decided that for $1250 he had to see if the kind of money they were talking about was available to him. It sounded great, and he assured me that my concern about market saturation was a non-issue, the amount of time necessary on a weekly basis to be successful was reasonable, and marketing was all taken care of through the use of the "approved vendors list"--i.e., companies that have shown that they "bring the qualified prospects to you," and that marketing could be done with a very limited budget. I also asked John how much time he put in and how long he’d been involved, and how much money he had made. He stated that he put in about 3-5 hours four nights a week, but he’d only been involved for a few weeks. Paul also said that John had just recently gotten serious, so the fact that John hadn’t made any money yet shouldn’t bother me. He still was learning, getting trained, and I was assured he would soon qualify as a director and begin making big bucks. I was about to go on a vacation, so I decided not to make a decision until I got back, but I was very much interested.

When I got back after 2 and a half weeks, I decided to go for it; this was the end of August. The first clue regarding "reality" was apparent in that John had not made a single sale in the two plus weeks I had been gone, but I chose to overlook that; after all, he was "new" to the business. I was John’s second qualifying sale. Plus, I wouldn’t be working with a newcomer like him, I’d be working with Paul, who told me how he’d made as much as $40,000 in a month "just a few weeks ago." Looking back on it now, I joined GPG with way too much naiveté and the promise of getting out of debt or even "six figures" ringing in my ears, and too little research. I was very motivated about generating a strong income as a means to eliminating debt, and the promise of legal tax reduction was certainly of interest too. I told my wife I wanted to do this, and she said (and boy should I have heard this, and me a marriage counselor, too!), "OK, but I don’t want to know anything about this. I believe in you and that you can be successful at anything you put your mind to, so if you want to do this, go ahead. Just leave me out of it--I don’t want to know anything about it." I told her simply, "This has to work."

So I sent a cashier’s check (you cannot send a personal check nor use a credit card for the purchase) for $1250 via overnight courier to Paul payable to "the trust he manages" called Repropria, and I sent another cashier’s check for $35 to GPG, which at the time was in Renton, WA. I also paid $105 to Idea Conferencing for my conference call access for three months and special long distance with Frontier Communications, and I paid I think about $50 to One Plus Marketing for my 800 telephone number (y’know, 1 800 322 6169? my extension was 8843) to set up my voicemail. Paul faxed me a Getting Started Packet which included a checklist of things for the new associate to do to get started. I did all of these: I had 3-way calling installed on my phone, I set up voice mail ("no busy signals!"), I got my binders, my scheduling book, all the right Fax-on-Demands. I also went to the mandatory new associate training call, and then I began going to all the weekly training calls. Once I had taken care of that, I called Paul to go over my marketing plan and set my goals. At this point, I’d spent nearly $1500. The phone bills hadn’t yet started coming, either, and nobody mentioned them much to me, and I hadn’t spent any money marketing yet.

Now, meanwhile, I received the home study course with the tapes. I don’t think I even listened to the first tape until I had been in for a couple of weeks, and I only gave the workbook and pamphlets a cursory look. It didn’t look terribly impressive, but I wasn’t too concerned. I mean, I was busy trying to set up the marketing and doing all the things the new associate is supposed to do to get up and running as soon as possible, plus keep on top of my real jobs’ requirements, not to mention maintain a semblance of family life. I knew I had that much-vaunted 10 day 100% money back guarantee, but in all honesty I was primarily interested in marketing the thing. I also thought that I wouldn’t need the course’s content and the services with Keith Anderson’s office until after I was out of debt and making that major league income. So I didn’t give the course much attention. A big mistake. A mistake that GPG counts on.

Now in the past, GPG people have accused me of trying to market something I didn’t understand, and that in so doing I show myself to be a greedy blankety blank. In my defense, I came in BECAUSE of the income potential, not for the product (does this apply to anyone else?). The product is an incidental, or certainly it was offered to me that way. But you can bet that with a couple of brain cells operating, I knew I needed to know what I was marketing, so I got busy listening to Keith Anderson. So it wasn’t long that I was marketing something I knew nothing about; unfortunately, knowing the tapes’ contents didn’t help me sell them.

