Mar 12th, 2008
I must be doing something right if I am making these people mad…
I received an email yesterday from a financial advisor…and he was not happy:
Dear Eric,
Yes, thats right I know your real name. I came across your article “Credit counseling is fraud” and I am not sure what makes you think you have a right to give people financial advice on how to handle their money. I went to HARVARD and studied ECONOMICS to earn my right to work as a financial adviser. I don’t sit and write a blog about how to get rid of engineers so how about you <edited> off. Credit counseling is a valid job and we provide a SERVICE to people, you are just a sarcastic big mouth on the internet stirring up trouble. You are probably just a reject college drop out who is hoping to make money online because your janitor job pays minimum wage. For someone who claims “sports” and “bodybuilding” as hobbies you go to great lengths to show pictures of yourself either head up or with heavy coat on you lying fat ass.<Edit> you.
This email is funny for a variety of reasons, not the least of which because my name is not Eric. Eric is the name of my friend I share hosting with. Aside from that, I am somewhat of a sarcastic big mouth I suppose so hes got me there, ha!
What this really tells me is that people like this are threatened by you being empowered. So read on. Oh and heres a gratuitous collections of pictures of me doing things from my about page 
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Wow. The e-mail is funny on so many levels. First of all, ANYONE can call themselves a financial advisor. There is no licensure or certification for that title. So I’m not sure what HARVARD or ECONOMICS (LOL) has to do with anything. Even so, just because you (let’s assume here) know economics, doesn’t mean you know personal finance. Personally, I wouldn’t choose an economist for my financial planning needs. Just because you can explain the Fed and inflation and blah blah blah doesn’t mean you know asset allocation or risk mitigation.
So yeah, you must be doing something right so keep it up
Do they teach them to drop “F” bombs like that at Harvard?????
Makes me glad Dreamhost offers anonymous WhoIs service. Mostly because I wouldn’t want crazy people knocking down my door. In turn, wouldn’t it be fair for you to post his name and contact info as well as the name of the group he works for?
You might find this commenter amusing… http://tinyurl.com/36uptq somehow people think writing such e-mails and comments will make them look better and the blogger look worse.
My husband also got one yesterday from someone who ran across one of his old posts, commented without reading (you could tell) and spelled things very very very badly. At least your guy could spell…and shout and cuss.
Postscript — the most hilarious part of the comment I referenced was watching the guy (?) degrade into all-caps and ad-hominem attacks.
Ha, hate mail for a financial blog, thats pretty sad. PS what are you doing in the top middle picture? Football?
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Nice work…. how embarrassing for Harvard grads and economics majors everywhere. To be fair to those people, this guy could be a “lying fat ass” and not really be either a Harvard grad or an economics-degree holder… in fact, I’d put money on it.
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I’ll bet this guy is mad because he just got his first student loan bill. Wanna guess the thousands he’s in debt while not making as much as he’d thought?
Fender Strat, Jesse? Nice choice, mine’s blue, still prefer Gibson!