Scams are, by necessity, brief operations. The longer one exists, the more likely it is to be called out as BS. Internet-based scams are no different. Sure, it's practically impossible to police the web and it's all too easy to get information or even just money from people under the umbrella of complete anonymity the Internet provides, but that's still no excuse for carelessness. Net-based scams litter the various outlets of the medium and while they're all pretty indistinguishable from one another, it's unusual to see a single one stick it out for so long. That's why Pizza Boy Club is such an outlier.

I stumbled across PBC several years ago. I had no idea at the time that it would last as long as it has. The approach and even the design haven't really changed much since then. I'm pretty sure that "Chris and Jared", the probably fictional founders of the organization, use sheer curiosity as the central hook of their scam. I say this because among the giant walls of text, some of it in the classic ALL CAPS RED of any standard scam, the meandering videos and nonsensical stock images that make up the site, there is approximately zero information about what exactly "the system" is. They talk about "the industry" without ever saying what it is they do and throw around vague references to marketing and dreams and WHAT YOU DESERVE. Ultimately, it all comes down to that well-worn lie that it's possible to make a six-figure salary by sitting on your ass in front of the same medium that devotes absurd amounts of bandwidth to lolcats and an endless supply of unemployed idiots ranting in front of webcams.

Still, its continued existence has endeared me to Pizza Boy Club. I'm never going to give them money and I'll continue to laugh at any idiot who buys into their nonsense, but I've come to respect the outfit the same way I respect Las Vegas. Both are brainless exercises in financial hemorrhage that play to the laziest, most gullible aspects of humanity and both are extremely gutsy for standing out so gaudily as shameless, borderline-criminal operations.

Amount of Time Likely to be Wasted: The website has a lot of text, though most of it is redundant and the hypnotically empty videos run a few minutes, even if they're sadly not all that absurd. The glowing testimonials from the fictional Internet millionaires are pretty funny as are the GIS photos that litter the site. You're looking at 15 or 20 minutes of amusement.

Likelihood to Result in Arrest in Real Life: Low. If this scam site has been around for so long, I think the authorities are just letting it slide.

MCDR: Like every exasperated father in the history of civilization has said in some form or another- Get a haircut and get a real job.

Internet Depth by Preposition: In, as are all scams. I really wish there was something special about this one to push it toward Of, but I just can't see anything that distinguishes it from other scams aside from longevity.