"Let the Buyer Beware!"

You can go here and pay $82.50 to get a replacement birth certificate or you can go to the official government site here and pay $35.00. Unfreakingbelievable eh? The scam site has nice pictures of the Canadian and Ontario flags and frequent government references, and I suspect that they really do get you a birth certificate. Of course I can only imagine what they do with the credit card information that you need to provide. The only real difference I can see is that the scammers make the disclaimer that the 15 day delivery time is approximate and cannot be guaranteed, where as the government site actually has a money back guarantee! On further investigation I have found many more such sites. All they appear to do is transpose your information to the proper forms and take 45 bucks for doing it. It is of absolutely no advanatge to the applicant since you need to provide all of the same info either way. Is this legal? Or perhaps more importantly, is it moral?

Man this blog is spiralling downwards eh? I've degenerated to delivering consumer warning messages. But it's really not my fault! It's Cory's, and if you like you can ask her why?

But I hope for a better one tomorrow. I already have my topic and I'm travelling (Iowa) so talk to you then.

"The money's the same, whether you earn it or scam it."---Bobby Heenan

"It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare."---Mark Twain

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peter