Get-rich-quick schemes: The facts

Want to become rich by making easy money fast? Before you participate in an easy money making scheme, find out if it will be worth your time, money and in some cases, relationships. Get your thinking straight by discovering your odds of winning and look at your relationships from a good perspective. Read on for more.

What are the odds of winning the lottery?

Are you a 'lucky' person? Do you know that some quick money making schemes rely on the odds that are akin to winning the lottery? Let's say that you are a regular lottery customer who wins every few months. Then it may be easy to see how you can buy into such schemes. But what if you don't belong to this category of people whom some term as 'lucky'? The average person The other group of people bank in on nothing but false hopes. Depending on how you look at it, this can either seem sad or unrealistic. You must understand that this whole scheme is designed to make the owner and his closest affiliates quick and easy money. As a customer, you either win or lose, but the chances are not 50/50. If you think about it, the odds of winning are probably less than 10 per cent. On this basis and assuming that you are an average person, are you still willing to bet? If you are, what makes you think that you are above average person?

Are you opportunistic?

The early bird catches the worm Some get-rich-quick schemes and ideas require you to act quickly in order to make money. You know what this means, don't you? It is the people who get in early who make all the money. However, getting in the game alone, is insufficient. You need to get in with people who can back you up if you fall. These are people personally recruited by you. If you are fast enough, you make money. Relationship versus money Your recruits obviously have to do the same as you did or they risk losing the money they have invested. And if they lose, you risk your friendships and family ties. From their perspective, you made money at their expense.