Hollywood's Famous Poets Society Poetry Contests ..on-line money-making scheme *UPDATE ..thieves and liars

Sounds good--- Free poetry contest. Big prize money. You may qualify to be published in an exclusive anthology.

What the ad doesn't tell you is that this is a "come-on" for an on-line money-making scheme, and that EVERYONE who enters the contest receives the same computer generated letter from Mark Schramm or Martha French informing the entrant that their poem has made the final round of the big competition for the $50,000 in prize money.

Attend the convention and you will receive the Prometheus 'Muse of Fire' trophy and be honored with your very own 'Poet of the Year' Medallion. Of course they neglect to mention that it'll cost you about $500 to register, plus your meals, transportation, and hotel. Which comes to well over $1000 so that you can be one of 1000 persons attending the convention who have received the same deceptive letter as you. So, if Famous Poets takes in $500,000 they can certainly afford to give out $50,000 in prizes. And this does not even take into consideration the fact that if you ever want to see your poetry which they've published you'll have to purchase the anthology for about $50 each. You can find out more information about this and similar poetry contest schemes at the following website http://wind.wind.org/literary.scams.htm

Read these sorid facts about Famous Poets Society--- Submissions to at least three different free poetry contest web sites will result in entered poems being channeled to Famous Poets Society:

http://www.famouspoets.com

http://www.friendlypoets.com

http://www.freecontest.com

Be advised that Famous Poets Society has done business under at least 12 different names and 13 different addresses:

Hollywood's Famous Poets Society Celestial Arts

F P S Famous Poets Society New Jersey Rainbow Poets New York Poetry Alliance Texas Poetry Alliance Free Poetry Contest International Library of Famous Poets Quarterly Poetry Contest Reno Fine Arts Institute Florida Literary Guild

1626 North Wilcox Avenue Suite 126 Hollywood CA 90028 421 North Rodeo Drive Suite 15-544 Beverly Hills CA 90210 7095 Hollywood Blvd. Suite 730 Hollywood CA 90028 P.O. Box 949 Lawndale CA 90260 103 N. Wood Ave., Suite 70, Linden, NJ 07036 Box 1588, New York, NY 10116-1588 1712 E. Riverside Dr., Suite 147, Austin, Texas 78741 PMB250, 2219 W Olive Ave., Burbank, CA 91506 11314 Ventura Blvd. Studio City CA 91604 1257 Siskiyou Blvd., PMB 4, Ashland, Ore. 97520 1762 Ashland Street, Ashland OR 97520 316 California Ave., Suite 626, Reno, Navada, 89509-1669 3232 SW 35th Boulevard, Suite 156, Box 147035, Gainesville, Fla., 32614-7035

(310) 289 - 4534

(800) 763 - 8762

(800) 763 - 8792

(323) 962 - 8873

(541) 488 - 0510

John Campbell, the genius behind Famous Poets Society, along with several members of his family, ran an almost identical poetry contest scheme back in the 1980s called World of Poetry.

John Campbell has allegedly been known to use the names:

John Cambell

John Hamilton

Richard Cambell

Richard Huntington

Dr. Richard Huntington

Chuck ________

John Webber

Martha French who answers their mail does not exist.

To see the Better Business Bureau report on the Famous Poets Society go to http://www.la.bbb.org/howtoreport.html , get the search form and enter "Famous Poets" in the form.

Charlie Nicholasville, Kentucky