In talking with Paul about my goals, he offered me every assurance that they were very doable and making $25 or $30,000 by the end of 1997 should be no problem. He asked me what kind of marketing budget I had, and he reminded me that as a "welcome aboard" he would send out my first 10,000 piece internet mailing (i.e., SPAM) for me absolutely free to "jumpstart my business." Great--more on SPAM in a minute, too. Anyway, I told him I would take a cash advance on a credit card of $2001, and he told me that should be more than adequate for me to be off and running. So I did. He also told me to do exactly what he had done that had made him successful. Trusting him implicitly (he IS a very likable guy on the phone!), I followed his directions to the letter. Here’s what he told me to do and what I did:
1) Purchase 1000 phone leads from a company on the approved vendors list called Team Spirit. Cost: $219. Results: 0. These cold calling leads were JUNK. Lots of wrong numbers, disconnects, etc. A waste of marketing dough.
2) Purchase at least one round of 500 turnkey postcards from Team Spirit (this was what I had received in the mail that got me going in the first place, so I knew that would work!). Cost: $222.50; he suggested that I try to send out a round of postcards every other week at the least. Results: 0. These seemed to get me about 8-15 people calling my 800# and leaving a message. Unfortunately, several of these were people who were not interested quickly once we got into the scripts, and too many were never at the numbers they gave when they said they would be. More wasted marketing dough.
3) Purchase SPAM packages of 10,000 piece internet mailings--e-mail blasts--from a company called E-Mail Pro. Cost for each blast: $100; interestingly, E-Mail Pro was not on the approved vendors list. More about that in a sec. Results: 2 sales. Both of my sales came through e-mail, and my guess is that more and more people find spamming to be attractive. Still, the results were far short of what was promised.
4) Set up an account with a company, also not on the approved vendors list, called Access Service Network; for a monthly fee of $139 (with a $52 one-time initiation fee), I would get 100 phone leads for "opportunity seekers of very high quality." Results: 0. These cold calling leads were better than the Team Spirit ones, but still didn’t produce any sales.

Do the math here and you can see that my $2001 cash advance was going to be drained pretty quickly. So, right off the bat, that is in under a week, I’ve committed about $3500 to the business. When the first $300+ phone bill arrived, too, that was another cost to be figured in.

So, here it is, the beginning of September, and I’m all set. I’m motivated, I believe all I’ve been told, I’ve set aside the time, I’ve done the training, I’m ready. I got to work, and began to put in about 10-15 hours a week at the business. For anyone wanting to suggest that my work ethic was poor, I offer you these points:

1) when I fork out $3500 for a business, I am not gonna put in a weak effort. I don’t make a couple calls and then watch TV for a half hour and come back. There were 3500 reasons why I wanted to be successful and 3500 reasons reminding me of how this had to work. My reason for getting in was to get out of debt, so when I had to go further into debt to start, I was even more motivated. When the original cash advance was depleted, I decided to take another $1000 out on a cash advance, fortunately not all of which was used. But I was all the more motivated by even more money in, a total of about $4000.
2) I went to the training calls and practiced my scripts to the point of where I didn’t need them in front of me to do them. In fact, years ago I had been the top-selling telemarketer for a company that sold printer ribbons to companies with computers. I have had quite a bit of phone selling success.
3) My wife began to resent my phone time because it took me out of the family most nights and a fair amount on weekends. If I had been a bum, she wouldn’t have had much to complain about.

I talked to a lot of people, and I took several through the system. In fact, my second week I had my first sale. Wow, I thought. Just one more and then I’ll be making money. That sale went to Paul, of course, so now he’s made $2500 from me or my efforts. My next (and final) sale came in early November in my 9th or 10th week. I was not moving along as rapidly as GPG said I should be, but I still thought things would get better and it would work more or less as promised. That second sale went to Paul, too, so now he’s made $3750 from me or my efforts. The second guy, I have learned, has made his two qualifying sales, too, but I don’t know whether he has made a third. So, here it is March and I don’t know if he’s made anything, and Paul’s made $6250 indirectly or directly from me. Not bad for Paul. (Actually, he’s made more than that from the downline of his I joined at Access, and he’s pocketed all the money I sent for SPAM packages from E-Mail Pro, but I’ll get to that in just a minute...)

In mid-December, I still hadn’t made any money, and I ran out of marketing money (after all, I still had at least one fat phone bill to pay, so I couldn’t exactly zero out my account). So I decided that before I put in more money (good money after bad?), I would do some more intensive research on GPG and the experiences of others in the association who I had never heard of, that is, ordinary folks, not the trainers and superstars. I also was aware that the time to renew my association membership was near, and by January 2, the GPG computer would begin to wipe out all associates who hadn’t sent in their renewals. I decided to wait on the renewal until I knew what I wanted to do, and at this point I was leaning very heavily toward getting out. But I still needed to do some more "due diligence."

What I found convinced me that GPG is bad news. When I dug deeper and thought more about the whole thing, I came to the conclusion that it is immoral and unethical, and it is certainly doomed to collapse at some point, probably sooner than later. Basically, GPG is a fraud that is predicated on luring prospects in with tremendous income potential, soaking them for marketing money (many of the "upline" types in GPG make money from the marketing of their associates in addition to the purchase price because they own the marketing companies that provides leads), and then casting them aside if they don’t continue in the escalation of the pyramid through all three levels. Most people lose money in the 4 figures in GPG, and the loss of money by many is how a precious few (or it would be better to say opportunistic and conscience-less) con artists start off toward big incomes. This is classic pyramid stuff.

Why GPG is a Scam:

To explain why GPG is not too far removed from the Titanic, I’ll first use Paul Rawlins’ posts below, and then discuss some other important, maybe little known facts about GPG.

First, though, I want to address an error that many GPG critics make when they say you can’t make money with GPG. Well, that’s wrong, and pro-GPGers like to say how successful they’ve been. Some have no doubt been frighteningly successful. And because they’ve been successful at making money, they say that proves that GPG is "the real deal."

