[Whiteknight]

They literally edited themselves onto the cover of Forbes :')

How did they do that? Is it legal?

 

[saadqazi3452837]

It's your choice, but if Christian and Rasmus's Audiobook Income Academy 2.0 coaching program appeals to you, you can enroll for a discounted fee of $1,497 if you register for the webinar alone, or pay the remaining $797 over three months.

 

[Doglover]

It's your choice, but if Christian and Rasmus's Audiobook Income Academy 2.0 coaching program appeals to you, you can enroll for a discounted fee of $1,497 if you register for the webinar alone, or pay the remaining $797 over three months.

If there is one thing these so-called courses tend to leave out when they are tempting people with vast incomes from kindle and audiobooks, it is that you have to be able to write. If you can't do that, find something more suited to your own talents.

There are no get rich quick schemes unless you, too, are prepared to sell useless courses. As to the original poster's question of why do You Tube allow a scam to promote, unless someone complains, they don't even know. Even if someone does complain, it is unlikely the ads will be banned.

 

[Milasugar]

To me they are big scammer. Also today I found on my calander of gmail. A highlighted section with there info twin@hello.publishinglife. I am shocked, because I block them for to many emails. Continuously ask to join for 1999 dollar. Offering 4 easy payment. Now Google do have glitches on their apps. When you sign in it's just like opening Pandora box. Giving access to anybody to hacker you. If you dont close each application down after you finish. Your open to all the lichens out there to steal what money or info you have. They need to be put on rip off website. 😪 mila

 

[izzyraemercier]

I kept getting ads for them on places like Youtube and it seemed too good to be true. Probably because it is. Now I don't have any experience with these guys in particular but I do have past experience with scammers. One of the major red flags was the timer counting down as soon as you entered their site. Scams want to pressure you into signing up as soon as possible before you have time to think. Most legitimate businesses and sites won't have this feel of "Quick! Clock is ticking!" as soon as you enter the site even if there's a limited time sale on products. The worst part about publishing life is the timer has no context at all telling you what it's there for. And when you reset the site, it resets and counts down again. It's purely there just to pressure first-comers and make them think there's little time to act. Again, scammers don't want you to have time to think. Legitimate businesses will recommend you look into things more to make sure it's the right fit for you. Another site that does the timer method is eharmony funny enough. "Special deal but time is running out." but as soon as time does run out, they give you an even better deal with another timer strapped on it. Feel free to check them out to form your own opinion. Just don't give money to sites that are pressuring you to "sign up before it's too late."

 

[jkswills]

So I am on Youtube and researching about kindle publishing, and I'm seeing a LOT of ads from a pair of young guys called the Mikkelsen Twins. They claim to be making a six figure income from publishing with something called "ghost audio". Apparently the premise is, based on their presentation, that they outsource material and then publish it for profits. This sounds interesting but as anything with online marketing these days I'm a bit of a skeptic. I've done some research elsewhere and from what I can determine they aren't in cahoots with any "credible" authors or anyone in the publishing space.

Is it a scam and if so why in the world is Youtube allowing these guys to promote? What's the general consensus on these blokes?

Edited to restore the thread's original title. KBoards' prefers specific, evidence-based descriptions to name-calling. Drop me a PM if you have any questions. - Becca

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As at 5 December 2022 I have been well and truly scammed by this pair posing as an LLC, by the time I realised and tried to STOP Payment they had charged me through PayPal more than £1500.00 which ha almost broke me through taking ALL MY MONEY and leaving me in debt to my eyebrows.
PLEASE, Please dont get caught by these two scammers, I’ve been trying to get my money returned for months without any luck.
Jim Wills

 

[stevereid2908]

As at 5 December 2022 I have been well and truly scammed by this pair posing as an LLC, by the time I realised and tried to STOP Payment they had charged me through PayPal more than £1500.00 which ha almost broke me through taking ALL MY MONEY and leaving me in debt to my eyebrows. PLEASE, Please dont get caught by these two scammers, I’ve been trying to get my money returned for months without any luck. Jim Wills

Thanks, you just saved me making the same mistake, sorry to hear about your loss

 

[lewis.goudy]

As at 5 December 2022 I have been well and truly scammed by this pair posing as an LLC, by the time I realised and tried to STOP Payment they had charged me through PayPal more than £1500.00 which ha almost broke me through taking ALL MY MONEY and leaving me in debt to my eyebrows.
PLEASE, Please dont get caught by these two scammers, I’ve been trying to get my money returned for months without any luck.
Jim Wills

There is a bit of Ponzi in this porridge is clear enough from the get in now while you have the chance style of the presentations, which helps them by preventing critical thinking from holding you back in a trade where you pay real money in the present for a hypothetical paradise on wheels in the future ("It's not an expense, folks, it's an INVESTMENT!") Anyone who needs to be schooled on the difference and has money won't have it very long. As Hemingway observed, "Remember, anyone who pulls his erudition or education on you hasn't any." [The New Yorker, 5/13/1950] The premise that you can build perpetual money machines is just as believable as the premise that you can build perpetual motion machines. The Second Law of Thermodynamics cannot be proved: it is considered a fact of life because lots of people have claimed to build perpetual motion machines but none have succeeded. Similarly, lots of people claim that they know how to build perpetual money machines and will share their knowhow with you for a measly two grand, what a bargain, but the reason that there are no perpetual money machines is the same as the reason there are no perpetual motion machines, aka TANSTAAFL: there ain't no such thing as a free lunch. Suppose the whole population of the US was gifted the pig in a poke these guys are selling. Would we all get rich in one week and commence a three-year tour of the world since we told Mr. Bossman to take this job and shove it? How would we find accommodations when the hotel clerks have all quit their jobs flush with free money? The only way to eat a free lunch is to eat a lunch that someone else paid for, and if you are down with that you deserve to be on all the sucker lists and pay full price and then some for the education you are about to receive.