This little gem is for all the people that think scams, suckers, flimflams, and cons are something recently invented. They most certainly are not.

Here is an interesting book from 1916 titled:

From the preface:

There is an almost universal desire in all of us to have ”lots of money.” The desire to get it easily and quickly has afforded the get-rich-quick promoter his chance to “fish for suckers.” Indeed, this branch of the piscatorial art has so large a following of these “anglers” that the government is compelled to employ considerable “machinery” in order to keep these covetous “fishermen” from making “suckers” where none were before. The classified advertising columns of newspapers and magazines have been the medium through which much of the glittering “bait” has been cast to catch the unwary and innocent “fish.”

But the “love of money” is only one among many forms in which the “average human” shows his likeness in gullibility to his finny brother. Another lure which attracts the attention of many is “photos (of women) — the kind men want, but seldom get” In the same class is the “rich, rare and racy book.”

The following pages contain the amusing experiences of one who has been curious to know some
of the “schemes back of the ads”—curious to see the “kind of photos men want, but seldom get”;
to read some of the books, so-called, that are “rich, rare and racy”; to learn the “naked” truth about
what happened to Estelle; to learn what was the “warmest stuff ever put in print” by reading “Fast
Life in Chicago,” with the story of “how Olga got broke in” and “Kittie’s thrilling experiences with a
rounder”; to learn the “moral” from the startling truths revealed in “From the Ballroom to Hell”; why
only men should read “Cousin Maud,” “A Woman’s Blighted Life,” “The Pace That Kills” and heed the
warning in “A Bad Woman’s Influence,” and — others! how any intelligent person, without experience, in spare time, may earn $15 to $25 a week corresponding for newspapers and magazines; how to “go on the stage”; how to learn a trade in a few hours that will net $5 and more a day; how to learn to paint pictures in one lesson with oil paints; how to “make $2000 easy money quick” for two one-cent stamps; how to write “song poems” for publication; how to get a life job with Uncle Sam, with sure work, big pay, easy hours, long vacations and steady advancement; how to make money in grain; how to win at cards and dice; how to be a movie actor and draw a large salary, have pleasant work and travel; how S15 invested in some “great oil field” may make S1500; how $10 a day may be made tacking signs; how to obtain a $35 watch for 55 cents; how to get 25 cents apiece for names and addresses; how to be a detective at $300 a month and travel all over the world; how to be a prospector (with a $50 “dip” needle); how to make a steady income knitting at home; how to get a big mail every day of samples, circulars and advertising matter; how to make $100 a month mailing postcards, without capital or hard work; how to get a wife with $50,000 in the bank; how to raise ginseng, mushrooms and Belgian hares in the back yard, and last, but not least, how a “fortune can be made in the mail order business,” without capital and at home during spare moments in the evening!

In plain view a little pea is rolled under one of three little shells. He who is vain of his eyesight,
but ignorant of the game, is sure he knows under which little shell the little pea is rolled. It looks
like “easy money.” If he who reads this book be not as vain of his reasoning powers as one who is
vain of his eyesight, this contribution to the literature of advertising will not be without interest, and — amusement.

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You can download this fascinating little book and see that times really have not changed and sadly people do still fall for the very same schemes. Be sure you don’t repeat history and fall for this age old tricks.

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The debt binge was fueled by easy money and the belief that prices of assets — those of houses in particular — never went down; only interest rates did. That era is over. It will be replaced by what will be one of the more painful, and consequential, economic chapters in our history: the great deleveraging of America.

But the credit crunch is not anywhere near over. “It took 20 years for us to get into this situation — leveraged to the hilt — and it will take more than a couple of years to unwind it,” says Paul Ashworth, senior U.S. economist at Capital Economics. “And even when we get back to normal, that normal is not going to be the same. We won’t have this sort of freely available credit that we had before for households and businesses. It’s going to be a different reality — a more austere one — when we come out on the other end of this.”

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But the most visible stress is on the cardholders, and it’s showing up in headlines, in call-center employees under crushing debt, even in a new Bollywood movie about middle-class people struggling with credit.

Consumer credit, whether cards or car loans, is relatively new to India. Fifteen years ago, even home loans were hard to come by. As regulations on lending were relaxed and India’s urban middle class swelled with 20-somethings hungry for the latest cellphone model, credit expanded to meet the need.

Banks went too far, analysts say, issuing cards indiscriminately to people in rural areas and lower-income groups without regular salaries. The number of credit cards in India, while still only a fraction of the population, has more than tripled in the past five years, to almost 30 million. In the year ended March 31, Indians charged more than $14 billion on their cards, more than three times the amount charged four years earlier.

The amount of unsecured loans and credit-card receivables more than three months overdue is about 7% to 9% of total loans outstanding this year, and is about to head as high as 15%, according to ratings agency Crisil Ltd. in Mumbai.

More people are turning up desperate for help with their credit-card payments, says V.N. Kulkarni, chief counselor at Mumbai’s Abhay Credit Counseling Center, which advises borrowers. Hundreds have been lining up at the center, dumbfounded by their debt and asking the most basic questions.

“They are unaware of the charges, unaware of the interest rates,” Mr. Kulkarni says. “They just take the money because it is freely available.”

It’s tough all over — and not just in the United States. In India, where revolving credit is still relatively new, consumers are struggling under the weight of crushing consumer debt, according to a story in the Wall Street Journal this morning. But it’s not just Indian consumers who are suffering. The banks that handed out this easy money are being hammered as well. Indeed, card companies that

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