A few years back may friend told me about this poetry contest. I’m not much of a writer, but I tried out any way. A couple months later they told me that I was one of the finalist in the competition. They also told me that I had to buy my own hotel, airline ticket and rental car to go to the contest. Well I didn’t have the money for that I had took my poem to a college professor and he said that it was in desperate need of editing, many grammar and spelling errors, and that’s when I read about it on forums I learned that it was all a scam. Later, they then sent me a letter if I would like a plaque and a book for sixty dollars for winning a contest I didn’t even go. My friend around the same time got the same letters. Some of these companies offer to put you’re poem in a book and on a web page for writing so “well”. People are lead on when the poetry site tells them about how good there poem is. So remember no matter what any website tells you, you need to research. I am currently writing a e-book on how to identify a scam. It evolves a process that is sure to identity even the trickiest scams and don’t worry its going to be free. Don’t be ashamed if you get scammed, believe it or not even doctors and lawyers get scammed out of their money. If you hate bull as much as me visit www.Ihatebull.com.
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