Willard Water is described as Catalyst Altered Wwater (CAW) composed of:
Water 99.3%
Sodium Metasilicate 87.5%
Sulfated Castor Oil 11.5%
CAW Micelle 0.39
Refined Lignite 0.23%
Calcium Chloride 0.4%
Magnesium Sulfate 0.4%
and is supposedly is “‘wetter’, more efficient, more reactive” and, of course, “TOTALLY SAFE!!!”
I’m not a chemist, but even I can easily spot the b.s. in this. One quick glance at the first two components’ percentage of composition should be a quick clue. That reminds me, sadly, of a landman I once worked with who, when asked by a prospective partner in a drilling deal what he thought were the chances of success, responded that the secondary objective was an offset to known production that he gave an 87.5% chance of success and the primary objective was a wildcat that he gave a 50% chance of success. He thereby arrived at a 137.5% chance of success for the project.
We howled over that! Why, then, were we only selling 100% of the deal?
But to get to the question - how do these scammers really look at what they’re doing? Some of them must know that almost all of those exposed to their materials quickly spot it for the trash that it is, so they’re then acknowledgedly seeking business relationships with idiots. That’s not the group I seek out for partnerships.
I guess, then, they just want you to send’em some bucks, and then they’re gone?
That might apply to some of the Nigerian Advance Fee type scammers (although not all, if you read some of the scam the Nigerian scammers pages). But the Miracle Energy Producing Device scammers seem to be a little more married to their identities and schemes.
So, I propose, then, that we sort out some classes of scammers:
1.) Hit’n’run scammers can be fairly intelligent and apparently sociable, but just want that first taste of your cash and then they’re gone;
2.) Advanced Nigerian Advance Fee scammers, who will take the pretense out for several months, and score some big bucks from time to time;
3.) Retard Nigerian Advance Fee scammers, who like the idea, but have only a tenuous hold on it, and will pose for pictures holding signs that say “I’m a Dickhead;”
4.) Street level scammers, who all have the same tale of their momma dyin’ in a hospital in Tuscaloosa, and they only need $6 more to get a bus ticket to see her off this mortal coil;
5.) The Internet borne purveyors of various types of illegal everywhere porn or scheduled drugs, whom I imagine must go into it thinking that they’ll surely be discovered eventually, but they’ll only stick around long enough to scam a few bucks and move on - apparently some of them become too enamored of their cash flow and stick around long enough to get nailed;
6.) Sellers of Miracles - this breaks out into two classes - those who actually believe in their worthless technology, and those who know they’re movin’ b.s.; and
7.) The Ken Lay-like corporate stock value scammers, whom I hate with a sincere passion, who manage to move millions, if not billions, of dollars in their direction, but whom must also, IMHO, know that the end game will surely end their facade. I just don’t understand that mentality.
So, that’s my first pass at it. I’m sure I forgot somebody.
But, the two questions are:
A.) Can we classify the scammers?
B.) WTF are they thinking?
