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Work at Home Schemes / Get Rich Quick Schemes
Working online from the comfort of your own home earning enough money for a comfortable life is obviously appealing to just about everyone with an Internet connection, and cyberspace is most certainly flush with thousands of “opportunities” that claim you can do just that, but the fact is that most of these opportunities are nothing more than scams and rip-offs, fooling the victim into thinking they will make money when all they will be doing is handing over their cash to the scammers and getting useless information in return. If you are looking for information on “investment” schemes, which involve recruiting, downlines, sponsoring and any kind of pyramid structure, you should visit the Pyramid/Ponzi/MLM section of the site. Scams that sell useless information. The most common type of work-at-home scam is the typical get-rich-quick scheme which claims you can get rich by following some proven system or underground secret technique that will allow anyone fortunate enough to learn the information the key to making lots of money online. However, whilst these schemes often do provide marketing information, the employ many misleading traits to trick people into buying this information. Foremost, scams like this try and promote the illusion that there are “systems” and “secrets” and “methods” that will make it easy and quick to make lots of money online. This is false. We have a full article on these get-rich-quick schemes, how they operate and how you can spot them here. A direct variant to this scam is the Google/Twitter scams which claim you can make money performing tasks like “posting links on Google”. However, these schemes sell marketing information on Google, that just like get-rich-quick schemes, is near useless and will not make people who sign up rich. These schemes have also inspired many other variants that use a slightly different angle to hook victims. Such variations typically sell the same kind of Internet marketing information but use a different angle such as data entry work-from-home scams and rebate/application processing work-at-home scams. These schemes also sell marketing information but disguise them more as “jobs” as opposed to promoting “systems” or “methods”. The ways these variations are promoted are equally immoral and people enrolling are equally unlikely to make any significant money. These schemes will claim you can make good money doing menial tasks on the Internet as soon as you pay the registration fee. Not the case, however. Another spin-off to this type of scam is the “Auction Listing Agent Scams” that claim you can make money selling items on EBay for companies. (many classic examples claim you can make money selling for Fortune 500 companies) However, just like all the scams listed above, these schemes sell useless information – in this instance the information is targeted at using auction sites like EBay and CraigsList. These schemes imply that once victims pay and sign up, they will learn how to become “certified auction agents” when in reality there is no such thing. Victims are actually paying for information they can get free elsewhere and once they “complete” the material/course, they are not in any position to make money as implied on the sales pitch of the website. Check Cashing Scams A more serious type of work-at-home scam comes in the form of various check cashing scams which aim to dupe victims into cashing fake checks and forwarding the money back to the scammer (usually via Western Union or MoneyGram) before the victim realises the check was fake. Check cashing scammers take advantage of the ability that people have to withdraw the money from a check before the check officially clears. This means that by the time the victim has wired the money to the scammer, the check bounces and the victim has to pay the bank back. With most check cashing scams, the template remains almost identical and it is only the story and excuses the scammer uses that will change. With all cases, the scammer sends the victim a fake check, tells them to cash it and then requests either the entire amount or a percentage be wired back to them (or to “another person”) before the fake check bounces. Many of these check cashing scams take on the variation of work-at-home jobs, and popular examples include “regional payment agent”, “regional payment processor” or mystery secret shoppers. The excuses scammers make to persuade the victim to wire transfer a portion of the money back can also vary, and can include that the victim was “accidentally overpaid”, or that they need to forward a percentage of the money on to pay somebody else. Essentially any job title can be utilised by the scammers, and any excuse can be made to get them to wire money back once they cash the fake check, so online job hunters are to be advised to turn down any jobs where they are expected to accept checks from people they have not met and then wire transfer money back/forward. Any such jobs are virtually guaranteed to be online check cashing scams. A variation of a check cashing scam comes in the guise of reshipping scams, where victims are lured by the promise of a good wage simply for receiving and forwarding packages. They are sent packages and a fake check and are told to pay for the shipping using a portion of the amount on the fake check and the remainder of the check would constitute their wages. This scam is particularly dangerous as the packages can contain anything and the victim may end up being an unwitting merchant mule, shipping illegal goods out of the country. If caught, it is the victim, not the scammer that is taking the risks. Also inherent with these scams is the risk of identity theft. You can read more about reshipping scams here. For more information on check cashing scams and other variants they can take, you can go to our section of the site Check Cashing Scams here. Product/Material Scams Another type of scam that has been prolific for years is the material/product scams which claim to send materials for victims to put together into a final product. The victim sends back the final products in order to get a payment per product they construct. However the scammers reject the products regardless of quality and tell the victim that their work has been rejected and they will not be paid. The scammers make their money by getting victims to pay a sign up fee in order to get the materials in the first place. 419 Nigerian Fraud 419 scammers also take advantage of the popularity of working from home, and many advertise jobs that allow the recipient to work from their home computer. Like all 419 scams however, victims are expected to pay an “advanced fee” before they are permitted to start work. Once the victim pays this fee, they find that they are expected to pay other costs (typically instructed to wire the money via Western Union). Of course the job on offer never exists, and this variant of scam ends when the scammer runs out of reasons for getting the victim to make payments or when the victim refuses to make anymore payments. At this point communication between the scammer and victim ends with the victim losing the money they sent to the scammer. |
Recent Get-Rich-Quick Schemes
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rebateprocessing.net
added on 12/15/10 rebatedataprocessor.com added on 12/15/10 rebate-processor.com added on 08/31/10 Recent Online Data Entry Scams
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added on 05/17/11 Facebook Dislike Button Messages added on 05/16/11 Facebook Scam - Have You Been Tagged in a YouTube Video? added on 05/16/11 Nicole Santos Offensive Facebook Links added on 05/12/11 Preventing SPAM/Verify Account Facebook Message added on 05/12/11 |
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