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19-07-2003, 09:12 PM
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Sustainability in 3rd world agriculture
"sw" wrote in message ... David P wrote: In article , says... Oz wrote: Howâ?Ts this for a business proposal for you: You give the company a $200 deposit. You get a jar of beads which you string onto fishing wire â?" and in 20 days they pick up the 100, 20 cm strings youâ?Tve made and they give you your deposit back plus $94. Bloody hell. I hope there *Is* a hell, with a special corner for people who do that to the poor and desperate. It happens in this country as well Sarah. There are also those other scams that affect those with rather more money - WEW [women empowering women] is one that comes to mind along with the one a few years ago; Alchemy?? Wilst there are gullible people [through need or greed] people will make money out of them. I know. But here social services ensures -- or should -- that no one starves. And Trading Standards, etc, will try to track the culprits down. The third world poor may be easy meat, worth targeting because they are easy, but the people who steal from those who have almost nothing are despicable beyond belief. I know for a fact that Cumbria Trading Standards collared one of these bogus consultants who would get you EU grants if you paid them Ł300. They invited them to the Trading Standards office, and by throwing a sack over the sign became "Cumbria Trading" rather than "Cumbria Trading Standards." The idiot went in and gave them his spiel, which was recorded as evidence. I felt CTS had excelled themselves Jim Webster |
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