Does Melissa Johnson really make money from home?
A new surge of work-from-home “opportunities” are on the loose, baiting readers into purchasing kits which – according to their sales pages – will allow readers to make as much as £3000 per month.
However for our more sceptical readers, it is not all as it seems.
Most users will be lured with what appear to be online news articles from sites like www.careerjournalonline.org which use clickbaity sensationlist headlines like EXPOSED: [town name] Mum Makes £6,000/Month From Home And You Won’t Believe How She Does It!
The website detects your local town based on your ISP’s IP address and enters the town it thinks it most local to you into the headline. This method of “localising” the story to you is common amongst work-from-home scams and is used to help increase sales conversion rates.
Despite giving the appearance of a news outlet, www.careerjournalonline.org is anything but. In reality it’s a sales page setup by the same people who own the product it is purportedly advertising.
In fact the entire site is fake. None of the links work, or they all point to the same sales page. There are no reports or journalists at work here, just scammers trying to lure you into signing up.
Once you click on one of the links you’re taken to the sales page at – in this case – advancingincome.com – which essentially regurgitates the same sales drivel, though also includes some hidden terms and conditions that effectively say you’re not likely to make any money at all – somewhat a polar opposite to the sales page that promises easy riches.
These scams sell useless marketing information under the guise of a revolutionary marketing system. The specifics of the information they sell is best summed up on our page that deals with work-from-home scams and also provides some useful information for people who are looking to make money online. You can read that section on posting links and work from home scams here.
It if looks too good to be true, then it probably is. These work-from-home opportunities are anything but. They’re regurgitated sites that spring up in almost identical fashion every few months, changing little except their web addresses.
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