{"id":618,"date":"2007-01-22T18:35:49","date_gmt":"2007-01-22T23:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/example.org\/more_about_the_"},"modified":"2007-01-22T18:35:49","modified_gmt":"2007-01-22T23:35:49","slug":"more_about_the_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/?p=618","title":{"rendered":"More about the &#8220;free&#8221; logsplitter scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ripples.typepad.com\/photos\/uncategorized\/logsplitterscam.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=532,height=312,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"250\" height=\"146\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Logsplitterscam\" title=\"Logsplitterscam\" src=\"http:\/\/www.making-ripples.com\/images\/logsplitterscam.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; float: left;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.home-garden-rewardpath.com\/rd_p?p=113082&amp;t=3085&amp;c=465395&amp;gift=17929&amp;a=17929-wood%20log%20splitter\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>home-garden-rewardpath.com<\/strong><\/span><\/a> has a scam going where they offer a &quot;free&quot; logsplitter which is actually a premium for signing up for several expensive services and products. Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.home-garden-rewardpath.com\/info.htm?tp=gift_help&amp;promo_name=dynamicgift&amp;gift=17929\">many pages of fine print<\/a> to see how much you have to buy to earn your &quot;free&quot; logsplitter.<\/p>\n<p>I have recently received some emails that confirmed my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.making-ripples.com\/2007\/01\/beware_the_free.html\">earlier post<\/a> about this company. One of the real giveaways of a scammer is that they generate anonymous emails telling us that the company is really wonderful to deal with, there is no catch and we are maligning a wonderful company, etc., etc.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the latest example of one of these false testimonials:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Name:&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Austin Wolff<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Email:&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; mr.A@hotmail.com<\/p>\n<p>Hello there. Im not sure why you think this site is a scam. First they send you a check in the amount of the log splitter, you do not need to sign up for a ridiculous number of offers, and lastly I have completed this site and MANY others to recieve a good deal of money.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I sent an email to mr.A@hotmail.com:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Austin,<\/p>\n<p>How fascinating!<\/p>\n<p>Tell me more about your experiences with this company.<\/p>\n<p>David<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I got an immediate response that the email address was false. This is the second of these faux recommendations I have received, so until I hear otherwise I am recommending that you avoid this offer as though it was a letter from those friendly Nigerians who want to put money in your bank account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>home-garden-rewardpath.com has a scam going where they offer a &quot;free&quot; logsplitter which is actually a premium for signing up for several expensive services and products. Read the many pages of fine print to see how much you have to buy &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/?p=618\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1816],"tags":[124,1745,1746,1601,1369],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3R4iK-9Y","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}