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Work at home scam: University

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Work at home scam: University

Yesterday, I received three emails in a fairly short period of time – fortunately, they automatically went to spam so there was no danger of mixing them up with anything that was even close to real, but even if that had not happened, it was fairly evident quickly this was yet another work at home scam. Frankly, because the emails are so comical, I feel like I should share them. Take a look at this crap:       Now, crappy grammar aside, this is clearly someone’s idea of making “original” content by spinning. Another failure but that’s neither here…

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Six or Seven Figure Income: Save your money!

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Six or Seven Figure Income: Save your money!

I just love running into things that smack of schemes that are designed to separate people from their hard earned money. This morning, I was “cleaning” my Twitter account (which is a disaster looking for a place to happen!) and ran across a site that promised me I could have multiple six-figure months in the next twelve months by investing in their program. Unfortunately, while I was doing my homework (which I’m wont to doing) I found another site that is promoting one section of this “worthy” program promising me a potential of multiple seven-figure months.  Go figure. Before you…

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Evaluating Online Business Opportunities

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Evaluating Online Business Opportunities

The Internet has opened up several online business opportunities that can turn into full-time income generators. While there are many legitimate online business opportunities, many more are frauds. When researching opportunities, research will help ensure the opportunity is legitimate. Some of these include: Contact information Numerous companies offer affiliate marketing opportunities as well as the potential to start e-commerce businesses.  All too frequently, these sites are shadow companies that are set up for the specific reason of collecting fees from unsuspecting entrepreneurs. One way to avoid this problem is to review the website and look for the companies contact information.…

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How to Create Online Income to Pay Bills

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How to Create Online Income to Pay Bills

Internet marketing, freelancing, article writing and blogging are all possible ideas to earn money online. Can they really help pay bills? The economy is in difficult shape, this is no big secret to anyone. For many, this means looking at additional means of earning income to help pay bills. Chances are that if you are like thousands of other people, you are searching online for opportunities that will allow you to earn additional income. While it is true that there are ways that you can earn income from various online activities, it is important that you know what you are getting…

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Running under the radar

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Running under the radar

This past week on the radio here in our local area (Boston) I have been hearing about “Flip this house” seminars that are being offered “Free” for a limited number of people. While I question how “limited” these seminars are when you are advertising on the television, I would also like to warn people about how these things work and make sure that you don’t wind up getting taken advantage of by these less than honest snake oil salesmen. The gig is up: Promises that cannot be kept For the everyday person, it is important to understand these guys are…

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Spammer: Kizi Games

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Spammer: Kizi Games

Seriously? I get all kinds of spam comments but this one has to take the cake. This guy is from Isreal and is on a number of blacklists. You can see the on this blacklist check that the IP address 212.117.143.69 is where they are coming from. Now why they pick a freelancing site to try to promote a gaming site beats the crap out of me, but so be it. I deleted most of the comments but here’s the general gist: kizi kizinew.net 212.117.143.69 Submitted on 2013/01/05 at 3:03 am kizi… Almost all of what you point out is…

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Con Artists Prefer Silence

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Con Artists Prefer Silence

The Audacity of Dope I have been managing websites for nearly 10 years. During this time, I have used Doteasy for most of my hosting needs. One of the reasons I like Doteasy is because it’s easy to use, they don’t do a lot of advertising on your site and the “basics” are free. In fact, I have approximately ten domains listed there. Then things changed. I decided in September of last year to purchase a domain. I happen to like the WordPress formats and I find them far easier to use than a standard website so I decided to…

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Who is making money on Internet scams

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Who is making money on Internet scams

You might be surprised! I’ve done a fair amount of scam bashing. Ironically enough, it’s easy to overlook the fact that these scam sites are making money every time someone goes to their websites. What you may lose in the frustration of tripping over another one of these scams is that there is money being made by someone. Just not the people who are cursed enough to sign up for them. How they make money Keep in mind there are programs that pay per view for advertisements. What happens is these scam artists who are promoting these bogus programs work…

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Why it’s easy to fall for work at home scams

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Why it’s easy to fall for work at home scams

Behind the cloak of legitimacy Internet scam games are pretty common, even back in the late 80s and early 90s, there were hundreds of them that were rampant. Today, Internet scammers are more prolific than ever and they are preying on people who are smart enough to steer clear of fake product offerings. But the story remains Unfortunately, many work at home scams hide behind a cloak of legitimacy. They “claim” to have been highlighted on popular television stations, claim a “relationship” to popular websites and display other signs of being legitimate. Unfortunately, you do have to spend some time…

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Stop the scams from winning

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Stop the scams from winning

Well, they think they are One of the problems that you run into online is that anyone can write anything and expect that at least one person will believe them no matter how outrageous the claim. I recently received an email from a person who promotes affiliate marketing options online and telling me that I was basically clueless and misinformed. I’m a lot of things: Misinformed IS NOT one of them. I always pursue with great interest any site that tells me that I can earn money online. After all, I work at home and an extra dollar or two…

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The care and feeding of Internet scams

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The care and feeding of Internet scams

Hard to protect yourself Less than 10 years ago, if you were to search the Internet for a company that was scamming people it was as simple as putting their name into the search engine and typing “scam” right after it. Unfortunately, these high-end scam artists have learned the secret to making sure that they have time to perpetuate their scams. In fact, one need only look as far as the latest craze to hit the Internet, Wazzub to see some of the truly stupid things that they are trying to convince people are possible. For example, Wazzub was called…

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Make real money on the Internet without scams

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Make real money on the Internet without scams

Scams pop up every minute For those who are looking for legitimate ways to make money on the Internet, it seems that there is a new scam popping up every day. Fortunately, while there are hundreds of scams, there are also some legitimate ways that you can earn money, from home, on the Internet. The irony is that these opportunities are not that hard to find, the problem is that people expect overnight success! Scammers getting smarter One of the hazards of depending on basic research for weeding out scams is that many of these people are getting smarter. In…

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Why do people fall for Internet email scams?

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Why do people fall for Internet email scams?

Internet scams – we have all seen them. They offer everything people are looking for. Whether you are searching for a real work at home job or you are interested in lotteries, they are everywhere. The range of scams is downright frightening ranging from “you have won a vacation” to “I’m stuck in (name of country) and I lost my passport send money”. There are of course the typical scams the Nigerian 419 scams that tell you that a “relative died and left you money”. One must assume that since these scams continue to show up in our emails is…

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Recognizing work at home scams

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Recognizing work at home scams

Now in this day and age, most people do know that there are opportunities to earn money from home. However, the truth of the matter is that for every legitimate offer out there that allows you a good opportunity, there are at least ten more that are scams. Avoiding these scams is not always that easy because so many of these fake opportunities look real when you first look at them. In some cases, they “hide” under names that make them “look more important” than they really are. While it is possible to “dig down” into a website using Whois,this…

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Wake up already

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Wake up already

While it’s possible to run into trouble regardless of how much you check into things, I wanted to prepare a list of common flags that you can use while you are searching for work at home opportunities. Some of these are pretty easy to identify but just in case, you should keep yourself clear of this particular red flags: Upfront payments – You know, regardless of what you’ve been told, you don’t have to pay money to make money.  Now there are a few exceptions, such as payment for a domain name or web hosting and the rare freelancing site…

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