Working from home, it sounds excellent doesn’t it? Since I’ve been on Twitter quite a bit it amazes me how many spammers and con artists are always scheming of ways to make offers sound too good to be true, hoping that I’d be one of the millions of trillions to be suckered into lining their pockets and this is where I’m thankful I never opened up a line of credit.
The latest incident happened to me around lunch today. I log on and see this interesting link from a twitter that I’ve never seen before show up in my time line. Curious, I click on the link.
“Receive $5- $10 dollars just for taking photographs. Smart phones okay, too.” the line states and all they want is your valid email address and you’ll be good to go as soon as you click on another button for more information in their verification email….
Uh, this is where they hook you.
Click on the link in their email and a new portal opens that routes you “PartnerswithPaul” dot com. Yep, it’s another money-making “work from home” internet scam. The only one getting their pockets lined is the ficticious “out-of-work” four mouths to feed over-their-head-in- loans single parent, “Paul”. If this scam isn’t bad enough, Google search “Partners with Tom” dot com and you get the same woe-is-me sob story but with a different first name.
I got so sick and tired of all these “make money from home” scams that I decided to blog about it and let other folks know that to date there’s still no magic “internet guru” that’s going to make you filthy stinking rich. If they ask for any money across the net or ask for your credit card information, be extremely cautious. They’re just out there to line their pockets and become an internet huckster for herbal vitamin supplements that are as empty as their “make money tomorrow” scams. If it were only that simple, and it brings to mind all those late night infomercials I used to see on TV years ago. Only nowadays they’ve taken the internet by storm and drained many people’s bank accounts and tapped into their credit cards with “automatic” renewal fees attached that it makes me wonder how they sleep at night knowing they’ve conned millions of strapped-for-cash folks out of their last dollar.
Then, again, I’m thankful that I go through extensive wading on the internet, and after five pages of endless reading, discover that a lot of these “internet gurus”, if not all of them, are con artists. The products they swear by that will make you rich, won’t. It will make them rich with more traffic and they’ll receive commissions from each mouse click, but that’s about it. So, if it’s too good to be true, then it probably is. Beware of sites asking for your valid email address, and if they become problematic, report them as spam and block them. And if you’re on Twitter and they’re still hounding you, block them.
The latest incident happened to me around lunch today. I log on and see this interesting link from a twitter that I’ve never seen before show up in my time line. Curious, I click on the link.
“Receive $5- $10 dollars just for taking photographs. Smart phones okay, too.” the line states and all they want is your valid email address and you’ll be good to go as soon as you click on another button for more information in their verification email….
Uh, this is where they hook you.
Click on the link in their email and a new portal opens that routes you “PartnerswithPaul” dot com. Yep, it’s another money-making “work from home” internet scam. The only one getting their pockets lined is the ficticious “out-of-work” four mouths to feed over-their-head-in- loans single parent, “Paul”. If this scam isn’t bad enough, Google search “Partners with Tom” dot com and you get the same woe-is-me sob story but with a different first name.
I got so sick and tired of all these “make money from home” scams that I decided to blog about it and let other folks know that to date there’s still no magic “internet guru” that’s going to make you filthy stinking rich. If they ask for any money across the net or ask for your credit card information, be extremely cautious. They’re just out there to line their pockets and become an internet huckster for herbal vitamin supplements that are as empty as their “make money tomorrow” scams. If it were only that simple, and it brings to mind all those late night infomercials I used to see on TV years ago. Only nowadays they’ve taken the internet by storm and drained many people’s bank accounts and tapped into their credit cards with “automatic” renewal fees attached that it makes me wonder how they sleep at night knowing they’ve conned millions of strapped-for-cash folks out of their last dollar.
Then, again, I’m thankful that I go through extensive wading on the internet, and after five pages of endless reading, discover that a lot of these “internet gurus”, if not all of them, are con artists. The products they swear by that will make you rich, won’t. It will make them rich with more traffic and they’ll receive commissions from each mouse click, but that’s about it. So, if it’s too good to be true, then it probably is. Beware of sites asking for your valid email address, and if they become problematic, report them as spam and block them. And if you’re on Twitter and they’re still hounding you, block them.