Faulty logic. Just because you can make money with something doesn’t make it legitimate. If making money were the sole criterion for legitimacy, crime would be a very rewarding career choice. For those who like excitement with their selling, there’s mugging, drug-dealing, and armed robbery. For those who prefer less direct approaches, there’s embezzlement, investment fraud and insider trading. All these can be wonderfully profitable, but none are legitimate.

You can bet, too, that most of the occupants in the above careers would argue that they are indeed legitimate. Few people do wrong and admit it is just plain wrong. There’s a reason, an excuse, or something that makes it right. So it is with GPG. Also, for many in GPG, this is their bread and butter, their full-time job. Few people like to think they’re ripping people off, so they turn a deaf ear to legitimate problems; and some find that their consciences get "turned off" at a certain income level. One of the things that helped me get out was recognizing how difficult it was to tell people things that hadn’t come true for me, and I even found myself telling little white lies to keep them interested. I’m ashamed of that, but it did make me realize I was scamming. Also, GPGers don’t want their gravy train to end. So I don’t expect too many of them to see the light; nor do they want others to see it. When I first talked to someone who said they’d heard some less than honorable stuff about GPG, I dismissed it because I didn’t want to think I’d joined up with trouble. Over time, though, there was just too much evidence to ignore. I’ve since called several prospects, including one I sold, and apologized for scamming them. In fact, I’m very thankful I never made any money with GPG because sooner or later I’d have realized what I was doing and then I’d be morally obligated to pay back the people I scammed. That would’ve put me in a bad spot seeing as how I would’ve used my "profits" to pay off debt that I would have to re-incur to make things right. Boy, would that have been messy!

Now, on to Paul. Here’re Paul’s two common posts that you have no doubt seen all over the place on these boards, perhaps less so recently as he has become more literarily inclined with the moving Story of the Mexican Crabs, and then just the other day, the Story of the Woman with the Black Hood and Green Barter Papers. Anyway, number 1 is by far the most common one he has used in the past, and it is representative of the marketing ploys often used by GPGers...

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I am with the Global Prosperity Marketing Group. First, let me say that this is not multi-level marketing. We're looking for a few quality individuals to join our marketing group. All the work is done over the phone and moderate people skills would be required, but I don't do any sales work (selling) and neither will you.

1. Are you a person that is motivated to earn $5 - $10,000 per week, given the right opportunity?
2. When you can see clearly that this business opportunity will net you $10 - $20,000 per month within the next month or two, do you have $1,500 to invest into your future?

If your answers are yes , then the next step is to completely educate you on this opportunity and to get you all of the information you will need to make an educated business deciction. The first step is for you to call and listen to a 9 minute introduction to our company to see if this is of interest to you. That number is 716-723-2719, call this number and then call me, at 734-513-4095 and I'll get you additional information.

Now, I'm going give you something to think about, I'm a relative newcomer to the business and I'm already working with people making $50,000 a month and more, and I'm doing quite well myself. I came aboard GPG, and in three months I was able to make this my income, (developing a six figure income) thanks to the team work and turn key support system, but my point is this, we have a level playing field here each and everyone of us has the same opportunity. Listen to that 9 min. call intently, then call me and we'll take this one step at a time, fair enough?

Looking Forward To Your Call
Paul Rawlins
800-784-1719 Ext. 1565
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By the way, the number above is misprinted; it should 1710, as it is below. But that’s irrelevant now, as Access Service Network about 2 weeks ago revamped their 800 number system, and Paul has a new one that he posts with.

And number two, which is another standard marketing piece...
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You now have the opportunity to join the most extraordinary and most powerful wealth building program in the world! you have the opportunity to take a close look at this program.

If you're skeptical, that's okay. Just make the call and see for yourself. My job is to inform you, your job is to make your own decision.

If You Didn't Make $200,000.00 Last Year... You Owe It To Yourself And Your Family To Give Our Program Serious Consideration!

Also, when you start making this kind of money within weeks, after joining our team, you will actually learn how you can preserve it and how to strategically invest it!

I invite you to call me for more details at 1-800-784-1710 Ext 1565.
This is a free 2 minute recording, so call right now!
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Ok!! Sounds exciting, huh? Well, let’s "get fully educated" about this, shall we? I’m an educator, so let’s see how well I do...

1) Both of these posts are scripts. Or combinations of scripts (that I have, too), but basically, Paul is not offering an original comment. What he is doing is advertising on the scam boards. He is literally recruiting! And he’s recruiting for the business, not the product. That’s what you do in a pyramid. Why is he doing this? Beats me. That’s like telling folks you have good tickets for the Titanic, even after it hit the iceberg. Maybe Paul is hoping that folks who are gullible enough to have been scammed before will be scammable again (this was part of the demise of the Fraud Forum several months ago, but you can check that out yourself). Sadly, he may be right, or at least right enough to make a couple of sales. Certainly, the GPGer who claimed to have signed 3 people up after having had them read the messages on the boards is evidence that that could happen. On the other hand, if they decided to get in after reading all these posts, then they might just deserve each other! Only a true moron or someone evil would sign on after being exposed to all this bad P.R.

