Would you like to make thousands of dollars a month without working? Then Greg Cheney wants to talk to you. You can
see Greg on television every day. He is always selling something. Now he has a new product. He calls it the “greatest diet pill
in the world.” However, the “greatest diet pill” is really the “biggest scam” in the world.
“This is the easiest way in the world to make a fortune,” says Cheney in his TV commercial. “If you get 20 people to try
this product, we will send you a thousand dollars,” the con artist promises. And some people believe him. “It sounded so good,”
says Kelly Eagan. “I signed up the same day.”
The rip-off works like this. Cheney isn’t really selling diet pills. He is selling websites that advertise diet pills. You buy a
website. Then you wait for people to visit the website and buy the diet pills. However, the numbers don’t work. The diet pills
cost $39.95 a bottle. Twenty bottles cost about $800. How can Cheney pay the seller $1,000 to make $800? The answer is that
he can’t.
Cheney sells the websites for $35. But most people pay much more than that. After you sign up, he sells you a lot more
things. Cheney says the extra things bring more customers to the websites. However, Kelly Eagan paid him $5,175 and only
one person visited her site.
Cheney has a list of people who have made a lot of money. He says that he sends out checks every week-$3,500, $5,600,
even $22,782. But even some people on the list have lost money. For example, Susan Kauffman is on the moneymaker list. She
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says she spent $5,000 and sold about 23 bottles of diet pills. Igor Spilsak is on the list, too. He paid $2,000 and sold six bottles
of diet pills. However, in the commercial he says, “This is the easiest thing I’ve ever done and I’m making more than $100 an
hour.” Why did he lie? Cheney paid him $600 to be in the commercial.
Cheney insists that you can make money if you work hard and don’t quit. However, it seems that one person is getting
rich quick and that’s Greg Cheney. 【題組】43. The word rip-off (paragraph 3) means _____.
(A) cheat, trick or scam (B) money (C) rule (D) the websites (E) the diet pills
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