Gurubusters.com is a copycat review site run by Gary Jezorski (many posters doubt “Dani Mendez” exists because if you opt in to their form, Gary is who you’ll be getting solicitations from. There is no mention of her anywhere on the Internet at all, it’s likely clipart and a fictitious name.

There are many unhappy posts about this place. One said she got a data entry solicitation, another woman lost $4,000 when the DXGold type company Mininvestment went out of business (Mininvestment.com just goes to a portal, they are long gone).

The site hides all information behind a proxy, yet claims to “expose” gurus and so on. They of course are just a thinly veiled promotional site for Gary Jezorski’s site at currencyexchangeprofits.com which sells an e-currency trading program with sales hype that borders on the hysterical.

Now, there’s nothing wrong with a commercial site, except that he represents himself as a “guru buster” when there’s a clear conflict of interest that he’s not mentioning. If a person runs a commerical site, fine, but don’t represent yourself as a moral authority and without disclosing it, use it to promote only your products. Also, if you submit a review, it says in the terms of service you give them explicit permission to edit the reviews however they see fit, so I wouldn’t put too much stock in the posts there.

I have to make mention of currencyexchangeprofits.com which, if you get on their list, you’ll be sent a sales letter for the $299 course on e-currency trading (e-currency isn’t real money, it’s Internet money which isn’t backed by a bank any other security).

First off, this site has as much predatory sales copy as I’ve ever seen, anywhere. It claims there’s no risk (and do you’re homework, there’s plenty of risk) and you don’t even have to understand it to make guaranteed profits with 30 minutes a day.

Let me tell you, if that was the case he would hire an army of temps to do this instead of selling the information. This sales copy is playing on pure greed, I’ve seen it before and even a novice could spot it. When you hear things like “Go on a trip, send your kids to the best schools, buy a new sports car, or have all the free time you want” you know you’re about to get screwed.

Even the numbers make no sense, first it’s $299 for the course to learn it, then a $4,000 fee to get into trading (as quoted by a woman who did it with minivestment before they vanished and took her money with them). Even then he uses $200 as an example investment, at 1 percent daily return, which is $66.88 in 30 days. If 1 percent was actually attainable, don’t you think every hedge fund manager would be into this and you’d have heard about it on the financial channels? I need to take a deep breath and use bullet points for a moment, please excuse me.

- No investment is guaranteed to make money.
- No trading of anything is risk free.
- This isn’t real money, it’s e-currency and is not backed by any bank.
- If 365 percent annual returns were possible, you would have heard about it.

Hypocrisy really gets me upset, and to use gurubusters.com to claim to keep people from getting screwed, hide all information, then send people headlong into imaginary money investing with predatory sales copy and all the promises is unbelievable.