2) Another interesting point is that Paul uses the word "company," which is a GPG no-no. This suggests that the scripts are older scripts, which means that things may have changed significantly since Paul got involved 20 or so months ago. Actually, things have changed a lot since Paul got in, but more on that later. GPG is now an association. Actually, GPG as an organization doesn’t really exist in physical space. It has a post office drop box in Henderson, NV, after having been chased out of Washington state in October of 97, where it had a similar setup in a strip mall. Interestingly, there is no listing for GPG in the address it provides for itself as 2245 N. Green Valley Parkway, Suite 640, Henderson, NV 89014. That is, nothing with the name Global Prosperity Group Association comes up when you go to the directory in Henderson, NV with that address.

So what, right? How does this prove that GPG is fraudulent? It doesn’t prove it, but it certainly casts LARGE doubt about its legitimacy.

But I’m not done yet, either.

3) GPGers go to great lengths to point out that it is NOT multi-level marketing (as Paul states upfront above), as if the latter has some sort of disease attached to it. They really like to whup up on MLM, and on the live calls they’ll say how GPG is your only option where you can make money, unlike "the documented one half of one percent that ever make a six-figure income" with MLM. GPG, they say proudly, is not MLM, it’s a direct sales traditional business.

You know what? They’re right, in part anyway. GPG is NOT multi-level marketing. Too bad. MLM, shady as many companies are, can be a legitimate business. GPG can’t.

GPG is really a pyramid masquerading as a direct sales networking business. How’s that? Glad you asked. Remember team-building? Let me explain how it works using my old team building script, which by the way came from Paul and was edited to include ideas from BJ Bishop (who interestingly is Paul’s director):
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"All right, on the live call you heard that you need six sales in addition to your own to qualify, and that’s absolutely true. But we’ve learned that the real key to making serious money here is by helping people to become successful quickly. So we decided that rather than have everyone come in and personally make six sales, we’d just team people up together and have everyone commit to contributing just two personal sales each. That sets everyone up to share the same sales and work as a team so that everyone gets qualified quickly.

Let me show you how this works. Do you have a piece of paper? OK, on the left side of the paper at the top, write your name, and then underneath that write down the numbers 1 thru 8 going straight down the paper. Now I’m going to show you how we help you get qualified very quickly, and as they said on the call, the average time that people are getting qualified as a director is about 2 to 6 weeks.

OK, circle you. You come in and purchase your course and you get that immediately. Now, circle #s 1 and 2. These are the people I am personally going to team you up with. Now right there, you’re already one third of the way toward qualifying with 2 sales underneath you in your team. Now with my help, and the training calls and the conference calls, the system that really does most of the work for us, we are going to go out and find you the 2 personal sales you need to get qualified. For this example, we’ll put your two sales into positions 3 and 4, so circle those. Now, #1 and #2, your teammates, are going to do the exact same thing as you, and with my help and the system, they’re going to get their 2 sales that they need to qualify. So we’ll put #1’s sales into positions 5 and 6 (circle those), and #2’s sales into positions 7 and 8 (and circle those). Now, you’re a qualified director, and so are #s 1 and 2, because each of you has 2 personal sales and at least 6 in their team. Do you see that?

So you and your teammates only needed 2 personal sales, the team got the rest, and it was all due to the way your were placed in that particular line. Positioning is very important with this system, and as you can see, being at the top as you were in this example has its advantages, and that’s determined simply by who pays first, being that we work on a first come, first served basis. So, do you understand how you get qualified?

Great. Now that you understand qualification, let me show you how you’re going to go about making some serious money. We’re going to draw an example of what we call your first pay panel, and also show you exactly how people using this team building concept are easily making $5K a week and more. OK, to the right of the example we just drew, write down a row of numbers, 1 thru 9, going straight down the page.

You’re a qualified director because you’ve made your two personal sales, right? OK, your next 3 sales are #s 1, 2, and 3 in this panel in front of you. Circle them, and draw a line from each circle to your name. These are the people that you will team up together, just like I teamed you up with #s 1 and 2 in the first panel. Do you see that?

As their director, each of these people will pay you $1250, so write $1250 on each line, which is $3750 total for you, minus 10% for the product cost. Now with your help, my help, and the training and conference call system that does most of the work, we’re going to help each of them to do exactly what you did and produce their 2 personal sales to qualify, and as the director, all of those sales will each pay you. #1’s two sales will go into slots 4 and 5 and that’s $2500 for you, #2’s sales will go into slots 6 and 7, another $2500 for you, and #3’s sales will go into slots 8 and 9, again another $2500 for you. At this point, you have now grossed over $11,000, and helped turn #s 1, 2, and 3 into directors, do you see that?

Now they’re independent of you, and they are going to go build their own pay panels, just like you’re doing now. But you still have the people in slots 4 thru 9, and when each of these 6 people get the 2 sales that they need to qualify, that’s another $2500 to you from each of those 6 people. When that happens, you’ve now grossed over $26,000, and that can happen in your first couple of months. Keep in mind, too, that this panel will still continue to grow. Do you understand all that?

