Last updated on May 6, 2025 · In-depth guide, 5–7 min read
In this Too Damn Easy review you’ll learn about a cash gifting pyramid scheme so bizarre, you have to see it to believe it. Can you seriously get complete strangers to send you tens of thousands of dollars in the mail?
Too Damn Easy Review
Too Damn Easy is a cash gifting scam founded by an anonymous character only known as “Q”. You cannot earn thousands of dollars as promised by sending money to strangers. This scam is nothing more than a modern day chain letter, and many naive people still fall for it.
What is Cash Gifting?
Payment but no service: Cash gifting dates back way before the internet. (Yes, kids, there was this whole crazy, black and white world that actually existed before the internet.) It’s a pyramid scheme where money is exchanged, but there is no actual service rendered. This is the key factor that makes pyramid schemes like Too Damn Easy illegal.
Check out what the FTC has to say about pyramid schemes here.
Modern spin on an old scheme: The “Too Damn Easy” scheme is an updated take on chain letters. What are chain letters you ask? Well, back when people sent each other letters in the mail, you would receive a letter in the mail from a stranger with 5 names and addresses on it and instructions:
Step 1: send $1 to each of the names and addresses on the letter.
Step 2: remove the top name, move the other 4 names up one spot, and put your name and address in the 5th spot.
Step 3: send this new letter with its instructions out to 10 (or more) random people.
False promise: The promise here is that when you sent your chain letter out to 10 people, those 10 will send to 10 more, who will send to 10 more, and so on. By the time your name goes up the ranks you’ll eventually receive potentially thousands of random letters from people each with $1 inside.
Preying on the gullible: Most people with common sense simply threw away those chain letters. And that’s exactly what you should do with any cash gifting scheme. Unfortunately, the Too Damn Easy scam preys on the gullible.
Let’s detail how this scheme works and point out all the red flags to steer clear from.
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How Does Too Damn Easy Work? – The Many Red Flags
The main tool is a two sided postcard pictured above. You’re told that you don’t have to say or do anything except mail them out. It will do all the talking for you. It amazes me that anyone in their right mind would take this seriously.
Heavy price tag: $2k – $18k. Ladies and gentlemen, long gone are the day where you may be schemed out of a dollar. These are THOUSANDS of dollars we’re talking about now, meaning a whole lot more pain when you realize you’ve been duped.
Shady tactics and unrealistic promises of revenue: When you arrive at the Too Damn Easy website, you’re greeted with an out of focus video showing a close up view of 600 stacked $100 bills. You’ll see stacks of money on the floor, stacks of money on a table, and stacks of money in a cash counting machine.
Q states this is his DAILY earnings from this program. Right away this should trigger your instincts that this is a scam.
The man behind Too Damn Easy is simply known as “Q”. When the founder of a “great business” isn’t willing to show his face or share his name, something is up. There is literally nothing more you know about “Q”. You hear his voice, but never see his face. Most of Q’s videos follow this same bizarre theme.
Red flags galore: As you can see from the instructions Q provides, you will use his tools provided to reach out to completely random people to invite them in on the scheme.
To be asked to send a minimum of $2000 off to a stranger after reading a postcard like that should raise every single red flag you’ve ever imagined in your entire life!
Let’s recap:
- You buy in for a minimum $2000 (Q’s levels go up all the way to sending off $18,000 if you can believe that).
- You download Q’s postcards with your own referral number placed on these postcards.
- When you send these out, you’re told people will follow the instructions and login to the Too Damn Easy website and enter your referral number.
- They will then be closed by Q where he convinces them to buy into the Too Damn Easy system. They pay their $2000 which would go to you and then they download their own postcards and send them out and repeat the process.
More shady practices: Additionally, Q has at least 10 different domains he’s running this program off of. Many of these domains are still up and running, some come back with warnings of online scams, and some have been taken down.
- www.TooDamnEasy.com
- www.ExtremelyFastCash.com
- www.NextDayMoney.com
- www.CashGifting.net
- www.CashGifting.org
- www.CashGiftingProgram.com
- www.CashGiftingPrograms.com
- www.CashGiftingExpert.com
- www.TheCashGiftingExpert.com
- www.CashGiftingLeads.com
A step into the bizarre: There’s also a phone line you can call where you can listen to “Q” talk about his success. He offers up testimonials and vague “proof” of the validity of his system. He even has it set up so you can download information if you’re calling from A FAX MACHINE. I said at the onset you had to see it to believe it, right?
Even more bizarre, you also get access to a 25 page eBook that is 100% useless in my opinion. Yes, it is actually 25 pages. It explains the whole process in detail and touches on the different levels you can buy into.
How Much Money Can You Lose with Too Damn Easy?
