Don’t Fall For The Data Entry Scam
When I first started looking for a way to supplement my income online I came across the biggest scam of all… The Data Entry Job
This so called job promised I was going to be making thousands of dollars every month working from the comfort of my home working less than 30 minutes per day… All I needed to do was to fill out forms from companies that were looking for people to work from home, yeah right. I should have know better but at the time I was so desperate for money that I believed every word they said.
At that point I was thinking I was going to be working for some sort of big company and make a lot of money so I went ahead and paid the $50 dollar fee in order to become a member and get access to the training materials, after I got access as it turns out there was no job or anything like it waiting for me. It was just simply a poorly design system that explained how to make money with affiliate marketing.
For those of you that don’t know what affiliate marketing is it’s just simply a method of promoting web businesses (merchants/advertisers) in which an affiliate (publisher) is rewarded for every visitor, subscriber, customer, and/or sale provided through his/her efforts.
So I would choose any company I wanted from a marketplace they had and I’ll have to promote their products in order to make the money. The problem is that you have to pay for online advertising and online advertising can be extremely expensive and there is no guarantee you’ll make any money from your advertising dollar, that’s how they got me.
They promise you things that their systems will never live up to.
Conclusion: There are great ways to make money online and systems that are proven but Data Entry Jobs that require some money up front are simply scams, a rule of thumb is that if it sounds too good to be true chances are it is.
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[…] On a previous post I talked about the nicer side of the “Data Entry Scams” and in that post I explained how these companies lured people into paying some sort fee in order to get access to a list of the so called employers looking to hire people for data entry positions. If you haven’t read that post you can read it by clicking here. […]
Comment by simon on 20 July 2008:
i paid the sum of $9.99 to FMD prossing and came to realise it is a scam program be worn!!!