Scam Alert

This week I answer questions about working at home. Listen here or download. You can get the podcasts through iTunes as well. Listen here: Resources listed on the show: WHOIS

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…

Here's another scam that arrived in my email the other day. Unfortunately, I can't give the details about how the scam works because my virus protection gives me a BIG warning about not opening the page as there is malicious stuff that will…

The Federal Trade Commission reports that it stopped a nationwide job scam in which the defendants were selling government job listings. The complaint indicates that Frontier Publishing, doing business as American Data Group sold job…

I woke up to an inbox filled with email from "support manager" and "info manager" saying it was the IRS and that my tax return was incomplete. The email included an attachment and asked that I fill it out and supply I.D. to complete my…

// Here's another one of those fake news sites trying to dupe people into believing a news team has investigated their work-at-home program. I've watched the news for many years, and in my experience, when it covers working at…

The Federal Trade Commission requested a federal court to freeze the assets of the corporations collectively known as "I Works" and its leader, Jeremy Johnson for allegedly scamming more than $275 million dollars from consumers duped into…

I received this scam email the other day and wanted to share it with you. The gist of the email is that the countries of the U.N. are upset by the Nigerian scams and are compensating victims with $50,000. According to this email, a Nigerian…

I received this email the other day for a "par time job offer". Aside from the obvious typo in the subject line, this job offer has other red flags. 1) Companies don't bulk mail potential employees. They post jobs on job sites or…

I hate these emails because people get duped into these scams all the time. You need to know that there are no jobs (or businesses) as email processors. These scams are on online version of envelope stuffing. Essentially you pay $25 to…