5 Ways To Find Out If Someone Is Trying To Scam You

There are a lot of people out there who just want to get your hard earned money. Today IronGangsta.com presents 5 ways to make the task of salesman and con artists a little harder.

1.Identification

One of the ways to detect a scam is to identify the person or group of people trying to sell you something. For example, most TV commercials hire professional actors who would do just about anything to get their paycheck in the end of the day. The product they advertise could be of little value to them and yet they will push it in your face and describe in glorious ways. Always ask yourself – who is that person in front me and if he has the secret to everything why does he need to sell it to me so hard?

2.Value detection

When you are about to act on some kind of a deal always ask yourself this – is it valuable? If somebody on the street says: “Buy the newest iPhone for just USD 100, brand new.” there is obviously some kind of a catch since the object in question is much more valuable on the market. The price of a product or service should always be determined by its value according to the specific situation and not in general or 10 years ago. What do you get for your money? Shit and chocolate have the same color and both fit in small packages.

3.Body language

The body language of a person, including voice level and ton, could be a key when trying to identify a potential scam. Usually, if someone is trying to lie to you they will avoid eye contact and will touch his face a lot. Of course, all of this is very basic but quite often basic works.

People who have severe presence of signs like Cancer, Scorpio and to an extend Aquarius in their astrological chart tend to also have very developed inner intuition and can read people more easily than other heroes of the zodiac. Yes, IronGangsta.com believes in astrology.

4.Confusion

In order to drive a salesman crazy one should start asking all kinds of questions in order to make the broker's mind exercise a little. They hate it, even the good ones. Once you've asked all your questions start all over again with the first one to see if the salesman gives you the same answer. It's going to be fun.

5.No miracles

While all of the above is somewhat useful and can help you spot a scam the real secret is hidden in the good old saying: “Too good to be true.” Very few things in this life represent what others want you to believe they are and while there might be roses, champagne and pretty girls on the front door you should remember that every house also has a toilet and a garbage can where you might be going after passing through the entrance. 

Be aware and remember that nothing in the world is free and you can only cheat humans but not nature.

P.S. Stay away from guys like Robert Kiyosaki. They are all frauds.

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“The Cream” Always Rises To The Top & The Rich Get Richer

Despite the global trend to ban smoking in public places, the intensified campaigns meant to reveal the dangers of this harmful habit and the tendency to prohibit certain types of cigarettes and attractive packaging, tobacco manufacturers continue to accumulate larger profits. Louis Navellier, one of the investors on Wall Street, believes that currently the time is extremely advantageous to buy shares of major companies producing tobacco related products.

Cigarettes and alcohol are a very profitable business, especially in times of economic crisis. People who feel financially threatened by the growing economic crisis are more likely to buy a greasy hamburger, drink more than the reasonable amount of alcohol and smoke a lot. They know that this is unhealthy but these simple things reduce stress to which they are subject, says Navellier.

The expert added that even after the crisis is over and people start to put money into healthy lifestyle such as fitness clubs, clean food and reduce or completely quit smoking and drinking, tobacco magnates such as Altria, Philip Morris and British American Tobacco will never reduce their profits.

Ronald Reagan Cigarette Advertisements

That particular quote itself reveals the true thought process of pretty much every rich man out there – You are stupid but you makes us richer ! Keep Doing It ! The following video you are about to see is part of the movie Assault on Wall Street which presents the problems that arise with rich bankers and Wall Street brokers, business advisers...etc. It's all about “screwing the little man” so that  “the cream rises to the top.”

For most smokers, the most important thing is to find their preferred brand of cigarettes – the cooler the picture, the better. Serious cigarette addicts protest against the increasing price of cigarettes but few of them actually quit. Most smokers tend to give up many things, but not smoking. It's a highly addictive activity.

And although in this case we talk about mental rather than physical dependence, the sacrifices made by smokers are quite significant. And this is only a small part on which the tobacco companies rely.

