The Old Addage. The Longest Journey Begins….with a Scam??

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010 at 12:26 pm

I’m sure that 99% of the folks reading this will be familiar with what should really come next to finish the quote. So without hammering it too much, I thought I’d just give a brief history of how and and where I started to develop an interest in Internet Marketing.

It all started when I fell for a scam.

Being a complete newbie to the internet I answered an add I found in an online version of a English written local newspaper printed in Pattaya Thailand. It was advertising for investors to start an MLM system supposedly to provide a nutritious supplementary food drink to the under nourished and under privileged children of the world, beginning with those in Northern Thailand.

The supplementary drink was that of a well known MLM herb all life product. which is as safe as I think I can come to naming it without having to worry too much about law suits. He simply replaced the labels on the canisters with his own and claimed it as his own product.

He then went to a couple of villages in the hills of Northern Thailand and the Phillipines where he took photos and videos. The whole point of the exercise was to use the photos and videos of the product being given to children for the sake of making the website look genuine. I unwittingly personally attended one of these sessions in Northern Thailand.

At the time I had no idea of what MLM even meant but I saw it as being able to provide to a good cause with a promised return on my investment of $25,000.000

Without going too deeply into the details, the idea sounded great and the founder, an Irish man named Kevin Alexander McKay (Kevin McKay Scammer) seemed like a genuine sort of person when I went to Thailand to meet him.

Well to cut a long story short, he was anything but a nice sort of guy, who ended up recruiting over 15000 people to his list plus their hard earned cash. He then deserted his pregnant Thai wife and took off to Cambodia where he opened a bar/strip joint/house of ill repute with the proceeds. He then took up with one the “ladies” there and as far as I know he’s still there.

The reason I mentioned his name is because I want as many people on the net as possible to know him. His original site was http://www.netmarkaid.com and I heard on the grapevine that he’s going to pull the same scam again…so beware.

Note: If you click on the link above, you will see that the site is under construction. It’s been that way since he took the original site down over 3 years ago.

His bar in Cambodia is called “Secrets” and the website is http://www.secretcambodia.com.

A search on “who is” will reveal that it belongs to www.netmarkaid.com which belongs to Kevin McKay, the guy I mentioned above.

But enough on that. I only mentioned it because I despise scammers and after having lost my investment, I looked around for a way to recover my losses using the medium in which I lost it and to get his name known as a scammer.

Unusual as it may be, that’s how it all started. Hence, my interest in Internet Marketing for Baby Boomers.