Tag: work at home

February 20, 2020

Work from Home Scams

There are large numbers of people who work at home as writers, consultants, Marketeers, IT, sales, translators etc. but there is also a big demand for part time jobs that can be done at home without needing such specialised skills and knowledge.

These can include work such as article writing, cold calling, proof-reading, Internet research, customer service, data entry, social media, search engine optimisation and thousands of other opportunities.

Figures suggest that 95% of emails offering work from home are scams, so you need to be careful and check up as much as possible before signing up to any such offer.

One site with genuine work at home jobs is Working Mums at www.workingmums.co.uk/home-working-jobs/

Warning Signs

Anything that seems too good to be true is likely to be a scam. People do not pay high wages for simple tasks to be done.
They ask for money up-front, with the promise that you’ll make it back many times over. Unlikely.
There is no personal contact – a job stuffing envelopes may not need an inter=view or any personal contact but anything more complicated does.
They use a personal email account e.g. Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail etc. and their web site is not very professional or even non existent.
The job description is vague means it’s a scam designed to suck in as many people as possible. People intending to pay for someone to do a job of work know what they want done and can describe it.
There’s little available information about the company and the people who work there.

If you have any experiences with scammers, spammers or time-waster do let me know, by email.

December 1, 2018

Time-Wasters Update

An email claiming to be from Yahoo Account Security telling me that my email address is now restricted and I need to click the link to verify my account and have it re-instated. But the email is from mawda_uganda @hotmail.com so it’s a simple phishing scam trying to get my login details.

Napoleon says he is the Personnel Manager of a large International Company, which surprisingly has no name. He wants to offer me a work at home job paying $2,200 – $5,600. He doesn’t know my name and clearly bought a spam list to send these dumb messages to. I hope nobody replies.

“Doctoors Club” (yup that’s their spelling of Doctor) offers a 3 step Pancrease Jumpstart (there’s no such thing as a pancrease) which they say will destroy diabetes in days. Nope – just a typical scammers message looking for victims.

There is an appalling Marketing company called sendly.com and it’s is very busy at the moment sending out huge numbers of stupid messages. One of todays says “I started dating a few weeks ago. It’s all quite exciting. I would like to get in touch with you” etc. I’m not going to click their link just to see what rubbish it leads to.

A very short scam message from Donna Baker that just has the word SURPRISE as a link. No thanks – I can do without nasty surprises.

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March 16, 2017

Work at Home Data Entry Jobs

A strange email arrived from vogenesis @solrrplannt.bid titled ‘Typing Jobs – Highest Paid in LA’

Could someone really be trying to advertise typing jobs in a world where typewriters are only found in museums?

The email talks about how easy it is make Facebook posts and claims people are being paid up to $500 per day for such tasks while working from home.

The email quotes Jenny Lewis of the Home Trust Network as its expert on these work at home jobs.

But Jenny Lewis is just a seller of these kinds of ‘opportunities’ so its questionable whether she’s the person to trust.

The email also quotes various US government reports showing how some typists earn huge salaries.

To be realistic, there are some jobs keying in data of some kind – whether its to make Facebook posts or keying data into a database or writing tweets or articles etc.

But, by their nature most of these tasks are very dull and repetitive and don’t pay highly because there’s any number of temp agencies happy to provide people to do these tasks quickly and efficiently.

However, there is a huge demand for work at home jobs that pay reasonably and can be done at the person’s convenience. There’s far more demand than there are such jobs and that’s where scammers jump in to take advantage of people’s hopes.

Be very wary if you are looking for a work at home job as on average 59 out of 60 advertised online are scams.

See blog post https://fightback.ninja/test/work-from-home-scams/

If you have any experiences with scammers, spammers or time-waster do let me know, by email.

January 11, 2017

Work From Home Scams

There are large numbers of people who work at home as writers, consultants, Marketing, IT, sales, translators etc. but there is also a big demand for part time jobs that can be done at home without needing such specialised skills and knowledge.

These can include work such as article writing, cold calling, proof-reading, Internet research, customer service, data entry, social media and SEO, dog walking and thousands of other opportunities.

But, the problem is the spam messages that are so abundant offering amazing work at home opportunities.

Figures suggest that 95% of such emails offering work from home are scams.

Often there is little detail on what’s involved and no way to contact the ‘seller’ – just a signup process.

Think carefully before signing up and do try to check the truth of the ‘offer’ before signing up. You can usually check these things on the Internet – try searching on the name of the offer plus the word review or scam.

If there are contact details – then ask questions, get more details to help your decision. If they won’t provide more details then might be best to avoid it.

There is a lot of information available on the Internet – but always ask yourself why someone has posted this information as it may tell you how trustworthy it is.

One site that helps is www.workingmums.co.uk/home-working-jobs/ and of course the reputable recruitment websites have a lot of work at home opportunities.

It’s the spam messages that are the problem. There isn’t a guaranteed way to identify these scam messages, but they generally have the following characteristics

Little or no description of what the work actually is
A video clip of the ‘seller’ describing their wonderful lifestyle of Caribbean islands, fast cars and top hotels etc.
Something such as a time limit to get you to act before you have time to think.
Local based. i.e. the message is tailored to list the opportunities as being based somewhere close to where you live (this is easy to fake as most websites can now identify your location)
Incredible testimonials from people who were in a bad financial situation and now have the jet-set lifestyle thanks to this ‘opportunity’
No company name for you to check out – just a brand name. No company address etc.

Check as much as you can before signing up – once they have your card details you’re in their hands.

If you have any experiences with scammers, spammers or time-waster do let me know, by email.