Beware of the Book Exchange Pyramid Scheme!

BEWARE EVERYONE!!

Perfectly Tolerable

Have you seen this post, or one similar?

Sounds great doesn’t it? When you comment “in” you will be sent instructions along the line of:

It sounds great doesn’t it? What a simple way to get 25 books! Worst case, you send a single book and only get 1 or 2 books back, right?

WRONG!

This is a pyramid scheme and it is illegal in the United States.  Not only do you run the risk of not getting books you run the risk of getting into legal trouble.

Here are some articles with more information so you don’t have to take my word for it:

• Snopes
• CBS

I don’t know how “dangerous” it actually is to participate in these.  I doubt the US government is going to crack down on book pyramid schemes, I’m sure they have bigger fish to fry.  But, for me at least, its not worth…

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