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Aug
Posted in Scams by neo2012 |
Internet marketing is chock full of ways to make money online at little or no cost to you. There are hundreds of work at home programs that can earn you extra money while working from home.However, many of them are schemes and products that will only having you spending money instead of making any. They were designed to make the owner rich, and only waste your time and hard earned money. Avoid these work at home programs if you really want to grow your work at home business and earn pure profit on the Internet. Surveys
You may have heard about this work at home program. You may have even tried them before. Paid surveys are nothing but a tedious, time wasting way to make almost no money online. They will pay you almost nothing, if they pay you at all.
Why settle for peanuts when you can be earning $100 per sale with a high paying affiliate program? The only people that make money from paid surveys are the owners who are paid by the huge marketing research companies to handle the surveys you spend hours on for hardly any money.
I have tried many paid survey companies and most either dont pay or pay very little.
Lotto and Free lotto
Now you and I both know that no one actually wins at these lotto games. Dont even bother hoping for those nice winnings because it will never happen. These systems are designed to at most give you a little payoff just to keep you playing and spending.
You will end up spending way more money on lotto than you will ever make. For even less time and money you spend on lotto, you could have a solid and growing online business bringing you commissions again and again.
Contests and Instant games
Games are another big time and money waster. Again, just like lotto. If anyone was cashing in on these free games then the sponsor would go broke. They make money on ads they place around the games online, but just like paid surveys, the possible money you can earn makes this another big a waste of time.
And contests. Only one person wins each contest and it is highly unlikely to be you. The time you waste filling out these forms, even if you do it like I did with an auto form posted like Roboform (which is useful in affiliate marketing and other ways as well) you hardly ever win anything besides a lousy $10 gift certificate or runner up coupon.
Again, dont waste your time on these fake instant game or contest sites. You are much more likely to succeed working with a high paying affiliate program.
Casinos
Not only do online casinos waste your time by not winning you any money, you will most always end up losing money. This is not to mention how addicting and a problem casinos can be. Be careful with your money and do not fall for the get rich quick idea of online casinos.
If you do, you are only going to help the casino owner make money. After all, he knows how often the system will pay back the players and do you think your winnings are in his favor? Of course not, the casino owner is only out to line his own pockets with your hard earned cash.
The occasional $5 or $10 you win is not worth the hours of playing and cash burning you are doing in the process. Your time is MUCH better spend. Use your time and money wisely and dont throw your money away for free.
Besides, who has money to just give away? Invest your money and time in higher paying affiliate marketing programs and you will see the light. You will also see that affiliate programs are where the real money is being made and not in the 5, 10, and 15 dollar winnings in the previously mentioned and so called ways of making money online.
With affiliate programs, people are earning on a daily basis commissions upwards of $70, $100 and even $175 per sale working from home. You will see results much faster without having to depend on some system that was programmed to give you money when and if it ever decides to. Instead, become the master of your own financial future and build your own real work at home business.
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15
Apr
Posted in Scams by neo2012 |
Have you ever done a search on google for “scam” or “work from home” or a similar keyword? If you have, then you probably saw an ad or a search result for “Danny’s Scam Review”. This guy must be a real guru, or extreamly wealthy since the advertising alone must cost him a fortune. I looked over the “review” and it looks like another affiliate marketing program. Below is a section from a forum that you might find interesting…..When you google “scams”, a listing appears in the Sponsored Links section called “I was scammed 37 times”, linking to a page called Dannys-Scam-Review.com. On his site “Danny” tells readers of his experiences with various money-making online offers, and advises that “Out of 37 programs 35 were complete scams that just took my money. Only 2 of the programs actually worked. I am going to give you an honest review of the 2 programs that did work for me. He then lists the two programs that “did work” for him, ULTIMATEWEALTHPACKAGE.COM and FOREXENTERPRISE.COM. I did a little WHO-IS investigating and discovered that the domains Dannys-Scam-Review.com and ULTIMATEWEALTHPACKAGE.COM are both registered under the same company, DomainsByProxy.comRead the rest of the article here…
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15
Apr
Posted in Scams by neo2012 |
I found this article and want to pass it along here. These are the classic scams that have been around for years. Dont be fooled by all the HYPE in todays marketing. Learn to recognize a scam when you see it.Classic Work-at-Home Schemes
Several types of offers are classic work-at-home schemes.
Medical billing. Ads for pre-packaged businesses - known as billing centers - are in newspapers, on television and on the Internet. If you respond, you’ll get a sales pitch that may sound something like this: There’s “a crisis” in the health care system, due partly to the overwhelming task of processing paper claims. The solution is electronic claim processing. Because only a small percentage of claims are transmitted electronically, the market for billing centers is wide open.
The promoter also may tell you that many doctors who process claims electronically want to “outsource” or contract out their billing services to save money. Promoters will promise that you can earn a substantial income working full or part time, providing services like billing, accounts receivable, electronic insurance claim processing and practice management to doctors and dentists. They also may assure you that no experience is required, that they will provide clients eager to buy your services or that their qualified salespeople will find clients for you.
The reality: you will have to sell. These promoters rarely provide experienced sales staff or contacts within the medical community.
The promoter will follow up by sending you materials that typically include a brochure, application, sample diskettes, a contract (licensing agreement), disclosure document, and in some cases, testimonial letters, videocassettes and reference lists. For your investment of $2,000 to $8,000, a promoter will promise software, training and technical support. And the company will encourage you to call its references. Make sure you get many names from which to chose. If only one or two names are given, they may be “shills” - people hired to give favorable testimonials. It’s best to interview people in person, preferably where the business operates, to reduce your risk of being mislead by shills and also to get a better sense of how the business works.
Few consumers who purchase a medical billing business opportunity are able to find clients, start a business and generate revenues - let alone recover their investment and earn a substantial income. Competition in the medical billing market is fierce and revolves around a number of large and well-established firms.
Envelope stuffing. Promoters usually advertise that, for a “small” fee, they will tell you how to earn money stuffing envelopes at home. Later - when it’s too late - you find out that the promoter never had any employment to offer. Instead, for your fee, you’re likely to get a letter telling you to place the same “envelope-stuffing” ad in newspapers or magazines, or to send the ad to friends and relatives. The only way you’ll earn money is if people respond to your work-at-home ad.
Assembly or craft work. These programs often require you to invest hundreds of dollars in equipment or supplies. Or they require you to spend many hours producing goods for a company that has promised to buy them. For example, you might have to buy a sewing or sign-making machine from the company, or materials to make items like aprons, baby shoes or plastic signs. However, after you’ve purchased the supplies or equipment and performed the work, fraudulent operators don’t pay you. In fact, many consumers have had companies refuse to pay for their work because it didn’t meet “quality standards.”
Unfortunately, no work is ever “up to standard,” leaving workers with relatively expensive equipment and supplies - and no income. To sell their goods, these workers must find their own customers.
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