Don’t Be a Fool …
Friday, March 30th, 2012 at 11:03 am
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Scam Warnings Archives
Perfect Example of a Work at Home Scam
Wednesday, January 11th, 2012 at 6:21 am
While it’s for sure not always possible to tell a work at home scam site at a glance, there are still several glaring examples out there of sites you should probably not look at for longer than a few seconds before you click away. Here is a screenshot (which if you click on it will take you to the actual site so you can view the large version) of a…
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How the Check Cashing Scam Could Land You in Jail
Wednesday, December 21st, 2011 at 7:50 am
It’s been a while since I’ve done a post about a scam, but there are two — the check cashing scam and the package shipping scam, that could land you in jail. Today I’m just going to focus on the check cashing scam. You may know about this one, but if you don’t, please read! The more…
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Multi-Level Marketing and Pyramid Schemes
Friday, October 7th, 2011 at 11:34 am
When you start researching work at home, you’ll inevitably find some info on multi-level marketing and pyramid schemes. These two are not exactly the same and it’s important to understand the difference because this is territory where you need to step very carefully before getting involved.
Pyramid Schemes
Pyramid schemes are illegal. They work something like this…
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Scams Involving 1-900 Numbers
Monday, September 26th, 2011 at 8:10 pm
I’ve done several posts lately on work at home scams and what to watch out for. Today I want to briefly discuss one of the scams than can cost you dearly — in many cases moreso than several of the other things I’ve mentioned. 1-900 scams are everywhere and they don’t just involve working at home, but many…
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Avoiding Craigslist Writing Scams
Monday, September 12th, 2011 at 9:14 am
Craigslist can be a great place for freelance writers to find work, but it’s also filled with scam job postings for writing work (and also other kinds of work from home). I’m posting this today because one of my regular readers had a bad experience after taking a writing job she found posted on Craigslist. I’ll…
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Envelope Stuffing Scams
Friday, August 19th, 2011 at 1:02 pm
I’ve been trying to address some of the more popular scams out there on my website so you’ll know what to watch out for! In spite of the fact that the whole envelope stuffing thing was exposed as a scam a long time ago and most people are wise to it now, the ads still appear everywhere. I see them quite frequently in the classifieds sections of local…
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Data Entry Scams
Sunday, August 7th, 2011 at 11:06 pm
I’ve gotten so many inquiries lately from people looking for legit data entry and also asking me if certain websites were scam-free (that weren’t) that I wanted to just go ahead and address data entry scams right here and now. It’s very hard for work at home newbies to be able to differentiate from what’s legit and what isn’t…
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