My Escape from a Scam

Scams.. why do people have them? Who in their right mind would create something with the sole intention of tricking other people into giving them money or their possessions. Why would anyone want to do that? I don't understand humans.. I wish we were more like .. I don't know actually, because I just read today in my online Psychology textbook that other animals deceive their own kind as well. The example used was a chimpanzee who repeatedly pretended that another chimpanzee was fighting him so that his mother would chase this other chimpanzee away from the his food. How crazy is that? But anyway that's nothing like the scams that some people come up with nowadays. That and viruses, I've never understood. Like who would make a virus? What's the point of that? To mess up someone else's computer? I kind of feel sorry for those people, because what kind of life is that? Knowing that you ruined someone else's.

Regardless, my topic is my narrow escape from a scam of my own. This one is called Vector Marketing and was a job. A very good sounding job. I first saw the opportunity and thought 'oh sketchy' and so ignored it.. but I had already submitted my information to them, because I was on my desperate search for a job and had submitted my info several times before. I also thought that it was a job search site where you put in your info and they find jobs for you, but alas it was not. Anyway, it wouldn't give me information about what it was until I put in my info, so I did, and then it said 'call for an interview' but instead of me calling, they called. Twice. In two days. I sent the website to my mom to see if she thought it was a scam too, because it did sound good  and no one else had called to set up an interview. It was $16 an hour and wanted you to sell their knives, which didn't sound fun, but they said that even if you didn't sell them they would still give you money. So I sent the website to my mom and she said it looked bad, but call them back anyway, so I did. I set up an interview and they told me how good my resume was and how I was already better than other candidates. They said that when you come in you are either hired or not hired at the interview. It all sounded very promising. Then my parents came home and my mom decided to tell me that it was a bad idea and I shouldn't do it.. after she told me I should. So that kind of screwed with my mind. So I just didn't go and instead looked them up intensely online and found a wholeee bunch of sites and people explaining what a scam this company was. Basically they get students to get a job there and to get the job you need to buy their 'trial' knives so you can show them when you're working. You then have to give them a whole bunch of contacts, including your high school registry or whatever it's called. And then they call everyone on that list and get you to call everyone and then they get you to give them your friends numbers and THEY WILL CALL YOUR FRIENDS AND TELL THEM WHAT A GOOD TIME YOU'RE HAVING AT THIS JOB! To make matters even better (sarcasm) paychecks are about $3 as opposed to the $16 bucks an hour like promised.

So that was an interesting and short experience.