Has Ted Haggard Found A New Way To Fleece People?

Joe My God  Jul 03 08

An eagle-eyed JMG reader has found Ted Haggard's new business site, a mortgage reduction scheme company called United First Financial with the URL: KeepYourOwnMoney.com.Entering the company's site through their main portal (not Haggard's) one finds a link to another company site called ThinkBeyondMortgages.com. JMG reader David ponders: Glancing through the "agent manual" it appears to me to be something like a Multi-Level-Marketing scheme, and the "customers" at the bottom are lured in by promises of tens of thousands of dollars in EVENTUAL savings on mortgage interest, in exchange for a $3500 upfront fee (as nearly as I can tell) which gets gobbled up by however many "agents" are in the food chain above them. Full story...

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