I recently stumbled upon lots of cashgifting advertisements on Youtube.
It is remarkable that these scam artists are so convinced of their "integrity" in what they do as if you cannot find the word "scam" in their dictionary.
But I supposed, as there are other sins made legit out there, such as pornography, marriages other than between a man and a woman, cults, racism, etc...there's no surprise why those involved in such things as cash gifting aren't feeling guilty at all. The crafty term "gift/gifting" is used to avoid legal issues, unethically.
When we listen to promises, we must listen carefully. We must consider all odds if trust is required, because when we trust a promise, we are also accepting the possibility of the worst case scenario, despite how beautifully they try to manipulate the definition of "promise" with technical terms, emotions, numbers, intentions, etc. These people do love to prey on those who are truly in need. These are not thieves and robbers, no, they are worst than thieves and robbers.
As a rule of thumb:
1. Any ads that appear to describe how their systems work, yet when with close examination, they never really explain how the money flow works, these are scams or some of which are what many call "pyramid scam: the first one with the idea usually scammed the most money". True, there are people making money, those who are advertising. If they really want to call this legal, then I would call it Unethical. I already know their responses to this: "do some research before you...invest...", "it's your choice", "it works for some", "you lose sometimes", "success comes to those who take risks", no response-they have disappeared, etc.
2. If an ad shows all kinds of numbers, simple math additions and multiplications of what you "MAY" receive, earn, be awarded, it actually means to tell you that you are too dumb to calculate yourself and it is counting on your dumbness to fall into the scam.
3. Any such programs that don't tell you there's a fee/investment/membership cost/pay first and trust me/registration fee/deposit/etc., before they TRY to make it sound how wonderful their programs are, are scams. It is very much like some stores that don't display the prices and when you ask them the costs of their pricetag-less products, they try to look annoyed (especially when you decided not to buy) and make it seems that they are doing you a favor by telling you the prices.
4. When the founders obviously have nothing but pennies to lose, but something to gain. Using others' money to make bigger ads, etc.
5. If they INSIST on telling you testimonies than telling you why you should trust them, they are scammers.
I think these are all examples of those Christians who treat the Gospel as sales. Personally I believe the non-biblical American Evangelists are the ones responsible to start all these mayhem.
Running an honest business is not easy, a lot of wisdom is required, and the willingness to suffer losses, even due to honesty, and the diligence of disciplined principle learning, analyzing losses, studying and researching, the will power to strive with ethical integrity and not unethical justification.
