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By Cleo Stamatos

With the economy hurting, unemployment at an all time high and with the holidays at our feet, it is natural for moms and people everywhere to try to find ways to earn extra money.  The old saying “desperate times call for desperate measures” should mean cutting coupons and not buying your favorite shampoo – not being duped by a con artist.  When you are looking for ways to make extra money, you need to be extra careful to avoid employment and work from home scams.

When I worked for the National Consumers League, a victim of fraud told me, “I asked all the right questions.”  What this person – a very successful architect – didn’t count on was the fact that con artists are dishonest.  You can ask the right question, get the right answer – but still be in trouble. more

By Holly Reisem Hanna

Back in June I wrote about this work at home scam floating around, Easy Google Profit. The advertisements that were circulated for this scam, looked exactly like legitimate newspaper publications and blogs, telling the story of some fictitious person who recently lost their job and was now working from home with a system called Easy Google Profits. The articles explained how these people were now able to make a handsome income every month just by posting links on Google.

After months of this work at home scam being circulated around and thousands of people being taken advantage of, Google finally took legal action against Pacific Web Works for using the company’s name and logo to promote fraudulent work at home opportunities.

On Google’s Official Blog they said, “Even as we’re taking legal action to try to cut these sites off at the source, we’re still working constantly to remove scammy URLs from our index, and we’ll permanently disable AdWords accounts that provide a poor or harmful user experience, whether or not they use Google’s trademarks illegally. We can solve only part of the problem — the rest is up to you. Just as you should be careful about giving out financial information in the real world, you should be skeptical and review any offers online before sending any information, and always be on guard when presented with an offer that seems too good to be true”. more

Yesterday I received an email from a friend of mine asking me if I read this article and if knew Jennifer Pallin of Austin? She then asked, “Have you checked out the Google Home Starter Kit?  Isn’t this just another MLM”? I immediately checked out the link that she included, and right away I knew that we were dealing with another work at home scam!

Just like the Easy Google Profit Scam, the article featuring Jennifer Pallin and the Google Home Starter Kit looks authentic like it comes from a reputable newspaper. The story explains how local mom, Jennifer Pallin lost her job managing the local hardware store and how she is now able to work at home and make $87.00 an hour with a trusted name like Google. more

With Twitter being one of the hottest and fastest growing social networks on the web, it’s no wonder why it is now being targeted by get-rich-quick, work-at-home schemes. On July 1, 2009 the Better Business Bureau issued a warning against Twitter money making schemes.

One of the questionable companies mentioned by the Better Business Bureau was Easy Tweet Profits. According to Easy Tweet Profits you can make $250 – $873 per day at home with Twitter. Just like the Easy Google Profit Scam, it claims it has been seen on and trusted by, CNBC, AOL, USA Today, ABC, CNN and Yahoo, yet it doesn’t supply links to the “as seen on” segments. more

Yesterday I was on Alexa.com looking at their “Hot URLs” according to the Alexa tool bar, when I came across an article titled, “Jobs: Is Working Online At Home The Next Gold Rush?” Of course this caught my attention with my niche being work at home; I immediately clicked on the link and read the article.

The article looked authentic like it came from the Los Angeles Tribune News, which I assumed was a major publication in California. I read the amazing story of Mary Steadman, who recently lost her job as an account representative and started working from home with a system called Easy Google Profits. The article explained how she was able to make $5,500.00 a month with a trusted name like Google.

Wanting to know more I clicked on the link to Easy Google Profit where you are brought to a landing page boasting “As seen & trusted on Google, CNBC, USA Today, ABC, CNN and Yahoo”.  The page claims that there is a limited supply so you need to give them your name, phone number and email address now. more

When I was in college I worked part-time waiting tables, even though I made good money, I still had to pinch pennies to make ends meet. So you can imagine my excitement when I found an ad placed on my algebra class’s bulletin board, stating “Make Great Money Stuffing Envelopes, $2.00 per Envelope”!

I was so excited, I started calculating how many envelopes I could stuff in between classes and how much money I could make per week; life was going to be so much easier! I sent $12.00 off for the information pertaining to the envelope stuffing gig, and impatiently waited for the information to come.

Finally after a couple of weeks it arrived, the information that was going to solve my financial worries. I read the letter and it said, to make money stuffing envelopes, place the same ad you replied to in magazines, newspaper ads and on bulletin boards. You will then make money by people replying to the ad, and in return you will send them the same info. What a bummer! Luckily I only lost $12.00.

Today you still see envelope stuffing ads on the internet, “Make $1500 a Week Stuffing Envelopes”, only now they charge $20 – $50 for the same bogus information. In Tory Johnson’s book, “Will Work from Home”, she tests the envelope stuffing scam with a few different companies, none of them panned out. “Recruiting people to stuff envelopes is the oldest work-from-home gimmick that fools people every day. Don’t be one of them”.

For April’s Book Review, I will be discussing Tory Johnson’s, “Will Work from Home”. Feel free to read along, it has a lot of great information for those to want to work from home or become self employed!