Outright scam: I don’t usually throw the “scam” word around lightly. In fact, with 99% of my reviews, I go out of my way to let you know that, while some opportunities may be ripoffs or not worth your time, they are not actually scams by definition. They tend to always have some sort of product or service that you receive that makes them legal. This is not one of those opportunities.
There is NO product or service here! None. Zero. This is all about sending out your hard earned cash in the mail because a postcard told you to do it. And we still don’t even know who Q is!
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Legit Ways to Make Money Online
Don’t fall for get rich quick schemes. There are so many legit ways to make money online and you don’t have to spend thousands to learn how to do them right.
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Blogging and YouTube: We live in a time in history where everyday people can have massive platforms to speak from and earn from it. Have you seen how lucrative YouTube is? Don’t want to show your face? How about getting into blogging. And both can be started with zero money!
Selling digital products: Once you have a website (which is very easy to build) you can use this platform for so many things. One of which would be selling digital products. No shipping, no hassles, simply find a demand and satisfying it.
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📌 TL;DR Top 5 Reasons to Avoid Too Damn Easy
- Classic Cash Gifting Scheme: Too Damn Easy operates as a pyramid-style cash gifting scam — sending money to others with no real product or service behind it.
- Major Red Flags: An anonymous founder (“Q”), entry costs of $2,000 to $18,000, and postcard-based recruitment to strangers scream warning signs.
- Unethical and Illegal: Promising payouts for recruiting others without offering real value is both illegal and morally bankrupt.
- Targets the Vulnerable: The scheme preys on desperate individuals, exploiting dreams of easy wealth through deceptive marketing.
- No Tangible Value: Without any real product or service, Too Damn Easy is pure financial exploitation — not a legitimate business.
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Final Thoughts
Don’t lose your money getting duped by Too Damn Easy. This is a classic cash gifting scam to run from. There is no product or service being sold here. There is no benefit to any potential customers.
What do you think? Have you seen a scheme this bizarre before? Have you lost money to a cash gifting scheme? Ever been a part of one that worked for you? Leave your questions and comments in the comments section below. I always reply and I look forward to hearing from you.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Too Damn Easy a pyramid scheme or a legal cash gifting program?
Too Damn Easy is a classic pyramid scheme disguised as a cash gifting opportunity. There’s no product or service — just money exchanged to join and recruit others, which makes it illegal.
How much money do people lose in the Too Damn Easy scam?
Victims of Too Damn Easy report losses from $2,000 to $18,000. The scheme encourages sending large sums of cash by mail to strangers with no guaranteed return.
What are the red flags that prove Too Damn Easy is a scam?
Anonymous founder, no product, postcard marketing, fake urgency, and outrageous earning claims are all major red flags. If it walks like a scam and talks like a scam — it is one.
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Eric, only you could break down a scam like this and still make it easy to understand and entertaining. The postcard scheme had me shaking my head. Before learning from you, I probably would’ve at least paused to consider if it was real now, I can spot these things a mile away. I’ve been applying what you’ve taught, building my business slow and steady, no shortcuts or shady tactics (and definitely no postcards ????). Honestly, having your guidance has kept me on the right track. Keep these posts coming they’re making a real differences.
Thanks, Shawn.
I really appreciate that, Shawn! Thanks for the kind words!
Eric,
I came across your post, and my questions is: “If this is “illegal”, how has this been allowed to continue since 1998? We all know the FTC will sweep down like an eagle snatching their prey if this is illegal! Where are the State and Federal Investigators?” That’s a long haul since 1998, and no one has complained to the FTC?
Well, “Q” is an anonymous entity. Who do you come down on? Who do you enforce the rules against? People say all the time, “well just shut down the sites”, but we all know there’s illegal websites EVERYWHERE. The first MAJOR red flag just about anyone should notice is the fact that the founder is anonymous. Right there, huge red flag, turn and run. I appreciate the comment and question 🙂
VERY INTERESTING REVIEW, BUT MY QUESTION FOR YOU IS HAVE YOU ACTUALLY TRIED OUT THE PROGRAM EVEN AT THE RED LEVEL ($2,000)?…YOU KNOW, PUT YOUR MONEY WHERE YOUR MOUTH IS?…I AM JUST SAYING!…NOT JUST AN OPINION!…GOD BLESS AMERICA! 🙂
Something as obvious a scheme as this should NEVER be “tried out”. That’s really the entire point of this post. To help people avoid sending their hard earned money to a platform where the owner/creator is so untrustworthy that he never shows his face or gives his name. This isn’t rocket science. Stay away from scams like Too Damn Easy. But, that being said, if you want to throw $2000 at a company and never get it back, you are 100% free to do so. 🙂 Thanks for the comment!
