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Work At Home Scam Busting - 21 Signs of a Rip Off

97% of work at home websites are scams, and new swindles are launched every day. But they’re mostly variations on old themes. Here are the most common: # 1 — Bait and switch: They offer you a free access to their listings. They’ll even email you new listings as they’re added. Of course, the listings […]

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Work At Home—Scam, um, Advice

We don’t post all the comments we receive because many of them, the majority in fact, are spam. However, in the interest of education, we thought we’d share this one. It came from Tony, at FatPocket.com, in response to our Work-At-Home & Home Business Scam series: It’s true that there are many “work from home” […]

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Work At Home Scams about Scams

There are a growing number of web sites, blog posts, and YouTube/Google videos that purport to be a scam exposé, repleat with warnings about how you can be ripped off, but they’re really ads for the product they’re reviewing. And those products really are scams! The odd thing is they must work, because we’re seeing […]

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Work-At-Home Scambusting: Part 2

New work-at-home job and business opportunity scams are launched every day. That’s why we started this scambusting series and why we’ll continue it every Friday until we run out of scams—in other words, not anytime soon. There’s obviously no honor among thieves in this business so rather than inventing something new, the majority of the […]

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Feds Target Work At Home Scams—Part 1: Scambusting

  Earlier this week we announced that we’d be starting a new blog series dedicated to helping you sniff out work-at-home and home-based business scams. We’ll start with some of the diabolical schemes the Federal Trade Commission uncovered in its Project False Hope initiative. While these low-lifes were captured in the sweep, if you’ve been […]

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