Archive for the 'Scams' Category

By the time you read this, Craigslist will probably have deleted this post offering what sounds like a great work at home opportunity. These people seem to keep coming back again and again, so you may see it on other boards.
What made me very suspicious was that the text is an image, not actual text. [...]

As I’ve been scanning the work at home news in 2007, I’ve seen the same old tired articles warning about “Top Work At Home Scams”… you know “envelope stuffing” etc.
I usually write these off as the journalistic equivalent of telling adults who should know better not to put their hand near the flame or to [...]

Just because a “work at home” opportunity is on Monster.com, it doesn’t mean it’s legitimate. Here’s how several people got snookered by a work at home scam that sounded oh so real. It’s not only proven financially devastating to many, it’s broken up families in the process.
From EastBayExpress
When Bill Gluth saw the work-from-home sales job [...]

Does it seem to you that when a magazine has nothing better to say that they decide run an article about “home business scams” and “work at home schemes”?
They trot out the same tired examples… stuffing envelopes, chain letters, pyramid schemes etc. blah, blah, blah.
And of course they are wrong about some of the “scams” [...]

Here’s my question. I’d really like to know a program that’s fair to the customer (someone losing their home) and reasonably priced to the entrepreneur. If you’re out there, please let me know.
I see all these business opportunity ads telling me they’re going to help me get rich helping people keep from getting evicted from [...]

This is from Craigslist. When I got information back and informed the staff that indeed it was a scam, they removed it. But you will see it again!
If you see this ad, please realize it’s about sending them $10 by PayPal and they tell you how to post these ads to get $10 from other [...]

I don’t know why home business opportunity fans are prey to these financial schemes but one making the rounds is about “Mortgage Elimination”.
Listen, there’s no legal way to “eliminate a mortgage” that doesn’t involve paying it off.
There are legitimate “debt elimination” programs which involve paying off debts including mortgages using accelerated payments and such plans [...]

The U.S. Post Office is offering a Free DVD to warn the public about work at home scams.
From the USPS website…
Working at home has become attractive to many stay-at-home moms, college students, and retirees. While some jobs are legitimate, others just don’t deliver on their promises. This free, short film tells the story of a [...]

James Jones’ blog tuned me in to this amazing blog entry from, of all places, the Washington Post. It’s how one of their writers - Brian Krebs - found a site designed to look exactly like ebay’s login page so they can steal all your personal information.
Oddly enough, he even dug up a message on [...]

Beware electronic greeting cards from friends. It could cause you to lose all your personal information to thieves.
From USA Today

Cybercrooks are using e-cards that appear to come from a secret admirer in a scam to collect sensitive personal information, a security expert has warned.
Data including credit card numbers, online banking credentials, and log-in names and [...]