Wednesday 26 August 2009

The Work From Home Scams , Part 2

Everyvody has faced now and then ads that tell you that it is amazingly easy to make money over the internet. Work from home ads promising you $$$$$$$$$ money . DO NOT FALL for that ...
Lets see ... These websites try to convince you by mixing the truth with lies. The truth is that , YES there are on-line marketing systems that pay you to show advertisments through your website. This requires that you do have a website . In these systems you are getting paid for the clicks on the ads they provided for you or for the number of impressions these are shown.
In order to make the amount of money these "companies" promise you , you need to have thousands of visitors in your website and most important , clicking on your ads. This is difficult for starters and cannot be the work of 1 week to create so many viewers and therefore money .

The most common scam of this category is the "Google money making bla bla bla..." Websites promising you that by buying their e-books or applications you will create a fortune with google. Google is not paying you for automated clicks on ads and they are smart enough to recognise these kind of illegal applications. So avoid any kind of online marketing system that you have to pay for. Examples to AVOID given:


Google's official website marketing system is adsense and only by using that you can have a profit. https://www.google.com/adsense/ it is not a matter of additional software the amount of money you make but just your web visitors and clicks on your ads.

There is ofcourse lots of theory behind it regarding positioning of ads , colouring and customization over the content of your website but you dont have to pay for all that. Google provides you with written tutorials and videos on how to achieve maximum effect on your revenues.
Thank you very much for your time , feel free to ask me questions on on-line products
and how this system works rather than buy random stuff over the internet.
As always , have fun and ... DO NOT FALL FOR THAT

The Work From Home Scams , part 1.

I am going to divide this part to 2 or maybe 3 sections since lots of the online scams are referring to work from home. On this part I will analyse the "Personal Development opportunities" that numerous web sites are trying to sell to us. Companies that refer to "Personal Development" "Life Coaching" "Change Your Life" "Human Excellance University" and other catchy lines are only trying to do one thing. Make money for themselves and for a limited number of people. Companies like that are
"Liberty League International" http://www.libertyleague.com/
"Ex Navy Seals" http://www.exnavyseal.com/
"Life Path Unlimites" http://www.lifepathunlimited.com/
and numerous others are occupied with making money out of you. Their "sellers" need to create a website of their own inorder to share their experiences . In order to join their foundations you have to PAY a fee and then start selling products like :
CDs & DVDs with Personal development stories , instructions, change of life lessons.
Trips to ... energy conferences in .... exotic places !!! (Don't fall for that)
and fake opportunities in general.
These products might have some appeal to 50-70 year old people who are searching for something to spend time on and not to actual career hunters. You need to invest at least an amount of 2000Euros in order to join the companies actively and start making "profit" .
Lets explain the inevitable of the operations ...
If you accept to join them and pay the entrance fee , you become a part of a team with your leader to be the guy who introduced you. He is obviously making commision out of your money and also gets a share out of your own commisions. You only start making money when your own team, starts making sales themselves. The typical pyramid financial system that is always leading to huge crashes when it fails.
In my opinion these companies might not be 100% scam but it is a good thing if you avoid all that and keep your dignity as a person. Personal development is a personal thing and noone and nothing can lead you to be someone else. This is the reason why salesmen of these kinds of products fail.

  • DO NOT FALL BY THE AMOUNT OF PEOPLE TALKING TO YOU
  • DO NOT FALL BY THE ORGANIZATION THESE PEOPLE SEEM TO BE ABLE TO PROVIDE YOU
  • DO NOT FALL FOR THEIR CATCHY LINES & HYPOTHETICAL SUPPORT THEY PROVIDE
  • DO NOT FALL FOR THE IDEA THAT YOU WILL BE MORE SUCCESFULL BY FOLLOWING THEM OR THAT YOU WILL MAKE THE AMOUNTS OF MONEY THEY TELL YOU ...

ps. in order to join them , apart from paying the entrance fee you have to introduce to them 2 new salespeople ... these can be people really close to you that in case of failure you will be in debt to them .

BE SMART
BE INNOVATIVE
and the rest will come ....

Thank you for your time .

Newest Scam - Almost fell for that ...

