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31 Days to Work At Home Success Day 10: Avoiding Scams

January 10, 2012   LTruex   No comments
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There are two reasons people fall for scams: 1) Lack of knowledge and 2) Acting from emotional not rational.

When it comes to avoiding scams, the more you know about working at home the better. After years and years of work-at-home books and websites telling people that envelope stuffing is a scam, people still get snared by it. Same with assembly work. Before pursuing any work-at-home venture, read and research about working at home. What do people who work at home do (hint: they don’t stuff envelopes)? What is telecommuting and why do companies allow it? What’s involved in a home business? Are business opportunities on the up and up? How can you know? All these questions can be answered by reading books and quality work-at-home websites like Work-At-Home Success.

Once you’re armed with knowledge, use it to keep your emotions in check. Scammers are brilliant copywriters who are able to snare you with their hype about money, paying off debt, staying home with kids, driving fast cars and living in big houses. We see those words and think, “That’s what I’ve been looking for… big pay for no work.” Next thing you know, you’ve been scammed. If you find opportunities that sound interesting to you, do more research. Talk to others who do that type of work or business. Sleep on it.

There are several resources at Work-At-Home Success that provide scam information and alerts.

Scams: Provides a list of scams to avoid and tips for evaluating work-at-home opportunities.

Scam Alerts: Is a list of recent posts about new scams you should avoid.

Always avoid:

Envelope stuffing
Assembly work
Email processing
Rebate processing
Money processors (Never help a company process its payments through your bank account!)
Jobs (offers of employment) that require money
Business opportunities that don’t have a product or service.
Anything promising big money with little effort.

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SCAM ALERT! Scammers Using Red Cross Name in Fake Check Scam

November 30, 2011   LTruex   No comments

I received an email to day from the “Red Cross” about a job offer. It asked if I wanted to work at home from my computer with the “world’s largest humanitarian network” (Red Cross) and earn up to $6,000 USD/monthly. Who wouldn’t, right? I hate emails like this because using a name like Red Cross and creating a site that looks legit, dupes so many people out of their money. But careful scrutiny and research reveals this email to be a fake check scam.

Red Flag Number 1: The email has a .fr ending, suggesting its from France, not the U.S.
Red Flag Number 2: The email does NOT come from a Red Cross domain (i.e. redcross.org).
Red Flag Number 3: The website URL is not a Red Cross website (i.e. redcross.org)
Red Flag Number 4: The job entails collecting donation payments through “bank transfer, Checks and Money Order”

I contacted the Red Cross who said, “Thank you for contacting the American Red Cross. The email you referenced is a scam. The appropriate office has been notified.”

This is a fake check scam. Essentially you’d receive money from “donors”, put it in your bank, then get a cashier’s check for the donation minus your fee, and send it to the “Red Cross” (although it wouldn’t really be the Red Cross). In a few days or weeks, your bank would call you and tell you the check you cashed is bad and that you need to cover it. If you didn’t have the money, you’d lose access to your account. Even worse, you could be arrested for depositing a fake check.

Remember, the odds of you getting a job offer out of the blue in your email is nil, zilch, zero. Companies don’t need to email people to fill their positions. They post open jobs on job boards and let you apply to them.

If you get this email, delete it!

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