I began my mission helping investors steer clear of Wall Street because I learned firsthand how the game was played after having worked in the industry.
Thereafter, I learned how the media helps Wall Street after I was black balled by all media in 2006 and thereafter for trying to warn main street about what would become an unprecedented financial crisis in 2008.
My mission has been to help investors become more knowledgeable and successful by providing cutting-edge investment research as well as top-notch educational content.
I think I've done quite well in that regard.
As a part of this mission, I have also spent a great deal of time and effort exposing the criminal activities of the financial media, as it works with Wall Street to deceive and defraud main street.
Unfortunately, most people have forgotten how critical it is to know the credibility and reliability of the sources they choose to follow.
Instead of checking credentials and track records, they go by the number of likes, fake comments, fake reviews, and hearsay from people they have no idea about.
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For many years I have been uncovering some of the biggest players in the "investment newsletter" copywriting industry, along with their scammy pitches.
Knowing how to spot these deceitful swindlers might be the single most important thing you can do to boost your returns as an investor.
Here, I am going to provide readers with a basic overview of this, the very scammy "investment newsletter copywriting industry which often engages in illegal activities."
Among some of the questions to be answered in this report are:
Leveraging my position as a Wall Street insider, I have uncovered countless instances of fraud and intentional deceit embedded within the financial media for the past fifteen years.
I have also been closely observing the investment copywriting industry over the same period due to what I view as an increasingly everso apparently business partnership that has emerged.
During this period I have published hundreds of articles, audios, and videos dissecting the pitches and exposing the tactics of some of the biggest players in this very sleazy industry.
As it stands today, I might be the world's preeminent authority on both the financial media and it's unofficial business partner, the financial copywriting industry.
But you aren't going to hear about my work exposing financial scammers aside from what you read on this website because there's big money at stake.
As you might have guessed, that money comes from main street and goes to the crooks behind financial media and copywriting scams.
Furthermore, you won't even hear about my unprecedented investment research track record which began in 2006 when I predicted the details of the 2008 financial crisis in two books.
As it would turn out, I predicted this crisis in more detail and more accuracy than anyone in the world. But again, you aren't likely to hear about me or my research accomplishments.
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The reason why you won't hear about my work uncovering the financial media, copywriting industry, or even about my world-leading investment research is because the powers that control all media have long since banned me in order to shield main street from so many things I have dared to warn the public about.
Once again, there's big money at stake. And that money comes from main street and goes to the crooks behind financial media and copywriting scams.
Instead of learning about my work which could help you avoid what might be the next catastrophic collapse or in the mean time help you land the next Netflix (NFLX) at a mere $3/share or Nvidia (NVDA) at less than $3/share as I did for my research clients, and instead of learning about my work exposing scammers promoted by financial media and copywriting boiler rooms as "experts," you're going to be misled by clowns and cons in the media who are featured as "experts."
Along the way in this path of fraud and deceit, you're going to be told many things that aren't true from establishment-approved books and Hollywood movies that seek to rewrite history and mislead you further, such as the lies, inaccuracies, and gross mischaracterizations from Michael Lewis's books and "The Big Short."
The reason why these so-called "experts" are promoted by the media because they keep main street from the truth while steering them into the slaughterhouse.
Why I Spend So Much Time Exposing the Investment Copywriting Industry
My motivation for exposing the very sleazy financial copywriting industry is on par with my passion for exposing the financial media crime syndicate.
Quite simply, I want to help investors steer clear of scams and scam artists because I believe scam artists are among the absolute worst of all criminals.
I believe that most investors have in some way, shape, or form been victimized by investment copywriting disinformation and deception. The same is true regarding the financial media.
Thus, I believe the disinformation and scams from both industries have caused millions of investors to lose large amounts of money. And I want to do whatever I can to educate investors so they can avoid these scam artists.
I began exposing the copywriting industry when I published a piece on Martin Weiss of Weiss Research back in 2009.
See More Vultures: Martin Weiss.
Believe it or not, that article got me banned from Google Adsense.
That's when I began to see how the ad industry and media operate. I soon realized that all ad-based content are bought off, controlled.
I can proudly state that I have never taken a penny for advertising anything.
If you're working with advertisers, you're dealing with the devil.
I know of no other individual who has dedicated as much time and energy towards exposing scam artists in the financial media or the investment newsletter copywriting industry.
If you know of a source that provides better insight into either of these industries I'd like to know.
Why No One Else Goes After These Dirtbags
1. It Doesn't Pay.
Few people are willing to devote a great deal of time and effort towards something for free. And the reality is that exposing this industry does not pay. Thus, you aren't likely to find many people who are willing to do this type of work. It's certainly not seen as rewarding and it simply doesn't pay the bills.
