JUST YESTERDAY IN THIS SPACE, YOUR CORRESPONDENT SUGGESTED THE LIKELIHOOD for where so-called "cashflow gifting" schemes may be emerging in certain bastions of socioeconomic uncertainty or vulnerability before too long in the wake of an emerging round of socioeconomic dislocation.
Especially the kind as operate on the Information Stuporbahn, utilising the likes of PayPal in misguided efforts @ privacy and legitimacy notwithstanding 18 USC 1343 (Fraud by Wire, Radio or Television).
But then again, such "gifting clubs" may actually be a perversion (and deliberate) of the "mutual self-help" concept used to promote such in the first place. In evidence, MLM Watchdog has the following testimony of a participant in one such online "gifting" scheme, "5-Star Gifting," suggesting where the whole may be rigged by deliberate design (emphasis from original):
The person that runs this program who calls himself David Rosen which apparently not even his real name controls the software and has been manipulating the software such that gifts automatically go to him that should be gifted to others. He is basically using the software as an automated theft tool. Often people are not aware he is stealing from them because they either do not understand how the software is suppose to work or he just tells them that it wasnt working properly and it is fixed now after thousands of dollars have been gifted to him that should have gone to others. The software is routinely manipulated to route gifts to his position at the top. There are many people in this program that can verify what I have written here. David whatever he calls himself is a thief that should be in jail. Right now he is making thousands of dollars a day off a program that is totally corrupt.
Which is enough to prompt Your Correspondent to challenge such involved in automated gifting scams generally to do the following:
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Identify the specific software programmes used in connexion with these "gifting club" schemes, and where you obtained them. (This includes any open-source such.)
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Identify the original scripting (as was intended to route funds thus "gifted" to those participating), and the manipulated such (as routes funds only to the "elect***entitled as of right), in these programs.
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Identify such points in the program's scripting code and/or algorithm, as the case may be, where the manipulation occured.
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Please Explain why you reconfigured the scripting code/algorithm in question to justify perverting "mutual self-help" in "gifting club" form towards Unfair Enrichment, and why you continue promoting "gifting" as "mutual self-help" in the circumstances.
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If you use services like PayPal, Please Explain whether use of these payment services required manipulating the relevant scripting code/algorithm, and why.
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Produce "clean" (i.e., without the deliberate inclusion of malware, other malicious scripting codes or other programming flaws) copies of the software in question (both "proper" and perverted forms) for analysis by law-enforcement agencies and (even better yet, though unlikely) such studying and promoting mutual self-help initiatives in name and in fact.
That last suggestion of sharing the "cleaned" software in a form as actually serves the cause of mutual self-help might be a longshot ... but nonetheless, I think such could actually be the foundation of a viable, and @ once worthwhile, online mutual self-help model as may interest such specimens of conservative Zealotry and True Belief looking for practical models of welfare-ersatz and denationalised State Social Security based on mutual self-help as its foundation.
Otherwise known as the English Friendly Society model, based on the Holloway Tables rather than flawed exponential maths and the Fibonacci Sequences commonly used by "gifting" elements.
But then again, how best to sell such to the Great Unwashed without attracting suspicions on their part that such may be a scam, while @ the same time expecting them to accept that the State may no longer be able to continue providing their safety net, placing more responsibility on their own part?
And doing so without pandering to latent racist stereotypes or feelings in excusing such thought?
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