For the last 10 years the pressure on tobacco product manufacturers has heavily increased but they still continue to report extremely large profits. In America and Europe the excise on cigarettes have went up tremendously. The lawsuits started by relatives of smokers who died of lung cancer reported growth as well. The Marlboro Man* himself has passed away in this manner and his family received a big compensation but all of this never turned into an actual anti-advertising of the brand.

The Marlboro advertising campaign is said to be one of the most
brilliant advertising campaigns of all the time

Despite the sanctions in the U.S. and Europe, the global market is still a good investment. Philip Morris sold its huge production in over 180 countries worldwide with profit calculated in billions. 

Only for the last 2012 Altria, the owner of the Marlboro brand, has declared profits on the Asian market worth 6.24 billion - 45% more than in 2011.

The smartest move made by tobacco giants is the production and sale of products meant to actually help customers quit smoking. The idea of course is simple - as all ingenious ideas are. You want to smoke ? Here are some cigarettes. You want to stop ? Please come buy some chewing gum, patches, pills, bracelets, electronic cigarettes...etc. Of course the price of all those products is still very high.

Tobacco corporations have also oriented very quickly towards the production of the so called medical marijuana. The drug was legalized in order to stimulate the nervous and digestive systems of people suffering from anorexia, bulimia and other forms of neurosis. The medical marijuana is also recommended to many cancer patients. And as we can guess, the supplies of the product were taken by bad boys from the tobacco business.

Cigarette companies know where the money is.

So, if you want to invest your money in stocks that will bring you very good profits - bet on the winning horse of the Marlboro Man!

*The Marlboro Man – The Marlboro Man (actually Men) is a figure used in tobacco advertising campaign for Marlboro cigarettes. The Marlboro advertising campaign is said to be one of the most brilliant advertising campaigns of all the time. The most popular Marlboro Man became a cowboy that led to the “Marlboro Cowboy” and “Marlboro Country” campaigns. Ironically all three men who played Marlboro Man died of lung cancer.

Bibliography:

http://www.boldjack.com/2012/01/25/the-most-influential-man-who-never-lived/

http://svobodennarod.com/views/3929-stani-bogat-zalozhi-na-marlboro.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlboro_Man

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2368553/

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You See What They Want You To See

Today I was looking for something to write and I found a pretty cool subject. It turns out that Scooby has been getting death threats and therefor decided to post the following video:

/note: the nipples of Scooby show clear signs of gynecomastia removing surgery done more than once/

For those at work here's a summary:

I thank all you loyal subscribers, I have always thought of you as family. If you have benefitted from my years of fitness advice, all I ask is that you pass it on. Take some young, awkward, kid with low self confidence and take them under your wing. Teach them about fitness, nutrition, and lifting. Teach them that fitness is a lifestyle, not a checkbox, and that the journey is just as important as the destination.

Some unfortunate events which resulted from my 4chan doxing require that I maintain a much lower public profile for the safety of my family. The only way to communicate with me in the future will be the above website, all social media will be turned off ... and unfortunately that includes the AskScooby forum 

If you want to continue to see my videos and participate in the VideoSkype office hours, you can subscribe here at the link at the top of this description. 

This is a very important issue that needs to be given national exposure.

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Many people believe that Scooby is an honest hard working man who has been training for decades and that's why  he looks the way he does. At the same time many kids are convinced that he does it all for free - not the case. Scooby has made a great deal of money from advertisement on YouTube and his other sites (really a shitload of money). Anyway the reason I am writing all this is to present you the actual perspective:

Scooby May Or May Not Be Receiving Death Threats - he says he is but who can really know besides him? I myself have received death threats from a  guy claiming to be Scooby himself. But how can I know if that's really him ? I don't and I don't care. 

The true reason, in my opinion, for Scooby's "retirement" hides in the following:

"The only way to communicate with me in the future will be the above website, all social media will be turned off..."