It's even less rewarding becasue I continue to face a widespread ban by all media and even by every website online.
This is an unfortunate reality because it means I am a lone voice, so I am unable to reach many investors and thus help them avoid being taken by copywriting scammers.
I don't make a single penny from these efforts.
And I have never received a single penny of advertising revenue for any of my content.
I learned firsthand many years ago that ad-based content was a complete scam. I've previously told the story how Google banned me from its fraudulent Adsense platform for exposing one of its large customers.
Ever since that time, I have not even attempted to sell ads because it's a very dirty business that puts the content publisher on the side of advertisers and against the audience.
2. Inadequate Insight.
Exposing the investment copywriting industry requires a good deal of knowledge and insight about the capital markets, the financial media, and the investment world. Not many people have adequate qualifications to enable them to carry out this type of work.
I've Sacrificed Huge Money to Expose the Industry
The time I've devoted towards exposing the investment copywriting industry and the financial media has cost me a very large amount of money in terms of lost income I could have generated if I spent this time on revenue-generating content and services.
Everyone who knows me, my story, and my history in the financial industry understands that I spend a great deal of time and energy on tasks that do not generate any income for me. I do this because my mission extends well beyond generating income. I want to help investors steer clear of scams and scam artists.
I perform this work as a public service because I believe it's critical for investors to understand who the scammers and con artists are and how they operate. Only through understanding the "whos" and "hows" can investors steer clear of their many traps.
I believe there are certain things that are so critical that they must be covered for the benefit of society. I am fortunate in that I have adequate financial resources such that I can devote the time required to uncover the many financial con artists in the world today.
Having adequate financial resources enables me to absorb the loss of income that results from devoting a great deal of time towards this work.
Hopefully, my efforts improve the investment income of my audience in having steered clear of copywriting cons as well as the deception and scams from the financial media.
How Does the Sleazy Investment Copywriting Industry Work?
As some of you are already aware, the investment newsletter copywriting industry is responsible for most of the clickbait investment ads you see online mixed in with news stories.
Without exception, these scammy ads are strategically sprinkled throughout what were once reputable financial and investment publications.
These same ads are also littered throughout publications that were never credible.
You can even find the ads on the world's most reputable news wire services like Reuter's, Associated Press, and UPI.
Once clicked, these scammy ads take you to an external website displaying all kinds of deceptive, misleading, and even false statements.
Sometimes a video pitch is displayed on the external webpage. These videos are often quite long, usually lasting around an hour or so. The length of these videos is intentional and consistent with the psychological strategy underlying the manipulative content presented. I might go over what I mean by this in more detail on another day.
These copywriting ads and videos often pitch some kind of apocalyptic scenario in order to scare the audience to act definitively and with a sense of urgency.
They might also pitch a greed-based theme by highlighting a "transformational" narrative promising to make you a fortune.
But don't worry because these copywriting "prophets" offer you a newsletter that will make you rich while everyone else gets clobbered.
If you sign up for an annual subscription to their newsletter, you will receive the "best investments poised to make it through the disaster" (i.e., the scare pitch) or the "best investments set to soar" (i.e., the greed pitch) through the "upcoming transformative technology" or "event."
In years past, these pitches "went for the kill" in one swoop. That is, they laid out the doom or greed-based narrative, followed by asking for $3,000 or $4,000 for their newsletter.
Over the past several years, copywriting kingpins have devised a new strategy offering their "research" for much lower prices. This might seem like a bad business decision on their part if you don't understand the full picture.
First, the reason these offers have come down so much in price is due to the ability of copywriting scammers to reach a larger audience, so they can more easily scale their scammy business. And this has been made possible largely as a result of partnerships they've made with the mainstream media that were previously not available.
They're also able to recoup these one-time production and distribution costs because most of the ads and video pitches are from large copywriting firms that offer numerous publications. Therefore, by getting you to pay a small fee for one publication, they're able to leverage your contact information to lure you into subscribing to one or more additional publications.
These days, the price of copywriting newsletters pitched by most videomercials will be under $100 or $200, setting the bar very low as far as perceived risk to the audience. The scaling made possible via expanded partnerships with mainstream media ensures a large volume of suckers.
These copywriting kingpins will almost always throw in several "bonus reports" promising to show you ways to make huge profits from other transformative themes.
They'll also offer a money-back guarantee in order to make the offer seem like you can't lose.
You know the saying. "If it sounds to good to be true, it probably is."
The problem with these scammy pitches is five-fold.
#1 - Bonus Reports Are Useless.
These reports are just as useless as those offered in the main pitch. The problem is that those who fall for these types of copywriting scams do not realize how useless and potentially dangerous these reports are until it's too late.
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