{"id":2388,"date":"2018-02-05T02:20:22","date_gmt":"2018-02-05T02:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=2388"},"modified":"2017-12-22T09:48:57","modified_gmt":"2017-12-22T09:48:57","slug":"when-something-looks-too-good-to-be-true-it-usually-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=2388","title":{"rendered":"When something looks too good to be true, it usually is."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A great quote:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-42110539\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-42110539<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Following the &#8220;Melling Scam&#8221; that has caught poor Christine out\u00a0and how the people of Ambridge got scammed, what&#8217;s the deal with Melling Equestrian Investments?<\/p>\n<p>It was run by a very charming friend-of-a-relative-of-a-friend of Justin Elliott. He was smooth and dapper and was offering very high returns of about 12% for investments into what he described as a world class racecourse for top quality horses in Costa Rica<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/blogs\/thearchers\/entries\/efe1f330-89af-44d6-b8fb-fef46eac5cf6\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/blogs\/thearchers\/entries\/efe1f330-89af-44d6-b8fb-fef46eac5cf6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>12% return in a climate on 0.5% interest rates&#8230;..when something looks TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE, IT USUALLY IS !!!!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A great quote: &nbsp; &nbsp; http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-42110539 Following the &#8220;Melling Scam&#8221; that has caught poor Christine out\u00a0and how the people of Ambridge got scammed, what&#8217;s the deal with Melling Equestrian Investments? It was run by a very charming friend-of-a-relative-of-a-friend of Justin Elliott. He was smooth and dapper and was offering very high returns of about 12% [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2388"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2443,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2388\/revisions\/2443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}