Hey good DR I agree with you on the red flag for that whole situation but you shouldn't have compared it to a get rich quick scheme. I agree you should use due diligance but some of those "schemes" are actually valid. ( See:
www.equitybegone.com/board/ )
I will also no longer be even slightly entertaining those newsletters anymore though. Although I didn't do what they said and they probably helped me against my competition ;) it was wrong and the author should have done his homework first.
There "were" obviously a respected source before this incident and also ranked pretty well. Why didn't they know that Google is most likely a subscriber? They have a team of people out there looking for people who know about "loopholes" so they can fix them. You can compare it to anti-piracy teams that software makers have scouring the world wide web for cracks and serial numbers so they can patch them.