I am NOT Maverick Marketing Sydney

Would you believe it?

There I was, minding my own online business, when an awfully familiar looking ad popped up.

You can see it here: http://www.consumeronlinenews.org/finance/vca.php?t202id=91362&t202kw= (or keep reading).

Not only did it carry the masthead of The Australian (which I am 100% confident didn’t authorise the use of its logo on this affiliate ad), it introduced us to Kelly Richards. Hmm. Haven’t we met her before? You know, I feel like I know this work-from-home mum that makes a fortune in her spare time.

Determined to get to the bottom of it, I dug deep into my archives and voila! I HAVE met Kelly before. I feel like we’re old friends; our paths seem to cross all over the place.

Kelly Richards, bless her cotton socks, has made a fortune from EZ Money System, hot on the heels of the fortune she’s already amassed from the Home Income Cash System AND Automated Home Profits.

Boy, she gets around.

Of course, the big question is, IS EZ MONEY SYSTEM A SCAM?

It’s hard to say, says Reviewopedia.

“Well, it’s hard to say whether the EZ Money System is a scam, because at no point in time on their website do they even tell you what the EZ Money System is. Apparently, it’s one of a thousand systems that people are using to make money on the internet these days, but you don’t know if it is affiliate marketing, sales, multi level marketing, ad posting, mystery shopping, auction listing… The list goes on and on.

The EZ Money System is set up so that you must give TheSecretOnlineIncome.com your credit card number and allow them to charge you money before you can even see what their business is. Can you even imagine heading into an interview room and accepting a job from a company with no idea what your responsibilities will be, no idea what type of work you’ll be doing, or what your pay might be?”

Okay, so I’m gonna head out on a limb here.

If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, chances are excellent that it is, in fact, a duck. If it looks like a scam, smells like a scam, chances are excellent that it is, in fact, a scam.

Scamwatch, the Aussie government website, reckons that the only people that make money out of these schemes are the people actually running them. The suckers that hand over their credit cards, well, it’s a case of buyer-beware, ain’t it?

You should have read my blog before you parted with your money.

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Dunno why people keep spamming my blog. You see, I have Akismet, the world’s finest anti-spam… so what happens to their spammy junk is as follows:

STEP 1: YOU GET CAUGHT AUTOMATICALLY.

I want you to know that I DON’T EVEN SEE YOUR COMMENT.

STEP 2: THERE IS A TERRIFIC LITTLE BUTTON THAT’S EVERY BIT AS GOOD AS A TV REMOTE CONTROL.

All I have to do is CLICK IT.

STEP 3: BAM! AND THE SPAM IS GONE.

Just one click, a few seconds, and BAM! SPAM IS GONE.

If Akismet was a bloke, I might even marry it. He’s THAT good.

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Naming your new bundle of joy Lucifer has been effectively banned by New Zealand’s names registrar after three parents had the odd request knocked back.

The country’s Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages has been cracking down on mums and dads getting too creative with their children’s names, ruling out punctuation marks such as . (Full Stop), * (Asterisk) and / (presumably “Slash”).

The list of 102 names rejected in the past two years includes Baron, Bishop, Duke, General, Judge, Justice, King, Knight and Mr, all deemed too similar to titles.

Messiah was also turned down, as was 89, and the single letters, C, D, I and T, although q and J were accepted after being queried.

One little girl was so traumatised by her name, Talula Does the Hula From Hawaii, that she had it legally changed at age nine.

At the time, the authority tried to defend its lax approach by pointing out it had rejected names including Fish and Chips, Yeah Detroit, Sex Fruit, Stallion and Twisty Poi, a staple food in Polynesian cuisine.

More of this hilarious story at YAHOO!.

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