Peter Popoff has been preaching about God and money for decades. His shows that he pays cable and other TV channels to appear on are non-stop crusades about spirituality and overcoming addictions, but most of all, they're about helping people erase mountains of debt.
"I'm telling you that God teaches in His word that He wants to cancel, erase, wipe out, obliterate your debt," Popoff says in a video ad. Popoff claims he has delivered miracles to hundreds of thousands of people supernaturally.
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He sends his followers tons of mail, including small vials of "miracle spring water" and debt cancellation kits, then asks his viewers to send small donations. In return, Popoff promises - as a messenger of God - to heal and unlock the secrets of financial security and wipe out all debt.
"Fundamentally, he's just a con man," said Ole Anthony, president of Trinity Foundation, a Dallas-based watchdog group that investigates fraud in religious ministries, including televangelism. "Supernatural debt cancellation or debt cancellation is just hogwash. There's no spiritual justification or biblical justification for any of the things that they do."
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To really help curtail debt, just stop sending money to con-men.
More than anything, the continuing success of caught and confirmed con men like Popoff make me appreciate the absolutely mind boggling number of people there are in the world. I mean, the people who would fall for this kind of thing can't be that common, right? Most people are reasonable and of average intelligence, right? And yet there must be millions and millions of these gullible suckers.
It makes me feel small.
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