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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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Scambusting Work-At-Home “Opportunities”

If you’ve spent any time looking for home-based work, you’ve no doubt already been exposed to the pandemic of false opportunities that plague the Web. All of our posts in the How To Find Work At Home series remind you to be on the look out for scams and virtual boogie men who, unfortunately, lurk […]

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