Comments on: Work At Home Scam Alert: Text Editing Job

By: Rolando Figueroa

Rolando Figueroa — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:34:46 +0000

I receive this email today 11/04/09 checked it out as I always do and came across your article explaining the type of scam this is. Thanks for the heads up. The website provided is the one that I am suppose to click on to send my information to.

stagebranch1985@yahoo.com

By: Shaun

Shaun — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 14:47:19 +0000

Great reporting!!! This is out and out MONEY LAUNDERING.

By: T.H. Tjan

T.H. Tjan — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 23:10:30 +0000

Thank you very much for taking the time reporting this scam. I really appreciate it. I too have received two or more of this same kind of email message. I almost responded to it, because it looks legit and something I could do at home while waiting for a permanent work.

By: mypoormother

mypoormother — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 19:04:38 +0000

My brother just called me 2 days ago informing me my mother has gotten into this sort of thing. She had been doing what seemed to be a legitimate work from home job for the past 6 months or so, but all of a sudden she’s stopped doing that and got involved in something where she’s already faxed a copy of her drivers license, a blank check, and other info. They apparently Western Unioned her a couple hundred bucks to “show they’re authentic” that she could keep. Now they’ve deposited around 8,000 dollars into her account, that in just a few days she’s supposed to withdraw and go to a different western union and wire the money to someone else. Fortunately, with the exception of the first 200, she hasn’t done anything with the major money and has already been to the bank and gave them all the info about this “company” and they are working to return the funds or whatever. My concern is she’s given out too much info that will possibly cause her major problems down the road (plus they now know where she lives too :/ ). FORTUNATELY, she was able to recognize she may be in something quirky and contacted her “more technical” sons in time to prevent major financial damage (she definately cannot afford to have to mess with legal issues and all, let alone getting her money stolen).

So, basically, I’m just writing this to tell everyone PLEASE, PLEASE pay attention to people you may know, especially the elderly or whatever people who maybe aren’t “on top of their game” (i.e. my mother) but still have a little bit of computer/internet know-how and think they may be able to make some easy money. It’s that old adage (sp?) “if it’s too good to be true, it probably is”. Seems there’s quite a few people who seem to forget that at the wrong time.

We should be finding out more info today or monday and hopefully she’ll be okay and good luck to the others that may have started getting into one of these and hope you can get out before anything happens (and for heaven’s sake, if you’ve already provide personal info like address, check, drivers license please take appropriate measures to protect yourself immediately, like putting fraud alerts on the 3 credit reporting agencies…you can do it for free by calling them or pay LifeLock to do it for you, bout to provide that info to my mom to have her do it).

Good luck all.

By: sharon

sharon — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 03:37:26 +0000

I would be very careful…that sounds like the same kind of job.

By: jesse

jesse — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 01:27:45 +0000

I have been working with a text comapany for a week now. ive done about 14 text now. i hope this isnt the same thing .i think its called wedding agency .i havent gave any personal info other then name and adress. Are there any legit text jobs out there

By: sharon

sharon — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:45:29 +0000

Susan, you are fine unless you accepted any of the payments, did any money transfers or sent them sensitive information like your social security number or bank account numbers, etc.

By: Susan

Susan — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 22:16:31 +0000

oh no…i responded to that email 2 days ago i think. i assumed it came from one of the temp agencies ive applied with. am i vulnerable now because i sent a response? i sure wish id seen this warning a few days earlier…

By: Geri

Geri — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 01:27:17 +0000

I got this email this week. I did some research and found the information here that answered my questions. Could this be true/ Is this a real work at home job? I’m so glad there are people out there that are willing to share information with each other and stop this scams from harming more people. “THANK YOU SHARON”.
EMAIL BELOW:
Good Day,

We offer a part time job on your computer.

Job Description:

We will provide you with the texts for our employees with the
important information and you will correct the texts as an English
speaking person and send them back to us.

Salary:

We don’t have a fixed salary for this vacancy. We will pay you $7.00
for every 1Kb of the corrected text. You will get paid at the END of
each month. Every month your salary will be different as it depends on
your activity.

Example:
If you correct about 5Kb (5kb it about 2 pages A4) of texts per day
you will get over $1000.00 at the end of the month.

Requirements:

-Location: Has no value (the main good knowledge of English language)
-Age: 21+
-Home computer, e-mail address and Microsoft Word
-Responsibility

To apply for job please send us the following information to:
__________
FULL NAME:
HOME ADDRESS:
CITY, STATE, ZIP CODE:
Phone number (home or cell, but SHOULD BE available any day time):
E-MAIL:
AGE:
OCCUPATION:
EDUCATION:
AVAILABLE HOUR TO WORK WITH US:
___________

As soon as we revise your application we will contact you within 24 hours.

If you have any additional questions, feel free to ask.

Awaiting for your application.

–
Thank you,
Love & Wedding

By: Jim

Jim — Wed, 27 May 2009 16:26:31 +0000

Wow! Great article! I received this e-mail scam today!