Yeah, I remember writing it once before too - it REALLY annoyed me.
It actually seems quite random how these things go. I have one client who is very clever with the way they run their business, yet they're ALWAYS in some goddam get-rich-quick scheme. Like pyramid schemes and such. And of course none of them work.
This client won about $80,000 in a lottery a while back and asked me what he should do. I'm an accountant, rather than an investment person so I suggested if he really doesn't know, see a
decent financial planner - one who will do some good common-sense investments based on the client's risk profile. I even recommended the
one good financial planner I know.
No. A few days later he rings and he has managed to find some dodgy investment group who have their fees buried in piles of documentation, and the investment group also told both me and the the client's bank manager "don't ring the client if you have a question, ring us directly" which sets off alarm bells straight away.
I don't get it - they're smart people, and yet they're always on the lookout for these get-rish-quick things.
Then we have the clients who we generally refer to as "poor dumb cunts" - those who are really nice people but they have no money and every time you see them they have a story about someone who came to visit them and offered them some amazing deal on a loan or investment or who knows what.
No matter how much you try, some people are beyond help. And the fucking vultures out there can see them from a mile away - I don't know how they do it, but they find these poor gullible people no problems.
