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Bogo walks in a room and announces that we're almost at the end, so double your money now* before it's too late! He claims there are people vouching for him, but they have never heard of him.
ExGingi talked to Bogo for a minute and let's everyone know that he knows what he's doing. Except maybe that was for another Bogo thing he's doing that may or may not MLM related. Or something like that.
Baruch won't stop calling Bogo a liar and ExGingi a fool and a liar. He's gone over to everyone and tells them this at least dozen times.
Freddie is in the back of the room just cooking his cholent. It's parve, exactly how ExGingi likes it. JJ didn't tell Freddie he was in the room as he doesn't like parve cholent or MLMs. This makes him a shvantz.
Dan is waiting for a juicy voicemail or at least an email to put in this thread. Dan loves Lakewood and was very impressed with it. Dan hates Lakewood and bashes at every opportunity {{Citation needed}}

JJ finally did teshuva. It remains to be seen if others mentioned on this thread will follow his lead.

*as long as you're from Lakewood.
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Re: BOGO Tuition Scam
« Reply #181 on: September 04, 2016, 08:05:56 PM »
I don't get it.
Was the cpa part of the scam planning?
When did he "chap" that it's a good idea to "protect the principal"?
When did he get scared off and decide to shut it down?

We will probably never know, but he may have saved people from this.
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Re: BOGO Tuition Scam
« Reply #182 on: September 04, 2016, 08:08:19 PM »
It may have been shut down because ppl reported it not necessarily because they shut it on their own

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Re: BOGO Tuition Scam
« Reply #183 on: September 04, 2016, 08:09:22 PM »
An administrator at a Lakewood school told Matzav.com dryly, “It’s called the Bogo Fund, but it might has well be called the Bogus Fund.”

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:yow1TXjQE2UJ:matzav.com/suspicious-bogo-tuition-fund-raising-concern-among-askanim/+&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

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Re: BOGO Tuition Scam
« Reply #184 on: September 04, 2016, 08:10:00 PM »
I would urge anyone who invested to contact youfunded asap and ask for them to freeze the funds.

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Re: BOGO Tuition Scam
« Reply #185 on: September 04, 2016, 08:34:17 PM »
An administrator at a Lakewood school told Matzav.com dryly, “It’s called the Bogo Fund, but it might has well be called the Bogus Fund.”

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:yow1TXjQE2UJ:matzav.com/suspicious-bogo-tuition-fund-raising-concern-among-askanim/+&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

Or the Pogo fund, checks guaranteed to bounce :D
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Re: BOGO Tuition Scam
« Reply #186 on: September 04, 2016, 08:38:42 PM »
Well that was a fun social experiment.
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« Reply #187 on: September 04, 2016, 08:43:17 PM »
Thanks to the awareness that this ended so quickly (actually kind of impressed with my town) hopefully the naive ones will get their money back
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Re: BOGO Tuition Scam
« Reply #188 on: September 04, 2016, 08:43:56 PM »
Well that was a fun social experiment.
Hopefully it was a learning experiment also.
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Re: BOGO Tuition Scam
« Reply #189 on: September 04, 2016, 08:44:42 PM »


Hopefully it was a learning experience also.
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Re: BOGO Tuition Scam
« Reply #190 on: September 04, 2016, 08:46:09 PM »
Thanks to the awareness that this ended so quickly (actually kind of impressed with my town) hopefully the naive ones will get their money back
140k for a few hours work. I can see these popping up all the time. If you missed this one you will have another chance I am sure.  :)




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Re: BOGO Tuition Scam
« Reply #191 on: September 04, 2016, 08:49:30 PM »
140k for a few hours work. I can see these popping up all the time. If you missed this one you will have another chance I am sure.  :)




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Sadly you arent wrong. there will be more and plenty of people will line up...

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Re: BOGO Tuition Scam
« Reply #192 on: September 04, 2016, 08:53:38 PM »
In regards to "why lakewood?"...I don't have a complete answer, but I'd imagine it's less likely in a smaller community, where things are more centralized, and it's easier to verify. Lakewood is one of the bigger frum communities, so it's easier to think, "oh, maybe it's the OTHER school that's cooperating with this, etc.

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Re: BOGO Tuition Scam
« Reply #193 on: September 04, 2016, 08:55:27 PM »
http://bit.ly/2c4RTiv

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Re: BOGO Tuition Scam
« Reply #194 on: September 04, 2016, 08:56:04 PM »
In regards to "why lakewood?"...I don't have a complete answer, but I'd imagine it's less likely in a smaller community, where things are more centralized, and it's easier to verify. Lakewood is one of the bigger frum communities, so it's easier to think, "oh, maybe it's the OTHER school that's cooperating with this, etc.
Vs Boro Park, Crown Heights, LA, Miami, etc, etc?
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Re: BOGO Tuition Scam
« Reply #195 on: September 04, 2016, 08:57:46 PM »
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Tell them to become DD verified :P
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Re: BOGO Tuition Scam
« Reply #196 on: September 04, 2016, 08:59:04 PM »
Vs Boro Park, Crown Heights, LA, Miami, etc, etc?
Why do you think there are fewer in BP? WHich scam was in Lkwd but not in BP?

CH, LA, MIA are definitely more centralized in the sense that such things would be more verifiable.
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Re: BOGO Tuition Scam
« Reply #197 on: September 04, 2016, 09:03:12 PM »
Why does it seem like there is a disproportionate number of scams originating in Lakewood versus other Jewish communities?

Am I incorrect?
The bias you have against Lakewood and the way you try to bash it in any given opportunity is really reprehensible. I'm not saying that Lakewood doesn't have its faults but you take it to a new level.

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Re: BOGO Tuition Scam
« Reply #198 on: September 04, 2016, 09:06:49 PM »
The bias you have against Lakewood and the way you try to bash it in any given opportunity is really reprehensible. I'm not saying that Lakewood doesn't have its faults but you take it to a new level.

As I wrote earlier it is simply not the case. Which scam originated from Lakewood? The only possible one I can think of is the CC farms which seems to be unverified as a scam as of yet. You say that they seem to originate in Lakewood. check your premises.

Why does it seem like there is a disproportionate number of scams originating in Lakewood versus other Jewish communities?

Am I incorrect?
They are not necessarily originating, but many in Lakewood are falling victim. The only one of these which may have originated in Lakewood is the CC farms. Ambit, Sungames, Viridian, My Harvest America, and this are not lakewood based.
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Re: BOGO Tuition Scam
« Reply #199 on: September 04, 2016, 09:08:34 PM »
Tip says:
SEPTEMBER 4, 2016 AT 8:37 PM
I just called the number.
It seems that they are still taking money over the phone.