Also, you’re going to be building more than just one panel. You may have 2 or 3 going at the same time. So I think you can see how with this system people are making 5 and 10 and even 20 or more sales a week in this business. Pretty exciting, don’t you think?

OK, but there’s more. Let’s say you’re the average associate, and once you qualify you make just two sales a week, even though the average like they said on the call is 2 to 5 sales a week--let’s be conservative here. Six or seven months down the road from now, so by ______ of this year at two sales a week, you’ll have made about $50,000. How will you feel about that?

Right, well after making $50,000, it would make sense to cash leverage out $6250 to take the next step and go to the Global II 4 day seminar. This will do 2 things for you. First, you’ll be able to make use of the information at the seminar, which as they said on the call may be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars or more, so this’ll take you to another level all by itself. But the other thing is that you are now a Global II associate, and that means that you can begin to market Global II. The great thing about this is that you don’t have to go find anybody new for G2 because when each of the people in your organization is ready to move up to G2, they’re going to come thru you. So instead of them paying you $1250, they’re now going to pay you $6250, of which you keep 90%. Your profits will increase by a factor of 5, so if you make 2 G1 sales and 2 G2 sales a week, that’s over $12,000 a week. How would you manage that?

So, can you see how people are making $5K a week and more very easily here? Isn’t this exciting?"
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Well of course it’s exciting! It’s also blindly optimistic, deceptive, and designed to appeal to a person’s greed, as well as to get them emotionally charged up with dollar signs in their heads effectively silencing their cognitive better judgment. And it works, too (it worked on me!). But it also shows the OBVIOUS pyramid system at work, at more than one level.

As the team-building clearly shows, especially at the G1 level, GPG people make their money recruiting, and that’s it. Despite all their claims that half of the association is interested in the product alone and does not market it, the truth is that if you don’t recruit and sell to people who want to make money by marketing it also, you don’t make money. Not once in my four months with GPG did I ever talk to someone who was interested in the product alone. Every prospect I talked to was looking first at the income. For most, we could have been selling real estate on the Moon or something, and they wouldn’t have cared because it was the income that drew them. Paul will tell you himself that he got in because he "had to see if the kind of money they were talking about was available" to him.

More evidence for this is found in the fact that all of those marketing companies, such as Team Spirit, etc., target business opportunity seekers in their advertising. Nobody’s seriously going after folks who are interested in tax and asset protection strategies. If they were, don’t you think that the focus of the live calls would be much more heavily on the product? But it’s not, and as I said, they really gloss over the Keith Anderson course in a matter of a few minutes. On the live calls, there is often some poor soul who asks a question like, "So, what’s the product?" to which the host usually replies with an "isn’t this guy a stooge for not listening?" attitude and then goes on to reiterate the scripted Gateway to Financial Freedom description in even shorter fashion. The money is in the recruiting, and make no mistake about that. If the recruiting stopped tomorrow, GPG would drop off the planet and the income would be gone.

When you have to recruit someone to make money and you do so by selling them a product of little or no real value that they in turn will sell to people because they believe it to be a means to generate the income, you are conducting a pyramid scheme. GPGers will vehemently argue that the product is very valuable; in fact, as they say on the introduction call and on the live calls, "the information contained in the course along with the consultations is valued by industry professionals at between $7000 to $10,000." Wow, what a deal! But wait a sec, who are these illustrious and unnamed industry professionals? I don’t know, but I’d bet that these folks aren’t very far removed from GPG itself. Seems sort of incestuous to me.

The only conclusion here is that GPG is a pyramid, desperately trying to look like a traditional direct sales network business. When it’s naked, though, without all the dust clouding it that GPGers try to kick up, it is very clearly a pyramid.

4) No selling required? Paul’s first ad above also contains the outright lie of "I don’t do any selling and neither will you." Horse hockey! Of course it’s selling, and you will do it (if you hope to make any money). If there were no selling, then obviously no money would change hands and there’d be nothing to write about GPG on the scam boards. I wish there wasn’t selling! But there most assuredly is.

GPGers even tell their prospects that they’re not trying to sell them anything. Melissa Foster, who is one of the nicest-sounding people you’d ever want to hear (check her out at 800 322 6169 ext. 2654), does a cold-calling training call twice a week. Her script includes the statement to her prospect, "I’m certainly not trying to sell you anything" and then she proceeds to invite the person (hopefully via answering machine) to call and listen to a free 2 minute presentation about a business opportunity. BJ Bishop says the same thing in his script. (And just to underscore my last point about GPG being a pyramid, if the product was what drove the business, why would they target business opportunity seekers only? If it was truly a near-steal at $1250, instead of the "valued" $7000+, don’t you think that people would be falling all over themselves trying to get this hot little puppy in their hands?)

I remember a training call with BJ where someone gently challenged him about whether he was being honest by saying that (remember, BJ is a major player in GPG and is on the Global Leadership Council, so such a question to such a guru takes some guts). BJ’s answer was that he thought it was fine, but if you’re not comfortable saying that, then just leave it out. Not exactly a confidence boosting reply in support of some moral absolute regarding truth.