The "above site" he is talking about is: http://www.fit40andover.com

This is Scooby's new site. Now I have a simple question - if you are going to publicly announce your "retirement" why would you also publicly announce your new website if you "want to keep a low profile" ? 

If you want to hide why would you publicly announce your new home address?

The answer is: ATTENTION ! Scooby is launching a new web-site and wants attention because attention means traffic and traffic means money in the world of Internet. For quite sometime everybody is going to be talking about Scooby's new web-site. That's his goal. He wants to build audience for his new project and is using fake drama in order to achieve the above goal. 

Well done, Scooby ! 

Scooby's new web-site has a "Join" option which is a paid membership - quite similar to the the paid membership at StrongLifts.com. It seems that the fitness gurus want to create some sort of cults and have money coming directly from "clients" every month instead of advertisements. I am not a fan of cults. 

Scooby's new web-site will have paid membership.

Some of you are probably going to ask: But why did he stop his forum?

The answer is obvious - the previous forum was free and it makes no sense to have a free forum running when you are going to be charging for similar/identical information on another web-site. If for example Apple were selling iPhones for free but with a different name who would buy an iPhone ? Besides, Scooby can always restart the forum, although I doubt it. 

Obviously the above claims cannot be proven unless I hire a private investigator to check what's in Scooby's head and whether he really got death threats or not. However I was not born yesterday and you just can't fuck with irongangsta.com like I am some sort of a brainwashed kid waiting for Santa to come.

In the end of the day it's all about the buck. I felt obligated to explain the truth to you. And don't get scared by the following but: 

Please if you are going to post very long comments consider using the forum.

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Creatine - Useless Piece Of Shit

As you probably know I hate supplements. I hate them for one very simple reason - they don't work. They don't work...oh wait did I say they don't work. Creatine does not make an exception - it's pure shit.

What is creatine ?

Creatine -  nitrogenous organic acid that occurs naturally in vertebrates and helps to supply energy to all cells in the body, primarily muscle. This is achieved by increasing the formation of adenosine triphosphate (ATP). 

Creatine is naturally produced in the human body from amino acids primarily in the kidney and liver. Approximately 95% of the human body's total creatine is located in skeletal muscle.Creatine is not an essential nutrient, as it is manufactured in the human body from L-arginine, glycine, and L-methionine (From Wikipedia - best site ever)

Why do we take creatine?

Good fucking question. The general believe behind creatine is that it allows you to train more intensely in the gym because it's is used as part of the human body's energy system responsible for explosive activities such as weightlifting Most supplement companies claim that your strength and strength endurance increase when on creatine. In other words instead of 6 reps you may end up doing 8 reps with the same weight and thus increase your workload. Or in simple terms the creatine fuels the muscle fibers, you perform better and get bigger because you do more work with higher intensity.

This is my take on all this:

Creatine is useless piece of crap than only makes you retain more water and causes diarrhea. You will look bloated less defined and maybe do two more reps when on it. Big phucking deal. The rep increase is mainly due to holding 10lbs of water and placebo.

Let's summarize:

Creatine is not effective for gaining muslce mass. You only hold water. 

#Nobody get's bigger because of 2 extra reps or using 5 pounds more.

Creatine does not make you train harder. 

#It's mostly placebo. 

Creatine blurs your definition by making you hold more water weight which can be confused for fat.

You lose money when buying creatine.

#Imagine throwing USD 20 in the toilet every month. Would you still  do it?

Creatine can be hard on your kidneys.

Creatine can cause dehydration.

Sweet.

That's my take on it. Want to waist your money on creatine to get 2 more reps? Ok. It's your money but it would be more effective to put the picture of a hot chich in front of you in order to boost your testosterone rather than using creatine to get diarrhea, watery face and look like you are using cocaine.

Ok. I know you have been waiting for a picture of the mentioned hot chick - here's one.

Cut the creatine and only good things will happen.

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