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Avoiding Work at Home Scams

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Avoiding Work at Home Scams

You’ve seen the ads everywhere online. How to get rich quick. How to make thousands working at home. Some are targeted to moms searching for a way to stay home with the kids while still contributing an income to the family. Some target people who are just fed up with their dead-end jobs. Either way, those ads promise your much money with little effort.

It’s not hard to imagine, right? It’s the internet, opportunity abounds. It’s limitless and with millions on the internet, there’s got to be enough people to spread the wealth around. Then again, you might do well to remember the old adage “If it looks too good to be true, it probably is”. Because in this case that’s exactly the situation.

If you are looking to make a living by working from home, there are a lot of opportunities out there, but beware of the scams. Just as there are plenty of opportunities out there to help you create income from home there are just as many people trying to separate you from your money.

Creating income takes work. And it takes a lot of hard work. Get rich quick schemes or make easy money from homes schemes will usually require you to buy some guy’s secret plan that he is passing on to you at a low-low price because he’s been so blessed that he feels like sharing this secret to riches with others. Truth of the matter is, he is really making his money by selling this idea to you.

Before you launch into any work at home opportunities join some online communities that support work at home entrepreneurs. Check with others you know and trust who have tried the opportunities. Ask for references. Find out what startup costs will be beyond the cost of the initial secret. And remember, time, hard work and consistency are the real keys to making your home-based business a success.


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Multi Level Marketing: Avoid the Scams

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Multi Level Marketing: Avoid the Scams

Multi level marketing (MLM) is a business strategy formed fifty years ago, and ever since, has become popular that until now certain business groups use to enhance their productivity and success rate. But this form of marketing strategy did not escape the critical eyes of the many observers, who questioned its validity and capability to really bring more people good amount of money. Despite these controversies, there are multi level marketing companies which have been above success rates and have been allowing other people to share the monetary benefits.

Perhaps, it is due to the fact that these successful companies did not stop discovering new ways to enhance their strategy business models instead of sticking to an outdated scheme. While there were stories of scams leading people to doubt multi level marketing, successful companies did see the need to update MLM strategies to tailor-fit the ever changing trend of the burgeoning technology. As a result, the applied network marketing plans gave them high financial rewards that other archaic marketing business concepts never made possible.

As expected, the success of multi level marketing was used by scam groups for their own benefits. Pyramid scams, which resembled the networking marketing business structure, started to come out to mislead people and rob them of their own money. Because of this, it is more important than ever that you know exactly what it involves when joining a multi level marketing team.

The most important thing to remember when joining is to distinguish legitimate multi level marketing groups from pyramid scams.

It is easy. Unlike legitimate multi level marketing groups, pyramid scams strategize by offering the same structure but without any product or company to endorse them. Illegal pyramid scams offer a business marketing set-up, which is meant to entirely fool the prospective clients until the poor victims invest a certain amount of money. After recruiting members and pocketing all their money, the company suddenly disappears and then moves on to hook victim prospects using another scam plan.

If you want to avoid them, there are ways to find those legitimate multi level marketing companies.

1. Do your assignment by making a background check to any company you are about to join. It should have a physical address, contact numbers (telephone numbers), and a website. Make sure it is legally listed and has been operating or in existence for a long time. Be sure to know who the legitimate owners of such company. Check backgrounds of the names referred to you as scam artists can easily use them although were actually not affiliated with the company.

2. A good sign that the company is legitimate is there are products existing. Even so, be sure that you checked these products and where do they come from. Find out if the company develops and owns the products and if they have them in abundant supply. Be aware that some scam artists may present products but in reality, do not have them in large supplies.

3. Another way to find out if the company is operating a legitimate multi level marketing business structures is how big the operation is going on. Large companies may operate their business through the whole nation, abroad, and even worldwide. Always be skeptical if the company is small. Though they do not necessarily be scams, it is often a good idea to always check on the operation to make sure you don’t end up with a fraud.

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Beware of a Domain Name Buying Scam

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A few minutes ago, I received an interesting email from one Dan at DomainGuardSystem.com concerning a domain name I previously owned, a dot org. In this email, Dan is attempting to get me to pay him $99 for a domain name that he does not own. In fact, it is available on GoDaddy.com for a mere $7.69 a year, when used with the discount code zine3.

This type of scam is being played for one purpose: to take the hard earned money of unsuspecting people. Paying a price for a domain name that someone owns and that you wish to buy is one thing. Paying a huge sum of money for a domain name that is not owned is nothing short of a scam.

At the present time, it appears that Dan is targeting only fot org domain name owners. I did a search and found another person who received the same type of email, nearly word for word, at http://boston.conman.org/.

Here is the copy of the email, with the domain name left out.

From: dan@domainguardsystem.com
To: teddybearteam@aol.com
Subject: xxxxxxx.com for the owner of xxxxxxx.org
Date: 12/10/2008 10:16:40 P.M. Central Standard Time

Hi,

The domain xxxxxxx.com has recently become available for us so we are offering it to you, because you are the owner of its .org version.

Domain Guard System is intended to assist our clients with their promotion on the Internet. We use many methods to increase the effectiveness of a client’s presence on the Web. Securing .com domains for anyone using another extension for their site is one of them.

There are several reasons why owning a .com is of great importance for any domain holder:
- It’s in the essense of Internet: .com is most popular and widely used, and the typical user usually supposes that he/she will find you at xxxxxxx.com. A lot of companies and organizations who use other extensions as primary (.net for Web services or private sites, .org for non-profit organizations etc.) are securing .coms not to lose the visitors who are seeking them there. With .com, you will be free to use both your .org and .com so you will only gain visitors.
- By owning the .com, you will be sure to stay #1 in your own name space.

If you are interested in this domain, please act quickly, as we soon intend to bring it to the auction where the acquisition cost will be higher than now.

Please use the link below to discover the current cost of the domain, read more about the advantages of owning a .com and get information on the details of the purchase and domain transfer procedure:

Secure xxxxxxx.com now!

Best regards,
Dan Johnson
Domain Guard System
mailto: dan@domainguardsystem.com

Given the fact that this person seems only interested in making money off of unsuspecting domain name owners, it’s a good idea to ignore emails from him and if you want the domain name, simply go to GoDaddy or your preferred domain name registrar and buy the domain name there. This guy is pocketing about $90 per sale if you buy from him. He doesn’t own what he is trying to sell, he has a price set that is nonsense, and this screams SCAM.




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