But there is selling. Now they try to get around that by saying "you don’t do the selling yourself, you just plug people in to the system and let the professionals do the selling, training, etc. for you." It’s so easy, even someone with single digit IQ numbers can do it, you’re led to believe. "Folks, you can do this" is said on every live call.

This leads to a major problem. Why would they go to such great lengths to try to say they don’t sell, you won’t have to sell, etc.? In fact, again if the product were truly the greatest thing since sliced bread as they claim it is, why in the world wouldn’t they be proud to sell the dang thing???

I have a couple of theories. First, the product is anemic. They know that, so that’s why the income is the focus. Second, many people will dismiss out of hand any business where they have to sell something. Why? Because selling is hard work! Not everyone can do it. So if we convince folks that all they gotta do is follow the scripts (which is Paul’s explanation for his success; also Paul has just recently posted that IT’S NOT HARD WORK; so which is it? Do you have to work, or is it just as easy as falling off a log????), they’ll jump in and of course pay the $1250. By the time they have realized that they do have to sell, it’s too late to get their money back. In fact, that starting up checklist is designed to take several days, thereby distracting the poor sucker like myself away from the chintzy product that they might well return if they looked closely at it.

Also, by telling someone that you’re not trying to sell them anything, they hopefully will lower their natural skepticism about being contacted by a perfect stranger over the phone. Then, you can slip in the income claims and hook them. They’ll be charged up to make the money and then you can tell them they need to pay you $1250 for the right to market this and make money.

There’s another problem with the selling issue. If the system truly does most of the work, and you don’t do the selling yourself, then why isn’t everyone, or almost everyone, a raving success? If all you need basically is opposable thumbs to be successful at this, then why do GPGers say when pressed to acknowledge failures that the ol’ 80/20 rule applies, where 20% of the people do 80% of the work? If the system is so good, and all you have to do is follow the scripts and smile, just about everyone should make big bucks. In fact, why are you told that you need a good work ethic? It’s so easy that even that shouldn’t be too hard to overcome--I mean, this is a product that is in "huge demand" because "after all, who wouldn’t want to drastically reduce their taxes, and who wouldn’t want to make an extra $5000 to $10,000 per month, part time from home?" Sure sounds easy.

Big income, little work. Sounds like a scam.

Oh wait, you DO have to work. But then you might not be interested, so I’ll tell you how easy it is before you jump in, and only tell you how hard it is once you’re struggling and I’ve got your dough.

It’s only after you’re in for a while that they admit that it really is work. Some will even concede that "maybe GPG isn’t for everyone." So why didn’t anybody do a good job of screening out the people who aren’t well-suited to "business?" Because then they wouldn’t get any money from them. And if you decide then that you’ve been deceived, you’re immediately a whining lazy loser with no motivation and questionable parentage who certainly would’ve failed at any legitimate business anyway.

5) How much and how quickly money is made. A very big deal is made about the income and how quickly you can get your hands on it. The postcard I received wasn’t shy about it, and neither is Paul’s ad. In fact, Paul’s wording is a promise of how much you will make and how quickly you will make it. Too bad promises of income are illegal.

Let’s talk first about how fast you make your money. From the team-building above, and from the live calls, it is said that most people qualify as a director in 2 to 6 weeks. I doubt it, folks. It took me 9 or 10 weeks to qualify, and I think I’m a fairly quick study who is decent on the phone. Plus 6 weeks after I qualified (so 15 weeks or more into the game) I still hadn’t made a third sale; I hadn’t made a dime. But maybe I’m wrong. So I talked to several other GPGers whose phone numbers were on my qualifying panel, and then the folks they referred me to. I found that most hadn’t even qualified at all, and these were people who had been in as long or longer than me. Their explanations tended to be that they weren’t spending that much time on it, but isn’t that how it’s supposed to be done anyway? Or are you supposed to work it full-time?

Another fellow I talked to who is still with GPG and has been moderately successful was very candid and said that most people who join GPG don’t ever qualify because they give up. I can certainly understand that. I wonder what would happen to GPG’s figures if they included all the people who never qualify. These are probably the same people that they claim don’t intend to market the product. Nice explanation. It would certainly help account for the precipitous drop in GPG’s numbers at the start of 1998.

So how many GPGers make the promised (or at least sounds-easy) $10,000 in their first month or two? About the same number of people who win big dollars in the lottery. A few. A very few.

Now, about how much you make. The statement is made on the live calls that, once qualified, "working directors average 2-5 sales per week." That cannot be true, unless you have a very creative way of defining what a working director actually is. Even if it means fulltime, 2-5 sales a week in IMPOSSIBLE. For proof, let’s do some simple math. Before we get to that, though, we’ve got to organize our players. In my first essay on GPG, I made one mistake that has been cleared up for me by the person posting as Freechoice. S/He explained that almost everyone pays the association fee, regardless of whether they want to market, because it is through the association that you have your ready access to Keith Anderson. GPG says they don’t keep track of who markets and who doesn’t, but they do know how many people have paid the association fee. So even if we accept the preposterous claim that half of the people who buy the product are interested only in the product (where these buyers come from is unknown--they’re certainly not targeted), it still remains that all these sales will show up in the association’s growth. Let’s go with that for now.

