We know you’re out there because every time we offer an incentive to get you to sign up using our link, a few more of you come out of the woodwork and take the plunge. With this post, we’re hoping to give you a reason to just go ahead and sign up already.

In case you’ve been sleeping through our last two months worth of posts, Blog Mastermind is the Web’s premiere blog instruction training program. It will teach you to generate a full-time income by blogging part time. I’ve been through it so believe me when I tell you that it’s an outstanding value. I make money blogging, and so can you. It’s not easy, it’s not instant. You need good training. Blog Mastermind is the place to get it.

Stop Teasing Me, Joe! How Do I Win?

It’s easy. Sign up between now and September 30th, and we’ll enter you in a drawing to win one of the awesome prizes below. On October 1st, we’ll put all of the names in a hollowed out watermelon and draw one lucky winner. Why a watermelon? Because I don’t have any coconuts. If you’re the winner and still enrolled on October 15th, pick your prize. That’s all there is to it.

What Can I Win?

This is the best incentive we’ve ever offered because it will help you get the most of your Blog Mastermind membership. When you win, you can choose one prize from the following:

• A blog development package worth over $150. This package includes:
1. A custom Wordpress blog theme created by Woothemes.com
2. A custom logo/header image to fit the theme
3. SEO Ninja, by Naomi Dunford of Ittybiz.com. This book is no longer available anywhere. You’ll want to learn about SEO when you start blogging and there’s no better way to do it than with this book
4. Technical support from us if you run into any problems along the way. We’ll help you work through any issue you have.

OR

• A $150 gift card to Amazon.com. You could almost get yourself that new Ipod Nano with that much. Or you could buy 168.539 mp3s with no DRM! You could sell it to your kid brother for $200 and tell him it has magical powers. The possibilities are endless.

Personally, I would advise you to get the blog development package. You’re already investing in Blog Mastermind, so you might as well get the most out of it by maximizing your blog. Note: Blog Mastermind absolutely does not require you to spend money on a custom Wordpress theme or header image, or SEO books. It’s just that, having been through it myself, I know that those things will help you take your blog to its highest potential.

So if that doesn’t convince you, I don’t know what will. Here’s what to do now to get started:

Click here to sign up for Blog Mastermind.

That’s all! Come October 1st, we’ll put all new signups in a hat and pull out a winner. Go ahead, sign up now. You won’t regret it.

Our Intentions:
This may be just me, but I think we have a really great idea here. We’re helping others save money and time on scams by trying them first. We generally receive good feedback and welcome any comment, criticism or lead. We’d like to head in the direction of user-driven content. Specifically, we’d like to spread the word about our forum and create a thriving community where anyone can chime in with their opinion. This will also give us more of an opportunity to interact with our readers. For helping us do this, we’d like to offer you a bit of a reward.

Rules:
First things first: you’ll need to register an account at our forum by clicking here. Following that, here are a list of things you must do in order to qualify for one of the prizes outlined below.

• I’ve created a post in the ‘Introductions’ section of the forum. You must reply to that thread in order to qualify.
• From now until the contest ends, you need to have a post count of at least 20 posts. These can be replies or new threads, but your post count must be above 20!
• We will be heavily moderating posts that look like spam, so be thoughtful with your choice of words.
• The contest is scheduled to end February 29th, 2008. It’s a long contest, I know. But the outcome should be beneficial for us all and at this length, we can hopefully attract a few more contest sponsors.

Prizes:
Currently, we have 10 prizes to distribute. Five of the prizes will be distributed completely at random. If you made an account, created an introduction, and have 20 or more posts, you’ll automatically be entered to win a prize. The remaining five prizes will be given at our creative discretion. This can be anything from ‘The Most Thoughtful Reply’ or ‘The Most Creative Username.’ I’m not saying that these will be options, but just an example of potential prize winning categories. On to the prizes!

