People fall prey to scams all the time. We all know someone dudded in some form of scam, whether it is Nigerian ‘419’ style scams, catfishing of sad and lonely older folks or Ponzi schemes.
It is astonishing just how many people fall for these scams. What I am about to show you is how billions around the world have fallen for the biggest and most audacious scam of them all, and how evil governments have exploited all the nasty techniques that Nigerian, catfisher and Ponzi scammers use.
First, we need to understand the anatomy of the various scams. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) states, “An advance fee scheme occurs when the victim pays money to someone in anticipation of receiving something of greater value – such as a loan, contract, investment, or gift – and then receives little or nothing in return.” There are many variations of this type of scam, including the Nigerian prince scam, also known as a 419 scam. The number 419 refers to the section of the Nigerian Criminal Code dealing with fraud and the charges and penalties for such offenders.
These scams play on people’s greed. Many times, the scam is set up in a way where victims are promised that they’ll make a hefty financial profit without much effort. In most successful scams, the fraudsters also prey on your desire to be a hero.
You get the opportunity to feel good about yourself by helping another person in need. After all, what could be nobler than helping a sick person in need or helping some poor soul recover money that rightfully belongs to them in the first place?
Fear of missing out also plays a big part: “If I don’t participate in this, then I may miss out on the windfall, whatever that windfall is.”
Catfishing is particularly nasty in that it generally preys on lonely and mostly elderly people. Catfishing is a deceptive activity where a person creates a fictional persona or fake identity on a social networking service, usually targeting a specific victim. The practice may be used for financial gain, to compromise a victim in some way, as a way to intentionally upset a victim, or for wish fulfilment. The modern term originated from the 2010 American documentary Catfish. In the documentary, we follow Nev Schulman, the executive producer, as a victim of catfishing. He had cultivated a relationship with what he thought was a 19-year-old girl from the Midwestern United States. The woman with whom he had been communicating was actually a 40-year-old housewife.
We’ve experienced this with a prime minister who has built up the perception that she is the epitome of kindness and never tells a lie. Both are demonstrably false, especially in the context of the pandemic. From the lottery of human misery that is the MiQ system to the cruel hardship of lockdowns, to ‘short sharp’ lockdowns which stretched 107 days, we have seen a cackling, laughing prime minister pretending to be caring and heartfelt when she is anything but. It is a classic catfish, in that what we were promised was not what we were delivered.
We were promised that no one would be penalised for declining the vaccines nor would people be forced into having vaccinations, only to wake up one morning to find we now had two classes of citizens, where the unvaccinated were ostracised, demonised and shunned and blocked from society.
Double jab for Christmas so you can have festivals and restaurants and bars. Jabbed so you can keep your job, but now you are faced with even more jabs to keep that which you thought you had already kept.
Buxom and beautiful Helga from Stockholm turned out to be Boris the donkey from Kazakhstan. And didn’t the catfisher enjoy laughing at us for falling for it?
Then we have Ponzi schemes. The scheme leads victims to believe that profits are coming from legitimate business activity (e.g., product sales or successful investments), and they remain unaware that other investors are the source of funds. A Ponzi scheme can maintain the illusion of a sustainable business as long as new investors contribute new funds, and as long as most of the investors do not demand full repayment and still believe in the non-existent assets they are purported to own.
The vaccines are the ultimate Ponzi scheme, and we’ve been defrauded. The vaccines were sold to the public as being the way to end transmission, to protect you from infection and also from dying. They’ve done none of that. Can’t remember all the lies and promises? Let me help you remember:
The vaccine scam is a classic scam, one which has robbed the coffers of the world’s nations and filled Big Pharma’s coffers.
It is a classic Ponzi when you tick off the hallmarks one by one:
- High returns with little or no risk. Every investment carries some degree of risk, and investments yielding higher returns typically involve more risk. Any “guaranteed” investment opportunity should be considered suspicious. We were promised immunity, but the charts around the world show the exact opposite, to the point where Omicron is now described as an endemic disease. The risks are massive, you can’t unvaccinate yourself. We are yet to see the health risk manifest to the point that they can no longer be ignored, but they are building. Just yesterday the CDC in the USA recommended extending the gap between doses to avoid heart issues. Ardern’s regime just shortened the gap!
- Overly consistent returns. Investment values tend to go up and down over time, especially those offering potentially high returns. An investment that continues to generate regular positive returns regardless of overall market conditions is considered suspicious. We were promised the moon for vaccines, but case numbers continue to climb worldwide despite the vaccines. Our returns are less than optimal, and yet the promoters of the scam still insist we can boost our way out of this.
- Secretive or complex strategies. Investments that cannot be understood or on which complete information cannot be found or obtained are considered suspicious. Pfizer is fighting tooth and nail to bury ingredients and testing results. We are told to trust the “science”, but one of the inventors of the “science”, Dr Robert Malone, tells us that we should not be vaccinating everyone, especially children.
- Issues with paperwork. Account statement errors may be a sign that funds are not being invested as promised. Again Pfizer and the FDA is trying to hide the paperwork from scrutiny for variously 55-75 years.
- Difficulty receiving payments. Investors should be suspicious of cases where they don’t receive a payment or have difficulty cashing out. Ponzi scheme promoters sometimes try to prevent participants from cashing out by offering even higher returns for staying put. For the 78% of people in New Zealand currently infected with Omicron who were “fully vaccinated“, how’s that pay out working out for you? But don’t worry, the scam promoters are asking you to stay and take another jab…for your health.
Still not convinced you are the victim of an evil regime that has used all the techniques of propagandists, Ponzi scheme fraudsters, catfishers and Nigerian fraudsters to con you into injecting something into your body that you can never remove or fix?
Well, you are like the sad and bewildered granny still believing that if she just gives another $1,000 for airfares to Juan from Ecuador so he can finally fly out to give his undying love in person, it will be the last time she has to pay to finally be happy.
We are the relatives and the bank manager having to act to save you from yourself before the last vestiges of your retirement savings end up funding the lifestyles of the scammer.
And that is the truly evil part in all of this. Like the sad granny, the victims of this scam are still believing that Ardern has saved them and that we should really continue with the lockdowns, restrictions and the jabs, just one more time, to really get to grips with this virus.
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