Been looking lately at ways of increasing internet sales for various products that I promote, and in doing so I came across a website flogging Frank Kern’s “Mass Control”. Wasnt too sure about if or not it was a scam so I did a quick search and came up with this post…

Frank Kern Busted by FTC!
If you’re trying to make a living online, sooner or later you’re going to run across an entertaining character called Frank Kern. He’s a good old boy from Georgia who apparently has made a killing touting various money-making schemes online and now lives the surfer-dude life in la Jolla, California. Lately he’s been fiddling around with video – they’re a bit rough and ready but he’s a natural behind the camera. And just like all the other online marketers he claims to have a fantastic system to help you make millions online – just like he has. I’m on his email list and he bombards me regularly – sometimes two or three times a week, with the latest get-rich-quick scheme he’s flogging. Not only does he promote his own stuff – Mass Control and the new Infomillionaire launched this week – but he seems to be an affiliate of every major online asshole…I mean marketer…out there. Which is a bit of a worry. Some of the stuff he touts is definitely on the nose – like the Australian shonk flogging a Law of Attraction type scheme – “Make as much money as you want! Magically attract your perfect mate!” – based on the teachings (and I use that word lightly) of his fellow-Australian Rhonda Whatsherface’s best-selling book The Secret (and the less said about that bullshit the better).
Anyway, although I find Franky-Boy somewhat entertaining I’ve always been rather sceptical of his claims. If you join his opt-in email list he’ll send you all sorts of free information on becoming an online internet marketing millionaire. Some of its useful. Especially if you’re a rank beginner. But there’s not much meat in the sandwich if you know what I mean. It’s all smoke and mirrors. And really – ask yourself one question Why would this guy share with the world his exact scheme for making millions online? There’s only one answer isn’t there.
But I had to laugh when I saw the latest Frank Kern video. He emailed me -

Remember the guy I told you about in my last video? My best student, who made over $3,800,000.00 in his first two years online?
Turned out the guy was his cousin. No matter. It was somewhat interesting to hear what he had to say. But again, I was sceptical of the claims. But then Kern sends me another video a day later titled Surprise. In this one Frank Kern and his cousin Trey talk to a mate of Trey’s who chucked in his real-estate job to try and make money online using the Frank Kern Infomillionaire model – and God aren’t they cheesy names these guys come up with. The video has either been compressed wrong or edited in the wrong format or shot in a fairground hall of mirrors – the three of them are seated facing the camera looking and sounding like they’ve been pulling on the bong all afternoon. But I found it quite interesting anyway. I don’t know whether I’d buy a used-car off them though. Here’s just a snippet of it –

So I dunno about this guy and his hick cousins. Today I did a Google Search with Frank Kern Conman and Frank Kern scam and Frank Kern asshole and finally Frank Kern dishonest and lookee lookee at what popped up – a November 2003 bust by the Federal Trade Commission on Frank Kern and Instant Internet Empires for operating a chain marketing scheme that necessarily enriches only a few initial participants at the expense of the majority of other participants. The complaint read, in part,

Instant Internet Empires, based in Macon, Georgia, touted the money-making potential of five pre-packaged Internet businesses, promising that buyers could make more than $115,000 a year using the product. For their $47.77 investment, consumers received the right to reproduce the defendants’ Web site and the right to try to resell its contents to other consumers, according to the FTC.
To achieve the promised $115,000 in earnings, consumers each would have to sell the product to 2400 additional consumers, who would each need to sell to 2400 additional consumers to achieve the same earnings, according to the FTC. By the third generation of the scheme, participants would need to make more than 13.8 billion sales, more than twice the earth’s population, for each of them to achieve the advertised earnings.

To view the complete post, and make up your on mind, view the original full length post at…
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