How Do You Tell a Scam from an Honest Writer on Medium?

snif-f-f, snif-f-f, got you, you scam rat! Why Do I feel lately that the amount of shit scam articles is increasing on Medium? The people who play the hocus-pocus of I will teach you how to lose forty pounds in forty days if you give me all your money and total focus are spreading everywhere as the Coronavirus.

I sometimes feel cursed by knowledge, especially with making money. Somehow I get the feeling that 90% of the people who write about productivity, entrepreneurship, business, and money are a bunch of scams.

They are either fictional writers and have no idea how things work in real life or a bunch of desperate scammers that fabricate and sell dreams and bullshit to earn a little money here or there to feed their hungry stomachs.

What fucks me the most in the shoe isn’t the article itself but the idiots who agree without double-checking facts or the writer’s credibility. Once I came across an article where the writer said that she made $15K in referrals marketing but only showed financial proof from an excel sheet she made herself.

Some people talk about making $1500 on Medium in a single month with little to no complete case study but only fabricate their earning screenshots by pasting made-up numbers from an excel sheet. The readers aren’t smart enough to zoom in and…