Can you help others Learn how to Thrive after Internet Fraud?
Posted: Tuesday, September 08, 2009
by Robert Worstell
Worstell Design LLC
There is distance learning, online learning, internet coaching, personalized training, project learning - all ways and types of education, curriculum, and technology to embrace. There are all sorts of schools, Institutes, and learning structures we might or might not attend in this life.
To my mind, they all come back to the simple basic, laid out in so many different ways, but all known as the "Golden Rule" or some way:
This has all sorts of corollaries, a short version - you can't get without giving.
But the point you have to get when learning to Thrive with your life, is that you have to learn that what you get is exactly (and some times many times over) what you are giving.
What seems a long time ago, over 2 years in fact, I signed onto an Internet Scam.
You may have run into something similar. These are called by many names - business opportunity, multi-level marketing, cash gifting, network marketing, pyramid schemes, credit fraud, - they go on and on.
Mine was supposed to be "eBay training through expert internet coaching" but ended up being eBay hobbyists and college students who I ended up teaching.
After I figured out the scam, I went through all various blame games, like how criminal this bunch was - I eventually had to accept the fact that I had agreed to be scammed. Of course that then brings up the lessons of "How could I be so stupid?"
But both of those views are basically wrong. I've never been stupid or easily fooled. And the people who "tricked" me into those packages were not "the devil in a red dress".
(Your mileage may vary on each of these. I'm not living your life for you.)
While there is identity fraud, internet scams, white collar crime, investment fraud and others - they all work down to how they educate their victims - How do we evaluate the learning we've received? What learning games do they play which instruct and teach? Life hands out instruction without regard to needing a teachers, classroom, tutors, or learning systems.
But where I found out was that I was supposed to learn a life-lesson, and I also found out that I was supposed to educate others as well.
You see, the lesson is that if you chose to live your life for others and not yourself, then all manner of good things come to you - exactly in the proportion that you serve others and to that exact quality.
Fraudsters don't really get this - and so I'm trying to fix this by posting this article to the four winds. Internet coaching scammers deal in "adult education" and "e-learning", mostly on some of the "boomer" generation. These scammers use "learning solutions" which are just money scams.
Hear this: If your "business model" is to get as much money from other people as possible and then spend it on yourself, you won't be able to hang on to any of that money. If you are selling a false idea that people can "get rich quick", then true prosperity will always elude you - no matter how "hard" you "work" at any business you are part of.
Prosperous people become that way by making others prosperous. People who achieve inner peace are those who have found it for others, first. This is the learning environment you are living in, or "making your living" in.
My refund didn't come because I worked hard at it - in fact, I had actually given up on my own refund and was working to set it up so others could learn faster than I did, so didn't fall into that same type of scam. I was simply going to tighten my belt, take my "residual income" and pay it off. And then my refund occurred.
This why I'm asking you to please post this article on your blog, or any version of it you find - and spread the word. We actually want to save these scammers' employees' and associates' lives from themselves.
Scammers have the same end waiting for them as all the people they have deceived - combined. And there may be no help for them. Racketeering charges can wipe out all their wealth and their family's literally over night. But the lower-level ponzi accomplices can wise up from the ripoff they've been assisting in.
Most of the rest of us can simply forgive and move on. Just pay off our credit cards and get on with it. We will find forgiveness to that exact degree waiting for us .
It's not too late for those who are working for scammers.
Those interested in Justice will ultimately prevail - as Justice is fair for all when achieved. It is inevitable that those on the "dirty end" of that stick are just going to get exactly what they have given out to others - maybe more.
All the OPM (other peoples' money) they have piled up will be gone, and more. This is their end-result for the collaborative learning we've all been part of.
All the individuals working for these people will wind up in the same fate. Their lives will be "ruined" to the same degree they have been helping "ruin" others. This is no easy scam, if there is such a thing. For we are each and individually all students of life.
So I say to those working for these scammers: quit now and work on the side of Justice. Seek to help others get their just rewards. Find peace for yourself by helping others find their own peace.
But you have been warned. Don't later say you weren't.
There are those who watch my blogs and search just for certain words which say I've "crossed the line" and now can be harassed to make me take them down. And it's not that I haven't tried to help them learn through all these posts. And I've had to continue, even though I wanted to simply move on to other areas, with my own skills and knowledge improved - but couldn't. My readers and conscience wouldn't let me.
Because: these fraudsters and scammers and their associates don't get it.
But they will - in spades.
Because Justice isn't done until it is. The wheels may grind ever slowly, but they grind ever fine.
Hear this: Quit now, turn state's evidence, help others, make a new future for yourself.
You can find that real happiness which already lies within you by helping others regain their own happiness. Then yours will start showing up. Despite all the illegal scams you've knowingly or unknowingly been contributing to, you can still have what you've always wanted - IF you simply start working to help others get theirs, first.
That is the lesson we all have to learn, over and over and over.
And so - I wish you well. Sincerely.
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