"Patrice Motsepe Reveals Easy Work at Home Trick (Quit your job in 30 days!)." This headline, from a website with an Australian address (citizen.com.au), introduces a story about how the South African mining billionaire "is sending shockwaves across SA after revealing his secret formula that the average Australian is using to make fast money from home". The "story" is an enticement for online binary options trading and Motsepe’s great revelation is probably intended to persuade gullible Australians that this is a genuine get-rich-fast scheme, the real McCoy. The site notes that Motsepe is taking one hell of a risk by revealing his money-making secret. "It’s even dangerous to talk about it, because the powerful elite does not want the average Australian to have this much wealth. Because the wealthier the population is, the less power they themselves have. They hate me for sharing this!" it quotes him confessing. Wow, has Motsepe turned on the "powerful elite" as if he isn’t one himse...
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