In September when I joined GPG, the association was at 14,000 members. Of that, it was said that only half were actively marketing the product. Let’s be real conservative, going even better than the 80/20 rule. We’ll just assume for argument’s sake that only 10% of the 14,000 people were marketing (and as I indicated above, I would bet the farm that much more than that attempt to market it). That would mean that 1400 people market it actively, and let's give them just 2 sales a week (skip the five). With 1400 people making 2 sales a week, that would make 2800 sales for GPG a week. That would mean that the association should go from 14,000 members in week one to 16,800. In week 2, assuming no new marketers, the association would grow to 19,600 members. And so it should continue, with GPG adding 2800 members a week (again, with no new marketers) for 12 weeks or more till year's end; at that rate, over 33,000 new members should've been added, for a total of over 57,000. In fact, by the beginning of March at that same rate, you should expect GPG to be at up over 80,000 members. Well, as of December (which is the last reliable figures GPG published that I’m aware of--see their fax-on-demand profile 1 904 654 7727 ext. 1042), there were 20,000 members, which is a good bit short of the mathematically guaranteed 57,000 plus. So, even with the most friendly numbers, the quoted sales claim is baloney! They don’t make 2-5 sales a week. A few might, but very few. Will you be one of them? Or will you be the one to purchase the winning lottery ticket? It’s almost an even gamble.

Also, all GPG members had to renew their memberships by Jan. 1. I predicted in an earlier post that the association would be at 10,000 or less early this year, because most have not made any money and have discontinued a losing proposition. The word I’ve heard is between 7000 and 8000 people are still with it. Maybe even less. One thing is for sure, if you ask on a live call about how big the association is, you won’t get a straight answer any more. They’ve learned that to give out factual information is to take a beating.

Let’s play with some more numbers. Let’s assume that half of the association DOES market it back in August. That means 7000 GPGers sending out postcards, doing cold calls, spamming, etc. Since we know that at year’s end, the number of GPG people was about 20,000, we can estimate what the average associate does in the way of sales. Let’s take 15 weeks at the end of 1997 (which is really underestimating things, but we want to give the benefit of the doubt here, right?), and figure out what type of sales numbers must’ve happened for things to go from 14,000 to 20,000 with 7000 marketers (again, assuming that nobody new started marketing): We have a net gain of membership over the course of 15 weeks of 6000 coming from 7000 marketers. This means that each marketing associate made less than one sale in 15 weeks!!!!!!!! What???? What happened to 2 to 5 sales EACH week?

Let’s talk about market saturation numbers, too, while we’re at it. With 7000 people sending out 500 postcards a week, calling 100 cold calls a week, and sending out one 10,000 piece internet mailing a week (and I grant that this is theoretical because not everyone does each of these at these rates), that means that (7000 X 10,600 contact efforts) 74,200,000 separate contacts are made each week. Assuming no overlap or duplication, the entire population of about 270,000,000 Americans can expect to hear about GPG in under 4 weeks. My point here is that most of the folks who’d be interested in GPG have probably already heard about it more than once, some have gone through the system, and some have joined. It’s not so new anymore, and it’s only going to get harder to sell. But I’ll come back to this shortly, too.

Dry numbers can be misleading, right? Not in this case, but I’ll go ahead and tell you what I heard from the people I talked to. As I said, most had not even qualified, so they obviously hadn’t made any dough. There were a few who had made some money. But not one person I talked to was making the proverbial 2-5 sales a week. Not one. Must be a bunch of slackers...

Here is where the weak attempt at rebuttal is made with regard to people being unsuccessful for lack of motivation, lack of effort, or wrong motives. On the one hand, if you’re not swimming in cash, that fact may reveal that you’re greedy; your motivation is all wrong. So let’s talk about that for a second, shall we?

They wave these huge income promises around as their initial hooks, like "I’m only interested in working with people wanting to earn $10-20,000 a month..." What’s this supposed to do, activate people’s charity buttons? No, it’s designed to get them salivating about wealth for themselves, and then "in the lives of others" just so we don’t sound quite so selfish. Anyway, MAJOR $$$$$ is the key idea to get people to even bother calling any of their 800#s to start with.

Then, if a person jumps in and works their fanny off, like many people do (some don’t), but things don’t work out as promised, they are lambasted as greedy and/or lazy. Nobody ever allows for the suggestion that the much-vaunted system isn’t quite as powerful as it’s supposed to be. Remember, you let the system do the selling for you, and you just follow the scripts. Or did I miss something? So, you clobber the poor soul for being greedy ("well, geez, I only wanted to make the $2-5000 a week!") or lazy ("if you treat it as a hobby, you’ll get hobby results;" never mind that you’re supposed to be able to do this part time from the comfort of your own home...) or "business is just not for you." HUH?? "Folks, if you bring desire, motivation, and an honest effort to the table, you WILL be successful." Nothing in there about being "suitable" for business.

This is what’s called "blaming the victim." The victim made the mistake, perhaps, of not doing as much research as they should’ve, or believing a little too easily all that they were told. This was true of me. So, I admit, I got scammed, but I helped do it to myself, too, because I wanted it to be true. I’m mad at myself for not seeing the obvious pyramid and for not taking a more thorough look at this. Dumb dumb dumb.