• 5 copies of ‘The Little White eBook on Homeshoring Jobs‘ (Value: $149.75)
• 5 copies of ‘The Complete I’ve Tried That Guide to Telecommuting‘ (Value: Anywhere from $12.50 to $5,000,000)

Closing
Good luck! We actually hope a few of you give a damn enough to help us get our forum on the right track.

See you on the forums.

The competition was stiff among talented writers. Alas! We only have two prizes to give away because Steve withdrew his
offer to kiss the third place winner.

“Steve,” I said, “What will we tell the good people?”
“Tell them I have a raging case of oral herpes.”
“You DO??” I was aghast. Aghast, I say!
“NO, stupid. But then they won’t feel bad about losing out on the kiss. It’s for their own good.”
I was as shocked as a redneck pissing on an electric fence. “You want me to—to lie? To our readers!?”
“Well, I, I, uh…” he knew he didn’t have a leg to stand on.
I showed no mercy. “I’ve never lied to our readers and I’m not gonna start now. And neither are you! And neither am I!” Was that weeping I heard on the other end?
“Okay! I just can’t—” he choked on his words, then collected himself. “I’m afraid Matt from Wild Bluff Media will win and there’s no way I’m kissing him! He knows where I live! Have you ever seen Matt?”

So that’s why there are only two prizes and two winners. But it was a difficult choice! I have thing for redheads, but the other finalist was so in your face with its head-bobbing attitude and scaminess that it was refreshing—like the panhandler who holds up a sign that says, “I won’t lie. I need a drink” is refreshing.

The Winners
So enough from me. The first place prize goes to Anton because I really like redheads!

Hello {FIRSTNAME}

I’m sure you don’t remember me, but I was the shy redhead in the back of your 3rd grade class back in {CITY}. I always looked up to you but was too shy to say so. While we never again shared a class room, I did watch you from afar as you grew up and admired your success. As we entered high school and I finally built up the courage to say hi but my parents shipped me off to a boarding school in Europe.

At the time I hated them for sending me off, but I now realize it was what I needed. At the boarding school I overcame my shyness and after getting a degree from Oxford started one successful business after another.
I now own a chain of hotels spread across a dozen tropical resorts and have my hands in a 18 successful Internet startups.

However, all this success comes with the price of loneliness. I have never found that special person because I’ve always held them up next to you and they just don’t compare. You were my first love and nobody can replace you.

I will be traveling a lot in the next month but will land in St. Thomas for a ground breaking of my newest hotel 5 weeks from today. Please join me for the celebration. I will be out of touch for a couple weeks so please contact my esteemed assistant at SHAD1745@aol.com and he will help you make arrangements and wire you some money for a suit and travel expenses.

Love and Kisses,
The shy redhead.

Congrats, Anton. Send me a link to your blog of choice and I’ll edit the post to include it. A link where you can download your free copy of Blog Profits Blueprint is on its way to you.

The second place prize (Google Pack) goes to Melody for this gem:

Hello Dear Friend:

Please forgive me for interrupting your fine little white-bread, soccer-mom, worst-problem-is-I-got-is-a-broke-nail existence. But there are some of us who are in real trouble and could use a little help from a Dear Friend.

My wife is in need of major surgery right now. You see, her employers got nabbed before her flight arrived and now I need a surgeon to ‘retrieve’ her ‘bonus pay’. When I’m done paying him, I should have a cuppla dollars to pay you back. I’ll even tro’ in a fiver for your trouble. Just meet me at the emergency room and bring your money, money order, check—whatever. We also accept Visa/Mastercard/Amex/Discover/Gas cards–whatever. Bring valid ID & a good car. Gassed up. And leave her runnin’…

Thanks, Anton and Melody: let’s hope your creativity catches on and the real scammers can come up with some better stuff.

I’m sick of the same old, same old, like this one just received yesterday. It doesn’t even inspire Richard Williams, who’s generally pretty easy to inspire:

Good Day,

Thanks so much for responding my message and understanding my situation and your assurance that you will help me out from this my critical situation.

