Sep 27, 2006
Work from home scams - overview
In this series of blogs, I’ll be concentrating on scams executed completely over the internet and scams that use internet as a mode to look up probable victims. I know it’ll be too hard to believe for some that the wonderful opportunity they just came across or are already into is nothing but a scam or just the beginning of a big chain scam, trust me, most of these schemes are nothing more than a tech version of regular scams no one will fall for in real life.
Lately, I’ve seen a lot of friends falling for work from home/ earn from home scams and a majority of these friends came across such fraudulent schemes through the internet. I won’t blame my friends for falling in their trap so easy, I am a copywriter myself and the level of persuasiveness these scammers are able to bring in their advertisements amazes me….
check out these examples of scams
normally, it would take me hours of research to identify such right buttons, their attention to details is perfect.
normally, it would take me hours of research to identify such right buttons, their attention to details is perfect.
Such Advertisements by scammers can be found all over the place: under street lights, on telephone boxes, public walls, newspapers, magazines and nowadays also on websites, blogs, forums, emails, chat rooms and all probable places where you can find people in need of a job or a few extra bucks. The reason why these schemes are able to catch the attention of so many people is simple - everyone wants to make easy money. Now, who wouldn’t want to make those few easy extra bucks from the comfort of their home at their own time or take “work from home” full time and lead a better life.
Most of these scams are executed in two steps, first they offer some info, mostly for free or at a nominal cost (to give the whole thing a professional touch) of anything around $25 (Rupees 500 in Indian scenario). Once you’ve signup/paid you are promptly provided with the promised information through email or pamphlets. In the second step you are generally asked to pay hundreds of dollars or rupees for detailed information and/or supplies and equipments. People who are able enough figure out the whole thing somewhere in between this period, while the others go on and at the end find themselves left stranded and ripped off of quite a big amount.
While some scams don’t even come to the second step, others assess your anxiety to make money and rip you with your own consent. Most of the one-step-scam scammers accept payment in online accounts via all major credit cards and these guys withdraw their money from online accounts, so once you’ve paid… you’ve lost your money. Charge-back on your credit card is the only option you are left with, which again is very complicated.
Known types of earn/ work from home scams/ frauds are:
a. Business Opportunity
b. Medical billing centers
c. Envelop stuffing
d. Assembly or craft work
e. Free goods
f. Forex exchange
g. Product testing
h. Read and review books
i. Data entry jobs
j. Multi-level-marketing (MLM)
k. Matrix programs
l. Pyramid scams
m. Telemarketing scams
n. Water testing scams
o. Posting ads
p. Forum posting
q. Processing claims
r. Sending bulk email
s. Typing at home
If you know of any other form of scams that offer money for working from home, let me know.
a. Business Opportunity
b. Medical billing centers
c. Envelop stuffing
d. Assembly or craft work
e. Free goods
f. Forex exchange
g. Product testing
h. Read and review books
i. Data entry jobs
j. Multi-level-marketing (MLM)
k. Matrix programs
l. Pyramid scams
m. Telemarketing scams
n. Water testing scams
o. Posting ads
p. Forum posting
q. Processing claims
r. Sending bulk email
s. Typing at home
If you know of any other form of scams that offer money for working from home, let me know.
I’ll explain all these types of scams and how they are executed soon, but the next blog will be on internet scams, scams that are completely executed over the internet. Until then, I’d like to leave you with one line,
“If it’s too good to be true then most probably it isn’t…”
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3 Comments, Comment or Ping
Pallab
There are a lot of real forum posting companies that actuall pays you. Not all of them are scam.
Also its possible to earn with forex if you are good at it. Its definitely not a scam thing.
The thing with MLM/Pyramid/Matrix is that you win if you join early or you can refer people.
The highest no. of scams are seen in HYIP and Autosurfing arena. And you misses them. There are atleast 10 new programs created everyday in this field.
You also missed get paid to click. But again not all get paid to click programs are scam.
Another type is Get paid to sign up. But again there are legit programs in this arena also.
Dec 2nd, 2006
deena
There are many legitimate work at home jobs, if work hard and have some skill, you can earn money
Dec 4th, 2006
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