But the scammer is guilty of the greater sin.

6) Low startup costs. Paul says you’ll need $1500 to invest into your future. As I believe I’ve shown, that figure is a serious understatement. The amount of money needed to get started is more than just the course ($1250), the association fee ($35), the conference call system ($105 for 3 months, plus 9 cents/minute or so, depending on the option you choose), and your voice mail. You’d better build in a healthy budget for phone bills (I averaged between $300 and $400 a month) and marketing (you know that’s expensive, what with postcards, phone leads, etc.). And don’t forget that you are spending time, perhaps a lot of it, on this and not getting anything back for it, at least until you qualify. How long should you work without getting paid?

There are some GPG folks who circumvent much of the system and thus hold their costs way down. They do a huge email blast, like 1,000,000 for a couple of hundred bucks, and then use their voicemail system to pick up prospects and take them through a few selected recorded calls. They are not even hooked into the live call system at all and don’t have to pay for it, and they don’t use post cards or any other marketing tactic. It streamlines things, and in fact using recorded calls is safer because on a live call you never know what kind of question might come up that blows the scam apart; you can bet that recorded calls are a "best of GPG" type of thing. So, it may be one way to keep costs down and increase the system’s effectiveness, but at spamming rates like the above, it can only be a matter of time before the market saturation thing kills it.

7) Last item from Paul’s ad. He says he’s a relative newcomer, but he got in around June of 1996. 18 months is a relative newcomer? When do you become an authority on GPG and its operations? The Gateway to Financial Freedom wasn’t even being marketed when you got in, Paul. But again, I’m ahead of myself.

But speaking of Paul, let’s talk some more about him. Then I’ll discuss more about why GPG is doomed, including a little about GPG’s history and likely direction at this point.

Paul Rawlins:

Paul, who lives near Detroit, sounds like a nice guy on the phone, and he has a good sense of humor. I liked him. In my working with him, he was almost always available and always willing to be helpful. He was encouraging to me when I got frustrated. He was respectful to my prospects, except for a guy named Carl from Utah that he hung up on. His wife, DeeDee, is a very nice person, and I liked her, too. I did a few 3 ways with her, and she also was always helpful. In fact, I’m real disappointed that he chose to inundate the scam boards with scripted ads. I had thought more highly of him. Moreover, I must say the more I’ve learned about him, the more despicable he has become. And that’s sad, because I still want to LIKE him.

Looking back now, though, it makes sense that he would be available, supportive, and encouraging to me, especially before I qualified. Why? Because I was working for him. My first two sales went to him, so you’d better believe he’d be motivated to be helpful. His willingness to pay for my first internet SPAM package was part of that. As benevolent as it sounded, it was also simply smart marketing. He’s basically going to spend a little money on me to work for him because he’s going to get my first two sales. But in reality, he DIDN’T spend any money on me at all; it didn’t cost him a thing to send out my first email blast. I’ll explain this in a minute.

Paul will tell you his story when you call him. He’ll tell you what he told me, that x number of months ago, he received a postcard from a lady in Washington state named Linda Alcott, and he called and she took him through the system and he decided he had to see if the money they talked about was real. Curiously, Ms. Alcott dropped out of the picture very shortly after Paul joined--his explanation was she couldn’t handle the success. Say what????? Maybe she discovered she was scamming and quit. His director was BJ Bishop, who hooked him into the turnkey marketing system using USA Today ads, and "to his amazement, he made 5 sales his first two weeks in the business." Of course, he also told me once that after that, he didn’t make a sale for another two weeks or so--never mentioned that to any of my prospects.

(Now, it should be noted that at this time, according to Paul, GPG didn’t have the team-building concept for qualifying--everyone had to make 7 sales on their own, not within a team. Interesting how that changed to 2 personal sales, probably reflecting that the obvious suckers were rapidly coming on board and it would get increasingly more difficult for one person to make 7 sales before they quit and thus end the gravy train. Hmmmmm. Also, the Gateway to Financial Freedom was not the product, and in fact, GPG hadn’t yet been launched as GPG; it was Investor’s International, and they were marketing similar items with the identical pyramid structure, right down to the $1250 costs. More about that in a minute, too.)

Anyway, Paul will also tell you that prior to GPG, he had his own private contracting business, doing home remodeling, etc. I assume he was good at it. DeeDee was an independent paralegal. They both worked a lot. By 3 months, they were making a good enough income for both of them to quit their other work and do GPG full-time. Now, he says, he works 25-35 hours a week and gets to play racquetball during the day with his son after he gets out of his college classes. GPG made all that possible. He’ll say he’s made as much as $40,000 in a month and $12,000 in a week a couple of times. He’ll also tell you that all of his assets are now his, and that they are protected to be left to his children without taxation by the government. It’s all very exciting!

I don’t have any proof that anything he says about his story is untrue. But other stuff that he said to me turned out to be untrue, and over time there were several things that didn’t add up quite right. First, let’s talk about...SPAMMING!



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