Get-Rich-Quick
Schemes:
Earn Easy Money” offers which
promise unusually or even unbelievably high returns for
very little investment of money and/or effort. Probably
all of us have now or then run into offers like “Earn
$3000 every day without lifting a finger” etc.
Of course, there are many Get-Rich-Quick Schemes outside the
realm of Internet marketing – betting, high yield investments,
stock market strategies etc. – but as far as Internet marketing
is concerned mostly a “proven system” is advertised which makes
money automatically.
Without passing a general judgment on all such offers in the
direction of “scams without exception”, care and consideration
is advised before investing in such offers. The sound statement
“if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is” can serve as
a guideline in the assessment of such offers.
[
Rich
goes back to Old
English rice
and is akin to
Latin rex
=
king;
Quick
comes from Middle
English quick
= lively, moving; Old
English cwic
= living and is akin to
Latin vivus
=
living;
Scheme
comes from
Latin schema
= form, figure,
shape]