I just don’t know how could someone trust a program like Too Damn Too Easy, when it clearly looks too damn shady! I wonder how they’re still on the market, considering they look like a scam from the first sight. Their postcard actually made me laugh out loud! So damn strange!
Lol, agreed! Thanks for the comment!
Eric, I’ve known Too Damn Easy since 2008 or around that time and Q has made millions but also there are other’s who have joined that made lots also…so this is not a scam…the thing that every one of these giting programs stress is “YOU HAVE TO PUT IN THE WORK TO PROMOTE IN ORDER TO GET RESULTS”…the cost is just what it cost…YOU ON THE OTHER HAND HAVE TO KEEP PROMOTING AND THAT’S WHERE YOU GET YOUR INCOME”…Please stop downing TDE…it’s a shame becvauses you can’t handle the cost, etc…IT’S WORKS!!!
This isn’t rocket science. There’s a reason why “Q” doesn’t show his face or reveal his identity. Cash gifting doesn’t work. It’s one of the most basic scams you can run. And when you say “all you have to do is keep promoting” by sending out your postcards, this is all in an attempt to find someone gullible enough through mass sendouts that they would actually fall for this obvious scam and and send money to a stranger. Everyone knows better than this. Thanks for the comment!
Hey dude, do people actually fall for a thing like this? I guess they do because they would be outta business if they didn’t have followers. I get it that some are naive when it comes to making business decisions. But this is even common sense of how human are. I feel there are some very credible scams out there that would even trick me if I am not aware, and then there is Too Damn Easy.
Agreed. It’s hard to imagine anyone believing this would work. Thanks for the comment!
NOT TRUE, ERIC…YOUR SLANDERING THIS LEGIT PROGRAM BECAUSE YOU CAN’T AFFORD TO JOIN!! OR IS JEALOUS…I KNOW FOR A FACT THAT IT WORKS!!!1
It’s pretty much impossible to slander a company whose founder and owner hides his identity because of the scam he’s running. Don’t send your hard earned money to strangers in a bizarre hope that other gullible strangers will send their hard earned money to you. This is the way 10 year olds think when they think of business. You know better than this. Thanks for the comment!
(Nov.2025) I was in his program for 13 years. Yes, you read that right. 13 damn years! And I feel like I got screwed over. I could write a book on what I went through just to be able to join the program in the first place. And the amount of work I put in just to be able to stay in it.
I joined up at the red level (around 2012). Started marketing the program like crazy. Come to find out, I had to rejoin because he got rid of the Red Level and didn’t tell anybody. So guess what I had to do? I had to come up with $6000 and rejoin if I wanted to be in the program. By some miracle, I was able to borrow $6000. Yes, I went into a lot of debt to be in this program. But that doesn’t matter to him.
In one of his Q-Box recordings, he says “it works for those who work it“. Well,There’s no damn body that can talk to me about working this program. Because I worked the absolute hell out of this program. I sacrificed everything just to keep this thing going because I believed in it and I had dreams that I wanted to pursue. Then one day, Q hits me with this “you need to upgrade to black“ thing. Yep, I was already in debt and had to find a way to get $12,000 to upgrade to black. Didn’t have it. And once I expressed that to him, he threaten to put me out the program. So basically, I had to pay certain amounts over time to get to black. So now I’m at the top right? I should be making a ton of money, right? NOPE.. guess what happened next?
He claims that my leads are unqualified. Meaning, the Leads I was mailing out to were unqualified to join his program. Well, where the hell do I find qualified leads?? At this point, I used just about every damn list I could find and could scrape up the money to get. Couldn’t get an answer to that question.
Let me just say also that over the span of 13 years, I received cash only twice. And I don’t think either one of those came from postcards. The first one came from craigslist and I believe the second one did too. The last time I received any cash was 2015.
Now back to my other point. I can actually write a whole blog myself over everything I went through with this guy. Then one day, He tells me that a member was abandoning the program and he is moving overseas. He tells me that his leads are “better than mine“ and because of my “unqualified leads”, I need to take over this member’s position in order to stay in the program. Well guess how much that was gonna cost me? $7000. Yep. Seven grand. So guess what I did? I went out and went into debt AGAIN to send off $7000. And a crazy part was that this happened right after I paid off the $6000 I borrowed to join up at Green. 🤦🏾♂️
In exchange, he promised to put me in his “high-end Lead campaign“. Now, this is a Lead campaign where he has access to Leads that are looking for what we have and they have cash in hand. He’ll never tell you where he gets these leads from. But apparently he has access to them. I was put in about four or five of these “campaigns”. And never saw a single dime. You would think something like this will be almost a guarantee that you’ll make money. At this point, I’m thinking there’s no reason I shouldn’t be receiving any money. I’m at the top, there’s no more money for me to send out and I’m put into these magical campaigns where I should raking in cash. NOPE.