To be honestly speaking with you, I got your contact information through chamber of commerce,where I was searching for a Godly reliable partner that will help me out of this my critical condition,I saw and select your name among equal,I pray and fasted over this before sending you the proposal, I believe it’s God Almighty that directed me to you, I’m for real and you will never ever regret of helping me out, just believe and put your trust in me.

Before we proceed, let me brief introduce myself to you. My full name :Miss Lizzy Johnson and Son.My late My late Husband packaged and sealed Eigtheen million U.S dollars($18,000,000.00) in a trunk box,he deposited the consignment in one of the security firm here in Cote d’Ivoire,he declare the content to them as family treasure not as cash,so we would not allow the security company to notice the real content of the box,untill we retrieve out the consignment and get it transported to your country.

What I really need from you is to help me in dealing with the security company as my late Husband business associate because I do not have any other parents on earth now and can you tell me more about yourself, in such a way below:

Your full name……………………………………………..
Your Telephone and Fax number……………………………
Your residence address…………………………………….
Your proffession ………………………………………..
Your current age ………………..and more of your family background with your personal photo.

Upon receipt of this your personal information ,I will give you the contact of the security company where my late Husband deposited the consignment and make inquires with them on their procedures to retrieve the box.

From my heart ,I promise you 10% of the total money in question and 5% for compensation of any expenses you may make or incur during the retrievement of the consignment from the security company here in Abidjan Cote d’lvoire.

As you might have known this needs trust, sincereness and better understanding so that we would be able to achieve our aim. For your information there is no risk involved in this transaction, the money legally belongs to me and my son. I assured you free and safety in this project and I will open up all my mind to you for your well understand of my mind and my predicament now.

I want to assure and reassure you that my request is legitimate and 100% legal and hitch-free and please, could you assure me that you will keep the details of the project very top secret within yourself to avoid people around you to be after you because of the money and me too on when I come over there to meet you?.

Thanks and Remain Blessed .

Yours Truly,

Miss. Lizzy Johnson

I mean, come on! There are thousands of people running these kinds of scams and they can’t come up with a new formula? It’s always the same:

• A fortune socked away somewhere
• A tragic and untimely death
• An orphan or widow who needs someone big and strong like me to rescue the money

The Contest Part
I think you can do better. Stretch your creative writing muscles and write me an original scam letter—the first email sent to victims that lays the groundwork for extracting money from them. You’ll get extra points for originality, even if you just tweak the existing formula somehow. You’ll get big extra points for making me laugh.

What’s in it for you? Fame and fortune, of course. I’ll post the winning entry here so all of the blogosphere can marvel over your creative criminal genius. And for a limited time, we’re offering these unbelievable prizes:
First Place: A copy of Yaro Starak’s Blog Profits Blueprint, absolutely free!
Second Place: The Google Pack of useful software. Again: Free to creative writers.
Third Place: A kiss from Steve (if you can get him to give up his address so you can go collect).

Instead, we will use the New York Stock Exchange to pick the two winners, based on the assigned numbers below. The final two numbers that make up the cents will be our selected winners. In the event that it ends in .77 or .66, we will continue up the number until we have the next unique number. I no longer have any way of influencing the outcome. Good luck!

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Good luck and don’t spam!

The Entertainment Book is a collection of various coupons and discounts specifically suited to the area around where you live. They boast an average of $15,000 in savings per location. Not too shabby. You could say we are giving away $30,000 in prizes, but I’ll be a bit more humble and tell you we’re only giving away $60 in coupon books. Be sure to read the Entertainment Book Review by Joe for a better feel of what they have to offer.

We reserve the right to delete any comments at our discretion. Excessive spamming will result in a disqualification. If you purchase the Entertainment Book from our website between now and the end of the contest, contact us before the end of the contest and we will refund the cost of the book if you win. If you would like to comment but don’t want to enter the contest, email either Joe or Steve and we’ll remove your name from entering.