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There was a job posted on my site today that immediately aroused my suspicions. The job was “Part time job: editing texts”. Here’s the 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 [...]
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Today there was a job posted on my site that immediately aroused suspicion. The job was for a “package manager”. Since I have seen many scams that involve shipping packages, I knew I should really look at this one. Here’s what they posted: Honest workers needed for a package processing company located in NY, but [...]
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The worse the economy gets, the more active the scammers are. Today someone emailed me to ask my opinion on a mystery shopper job they’d been offered. They had received this letter along with a check for $3,900: As you can (barely) see, the letter directs the new employee to cash the check and then [...]
The Internet Crime Complaint Center, a partnership between the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C), and the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA). today issued a warning about work at home scams: Consumers need to be vigilant when seeking employment on-line. The IC3 continues to receive numerous complaints from individuals [...]
While identity theft is nothing new, the Web has opened up whole new world of opportunity for identity thieves. According the FBI, identity theft is the top online fraud. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission says that identity theft is it’s number one source of consumer complaints – 42 percent of all complaints. The thief will [...]
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Newspaper ads claiming to offer medical billing jobs are turning out to be nothing but a scam. The ad says, “Do medical billing at home for doctors” and gives an 800 number. You get a recorded message… “You get paid for as many as you do. Four to seven dollars each, depending on the length. [...]
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There comes a point where someone pushes you over the edge and you just want to scream. I want to scream right now. One of my long term subscribers, a woman who (no matter what I tell her) continually falls for work at home “data entry” ads. I don’t even want to know how much [...]
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Tired of wasting your time on work at home job leads that turn out to be scams? Me too. A big part of what I spend my time doing is looking for new clients who hire telecommuters who will post their job listings on my site. One way I do that is to search for [...]
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It’s bad enough to be one of the growing number of jobless, but to be scammed by a con artist offering a work at home job can mean complete financial ruin. Most work at home scams fall into one of two categories: The Phishing/Money Laundering type or the Pay A Fee To Get Started type. [...]
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