Data Entry This is another of those "just won’t go away" scams. This is probably the most popular falsely advertised program on the Internet. It sounds like you’ll be just entering data from forms into boxes on a web-page or something. This is not a job like that. This is where they instruct you on [...]
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PayPal (and all other) Chain Letters DO NOT EVEN ATTEMPT THESE!! DO NOT GET INVOLVED!! DO NOT SEND ANY OUT!! These things have been around forever and have been illegal for just as long. Do not believe them when they say they are from a lawyer or that a lawyer has looked at it and [...]
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Paid Typing Programs Now you may think that these programs send you some kind of audio or something along that line and want you to transcribe it to typed format. Or you may think that these programs are some kind of data entry position. Wrong. These are nothing but scams that tell you to post [...]
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Mystery Shopper Notice a trend here? Yes, the previous items in my list all have something in common. They just sound so down right easy! After all you can do any of these things right? Anyone can! And the fact that they say they are going to pay you insane amounts of money to do [...]
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Paid Survey Sites Since these are related to the Paid-to-Read email type scams I thought I’d keep these together. Instead of getting paid to read emails, you get paid to take online surveys. In a nutshell this is how they work. You register with the company. This can either be free but most likely at [...]
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Paid-to-Read Emails These are probably the worst programs out there right now and have been for quite some time. I think it’s the simplicity of the system that makes it so appealing and why they have survived for so long. I mean think about it… "all I have to do is read emails and I [...]
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Freelance Writing This used to be advertised much more as a way to work from home but it has lost favor lately. Probably because people have finally caught on. Or more likely it was hard to make it sound easy so it was a bit harder to sell than most scams. Either way, it’s still [...]
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This series is devoted to exposing online moneymaking scams. This is the first installment of several types of rip-offs that will be listed here. Randomizers First things first. These are illegal. While there are a lot of scams on the Internet today that are illegal and that doesn’t deter people from joining and promoting them, [...]
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A perfect scam offer example, how to spot a money-making scam. Why part zero? I just got an email this morning with an excellent example of the type of offer you should be very careful accepting. So I put it before all the other posts I have in the queue. I’m going to break my [...]
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There are times when you’d rather not have a particular post “bleed” down and off the first page of your blog. You may have an offer that’s just too good to resist or you may even have a blog that is designed to do nothing but direct people to a particular offer. So you’ve written [...]
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