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Work at home opportunities, for real or fraud?
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Sunny du Pree
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 		Work at home opportunities, for real or fraud?
So I am looking to pick up some extra scratch but am very dubious about certain "online jobs" that I have found. With the intelligent life that reads these forums... I bet there is someone out there that knows about these companies and if they are for real or fraud.

http://www.workathomeincomeopportunities.com/

http://www.workathomemailprocessors.com/

In my experience if it is too good to be true.... it usually isnt.
thankyou for your support
*woot 550 posts as of today, at this rate there is no way i will catch up to magesteff*
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 		I checked out these links while having the Lacuna Inc. website open in the background (http://www.lacunainc.com/home.html). With their music, this got really wierd!

Very Happy
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Sunny du Pree
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Zeitgeist wrote:
I checked out these links while having the Lacuna Inc. website open in the background (http://www.lacunainc.com/home.html). With their music, this got really wierd!

Very Happy


LELELLE I know what you mean. I thot that they were strange without the music..Those peeps look like they are on heavy meds. Laughing Laughing Laughing
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 		I don't know about those companies, but if you'd be interested in some secret shopper work there are a couple of good companies out there like secretshop.net. I basically get paid to order pizzas every week and shop at Walgreens.
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 		You could work at home sending out mass e-mail spam.


Of course, we'd kill you, but you would make a couple bucks before then.
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 		Let me ask a friend about these...she's sort of an expert on internet scams.

EDIT: here's her reply.

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http://www.workathomeincomeopportunities.com/
Red flags go up all over the place on this one. It's a collection of ads for dubious schemes.
We do not accept names from phone books, but by following the simple instructions we provide, you will continually generate 100's even 1000's of names!This usually means "we will give you some dumb ad to spam or to post in your grocers or to spend money to place classified ads. We'll send you $1.00 fo reveryone who answers your ad and say they want to learn more about our swell money-making opportunity."

Envelope stuffing EVERYONE warns about this one http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/12/16/national/main588847.shtml . Same with Assemble crafts Beware Of Envelope-Stuffing Scam

Assemble Crafts (or Electronics) at Home http://www.friendsinbusiness.com/scams/assembly.shtml
Translation: Send us money for supplies
and we'll tell you the many ways your work sucks.

Get paid for surveys Yes, you can get paid for surveys, but that $75 that appears in the ads is real hooey. A number of consumer research outfits will have you take online surveys for which you earn points that can be redeemed for cash or more usually, "valuable prizes". You do not need to pay anyone to join one of these. I belong to this one, one of the most reputable NFO. Most surveys earn you 10 points; 1,000 points = $10.00 cash. I get maybe 2 surveys a month--you do the math. I do it for fun, not money. However, once you have been with them for a while, you will get offers to test products. I've gotten free shampoo, cat food, toilet paper and trash bags. I still use the (inexpensive) electric toothbrush they sent me.


http://www.workathomemailprocessors.com/

Looks like more envelope stuffing. "NEVER requires you to do ANY Advertising Ever! We provide the envelopes, sales letters and customer mailing labels!" They probably expect you to come up with the names to put on the mailing labels and will pay you a small commission if someone actually buys the stuff.

While looking up this stuff, I blundered back into a really great site to send people to. It's called Friends in Business http://www.friendsinbusiness.com/. It's a down home site put up by a woman who woke up and realized that all those work-at-home schemes were bogus. She lost over $30,000 before wising up. She covers envelope stuffing, crafts assembly, sell recipes and more. She's got a message board. You can post & ask about a scam. Folks sometimes find her site more believable than some government outfit.


The real racket is AC Nielsen, the TV rating people. They also do consumer monitoirng. They have to find you--you can't just sign up, because they hunt for specific demographics. I have this doohickey that scans bar codes. I scan everything I buy & add info about where I bought it & how much I paid. Once a week I upload into the phone. You get points for uploading, for taking surveys and whatnot. I've used points to get my hairdryer, my phone answering machine and a zillion feature Swiss army knife. I just discovered that I now have enough points for a DVD player which I've been wanting. They also have monthly sweepstakes for cars & things. I'm still waiting to win one of those.


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