Everything I’m explaining to you is over the span of 13 years. I can’t tell you how many times I borrowed money just to pay the membership fees. Speaking of that, that big 25 page download he has? He says the fees every six months is $500 at the black level. Guess how much I had to pay? $1000. Why? Your guess is as good as mine. Let me also add this: Q has waived my membership fee a few times over the years. So I’ll give him SOME credit for that.
In the end, after 13 years, he says that it wasn’t really working out because nothing was happening under my ID number and whenever I asked him about those magical Lead campaigns, he doesn’t give me a straight answer. Let me rephrase that. He doesn’t give me ANY answers. And I guess because that would require some honesty and some accountability for what you promised. He tells me that he’s gonna try to make something happen for me so I can “cross the finish line” and exit the program. But I had to pay my membership fee again. When I expressed my frustration finally about what I went through with this program, he threatened again to put me out. He then had the mitigated gall to tell me that I didn’t believe in this. That’s when I almost cussed his ass out. I didn’t stress myself out over this for13 years for my damn health. I pretty much had to beg this dude to let me send $1000 so I can stay. So I sent it. And as you can imagine, nothing happened. He didn’t help me “cross the finish line“. Nothing happened. So when it was time for me to pay my membership again this year in 2025, I just didn’t do it. There was no point. And if I confronted Q about it, he wasn’t gonna give me a straight answer.. he was only gonna be a smart ass. Haven’t heard a peep out of this dude since.
Did I receive cash? Yes. Only twice. But that’s nothing in comparison to all the debt I went into and all the money I paid just to be in this program. Mailing postcards is expensive. You have to have five pieces in order mail one postcard. The postcard, the postage, the envelope, the Lead label, and a return address label.
I sacrificed and worked this program to my absolute limits. While everyone was out taking trips during the summer, I was stuck in the house, trying to figure out how I can mail more stuff out while looking at this dude brag about his stacks of cash and his cat walking all over his Lamborghini.
I did what I did, and I take responsibility for it. But I didn’t join this program to make other people rich like I felt I did. I can go to a job for that. I joined this program and worked honestly and very hard, hoping that I can get ahead for once in life and see some dreams come true. Now I’m left with 13 years I’ll never get back. I’m now 50 years old. And no straight answers from this dude who never shows his face and lives on an island somewhere in the Caribbean.
There’s probably more I could say about what I went through with this program. And I do apologize for the lengthy post. That’s all I can think of right now in regards to this. Thanks for coming to my TED talk. #TooDamnEasy #2025 #QTheCashGiftingExpert #2026
– it’s late in 2025 as I’m writing this. I have a business I’ve been working for the past three years that’s going pretty well. I’m not gonna reveal what it is because it’s not your normal home based business and I’m not someone here to push anything on anyone. I’m an actual person who actually did this program and I wanna speak about my experience. I’ve held it back too long and it’s time. I put in a fraction of the effort I did with Q and I’m making money with this. That should say a lot. Am I making $6000 or more a pop? No. But did I go into debt over this significantly and was lied to? NO. That’s the crazy part. To anyone that that’s reading this and thinking about joining Q’s program, I’m not gonna tell you to not do it. You’re gonna do what you wanna do anyway. But I want you to read and hear from someone who spent a very significant time in this program and what it cost me not just financially, but in other ways as well.
~ MR
Now that is a testimonial. Wow.
I feel like this comment alone deserves a whole YouTube video. So many people fall for scams like this and can’t see how obvious the scam is until sometimes years later. I’m sorry that you went through something like this but please, please, please tell me you’ve learned your lesson. There are no shortcuts to business. Don’t fall for the convoluted compensation plans that some “guru” tells you is full proof and have you paying thousands for nothing. Thanks so much for your comment and I hope you find a way to dig yourself out of that debt!
PAOLO, PLEASE DO NOT LISTEN TO NA SAYER’S…TDE IS A LEGIT AND PROFITABLE PROGRAM AND I BET IF YOU PUT YOUR MONEY TO IT AND KEEP PROMOTING WITH YOUR POSTCARDS, YOU’LL MAKE MONEY FROM YOUR EFFORTS JUST LIKE ANY OTHER CASH GIFTING PROGRAM…
PLEASE DON’T JUST TAKE ANYONE’S COMMENTS LITERAL UNTIL YOU EDUCATE YOURSELF!!!
Too Damn Easy is neither legit nor profitable to anyone involved except for “Q” who doesn’t even reveal his identity due to the scam he’s running. It is never a good idea to send your money to strangers in the hopes that someone else just as gullible as you would send some back. It’s honestly a ridiculous concept. You should be ashamed of yourself for trying to promote something like this. Thanks for the comment!