When job hunting you probably upload your CV in major
online HR companies in order to be found and proposed a
job. That's what I did in www.totaljobs.co.uk and the same
happened to others from other HR websites . The scam starts
with an email which has a title like :

Employment Offer [TotalJobs]‏

It is not marked as spam or part of a multiple send so you
can say that it is personalized enough and real. And you
have the following message. Copy Pasted :

"

Romad Financial Services Pty. Ltd.
94 Woodhouse Grove, Box Hill North,
VIC, 3129, Australia


Hello,
my name is John Alison and I am Romad
Financial Services Pty. Ltd. Staff manager.
We have found and reviewed your CV at totaljobs.com
and decided to offer this job to you.
Our services
When buying-selling operations via the Internet are
concerned, the buyer and the seller don’t know each
other and are placed in different corners of the
world. Therefore, it is important both to the buyer
and the seller for their transaction to be made safely.
Payment Protection means receiving money, documents,
goods (it might be both the seller’s and the buyer’s)
concerning the transaction by a reliable, experienced,
impartial person - our Payment Protection agent.
The agent will hold all the money and documents until all
the terms of the deal are satisfied and only then
release them to the intended receiver. Please, visit our
web-site for more information.
(http://www.romadfinancial.com/)


Why we need Payment Protection agents
Having a Payment Protection agent in every country we can
quickly transfer funds inside a country without wasting
time on the international bank transfers, and continue
our rapid growth rather than overwhelming our own bank
account with inbound and outbound transactions leading
to severe hold times and possible service interruption.
It is time that is of significant importance to our
clients.


Career and Benefits
Your main task will be receiving money transactions to any
bank account you would like to use for the purposes of
this job; and then forwarding these transactions to the
next party of the Payment Protection process according
to our instructions. You will benefit from the commissions,
which are 5-7% of each transaction and depend on the
quantity of the completed transactions and the speed
of your work. Besides, you will be paid a basic salary
of 1500 GBP per month.


For your convenience there will be no paychecks, your
commission will remain in your account after every
successfully completed transaction. The money transfer
fee is not included in your commission, meaning that you
will deduct it from the received amount, not from your
commission. Also you receive 5-7% of the transaction amount.
Normally the amounts that we process vary from 2,000 GBP
to 10,000 GBP , but can go higher on special occasions.


Job details
As the financial activity in your area is not too high,
a Payment Protection agent will be processing approximately
1-2 transactions per week. Each transaction requires
approximately 4-5 hours of the agent work. Our manager
always calls the agent beforehand to provide all the
instructions. Therefore, with the due time management,
the agent is able to combine this job with other
activities (e.g. primary job or studies).


If you are ready to proceed, please provide your AVAILABLE
phone number to our hiring manager (Charles McAlister) at
hiring@romadfinancial.com

Please do not hesitate to contact us if you need more
information.

--
Sincerely yours,
John Alison,
Romad Financial Services Pty. Ltd.
visit us at http://www.romadfinancial.com/
"



I didn't get too excited to see that but instantly checked on the
information of the company.Checked the information on the link
they provided me and ..... Everything was appearing to be correct.
I even made a call to australia to check with the IRS for the dignity
and safety to acompany with them ... The IRS gave me the correct
information from the company that appears to be prestigous and
legal. The scam ...


"THE LINK THEY PROVIDE YOU IS NOT REAL AND SENDS
YOU TO AN EXACT REPLICA OF THE WEBSITE'S LAYOUT"


I actually was convinced that this was the same company
website and then responded positively to their "Interest"
And then I got an email from mr. . . McAlister .

"Thank you for showing your interest in our organization.

1) In order to find more information about the Payment
Protection Agent
job on our website, please visit the links below:
http://romadfinancial.com/aboutprot.php
http://romadfinancial.com/protstage.php

2) To join our team now, you have to confirm your intention
by filling &
signing the Agent Agreement.
You may download it here:
http://romadfinancial.com/PaymentProtectionAgentEU.pdf

3) If you agree with ALL conditions of the Agent Agreement,
please fill in
the registration form online at
http://romadfinancial.com/registration.php

4) Send us a scanned copy of your ID or DL.
NOTE: This is for the security and identification purposes.


Thank you for choosing Romad Financial Services Pty. Ltd.

--
Sincerely yours,
Charles McAlister
Romad Financial Services Pty. Ltd.
hiring@romadfinancial.com
Visit us at http://www.romadfinancial.com/ "

After that, they called me over the phone to get more
details about me and more information.

After a research I've done over the network these guys
actually use you & your bank account for either

money laundring and other illegal procedures. Avoid
contacting them and avoid talking to them .


Thank you for your time , I hope this will be helpful and
will make you avoid one more scammer.