I would consider a business a scam when you are knowingly misrepresenting your product. In the baby prediction business, part of the plan involves putting the user through a survey of irrelevant questions, to give the impression that you are somehow using this information to provide an informed prediction about the gender of the baby.
If, on the other hand, you simply said "Pay me $50 and I'll guess if your baby is a boy or a girl" It wouldn't be a scam, nor would anyone pay for it.
To put it more simply, if the customer handing over money depends on them believing something that isn't true, it's a scam.
A prosecutor though would have to prove that the questions were irrelevant, which would be hard to do, unless you blogged about how the questions would be completely irrelevant on your high-traffic website.
All you need to do is link the questions to something. As in:
How many brothers/sisters do you have? More brothers = +1 girl, and vice versa. There is no requirement to have any sort of science behind the reasoning of whether or not your +1 assertion is correct.
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I would consider a business a scam when you are knowingly misrepresenting your product. In the baby prediction business, part of the plan involves putting the user through a survey of irrelevant questions, to give the impression that you are somehow using this information to provide an informed prediction about the gender of the baby.
If, on the other hand, you simply said "Pay me $50 and I'll guess if your baby is a boy or a girl" It wouldn't be a scam, nor would anyone pay for it.
To put it more simply, if the customer handing over money depends on them believing something that isn't true, it's a scam.
A prosecutor though would have to prove that the questions were irrelevant, which would be hard to do, unless you blogged about how the questions would be completely irrelevant on your high-traffic website.
All you need to do is link the questions to something. As in:
How many brothers/sisters do you have? More brothers = +1 girl, and vice versa. There is no requirement to have any sort of science behind the reasoning of whether or not your +1 assertion is correct.