I’ve Tried That - We lose money so you don’t have to!

Lord! You should NEVER pay for ANY job! If they ask for ANY fee they are a scam! ONLY Home Business’s ask for fees!

I’m not entirely sure how you found the site Kirk, but I suggest (if you haven’t already) checking out my other site SaveAndMake.com for real work at home jobs. It’s updated daily.

Julia, we’ll take a closer look at mypowermall.com in the near future. Meanwhile, I’m interested in your experience and might contact you for more details for a coming post.

Woo-hoo! You have made my day, Lilia! I’m glad you found us. A good site to check while looking for legitimate at-home jobs is dailytelecommuter.com. Every job is screened and checked for legitimacy before it’s posted.

We aim to please, Mike. Good luck with the pins. Do you set off metal detectors at the airport?

Thanks for the note, Deb. 3 people so far have been “saved” from this particular scam by this post. I feel that I could die happy now. Not that I’m planning on dieing, but I’m just sayin’.

Thanks, Gilli! I’m thrilled this post was helpful. I guess I’ll just go ahead and not die, after all! I wouldn’t call dog grooming inane, though. Do you have a scanner and some photoshop ability? I have a good home business idea for you, and I’ll give you the idea for free.

Thank you so much for the heads up! There are so many people looking for sincere work from home businesses and this site is a great resource for those looking to weed out the scams so as to not lose money. No one wants to lose money especially families with kids and I’m a mom that really can’t afford a scam. Thanks again!

Hi Darcy,
I’m glad it was helpful for you. Have you discovered Daily Telecommuter yet? Some guy posts about 10 screened, legitimate work-at-home jobs every day. I’ve made a good part time income from jobs I found there. Keep us posted.

I’ve been checking out work at home sites, trying to earn some extra money and not getting scammed. What I’ve seen so far is scams, after checking out your site, thank you!

Joe

I have quite a lot of experience using photoshop, and yes, I have a scanner, so any tips would be great!
Thanks

Glad to hear you didn’t flush your cash, Eric. What types of work do you do? Tell me a little about your background and skills and I’ll help you look.

Thanks, Matt! And I’m popping open a cold one right now in honor of your saved $50. You could buy 1 and a half Entertainment books for that price and save even more money. In fact, it could leverage that $50 into $hundreds, realistically.

As soon as we find a subscription-based program that really helps you make money, we’ll put the word out.

Glad to be of help, Kelly. Stick around; we’ll share everything we know about making money online (and not getting scammed in the process).

Thanks for speaking up, Pam. For legitimate work-from-home jobs, you can’t beat The Daily Telecommuter. Some guy reads job ads every day and posts only the real ones. 15+ jobs per day! Good luck.

Joe,

I have learned from past experiences to research any quick get rich opportunity. This was no exception. My wife was so excited when she told me about the web site.
When googling the company I found your blog.
Thanks for the heads up! I will keep coming back to this web site for more information on home business opportunities. Thanks again.

Hi Joe,
Did you know there is even a yahoo group attempting to bring people into this? I got an emaila, “join the Data_Entry_Business group!” It states right in the invitation, “Would you like to earn an extra $200 every day?, for just 45 minutes work?” and includes a link to an affiliate’s website.

Since I use google adwords in marketing and help people find or be more effective in their network marketing, direct sales or affiliate marketing businesses, this smelt “scam” to me.

Thanks for your blog giving the details. If I have anyone considering this, I can refer them to your blog.

Wendy Mills
Marketing Consultant & Coach
http://www.ahomebusinessworks.com

((CORRECTION))
I deeply appreciate what you are doing here! I received the “dataentrybusiness.com” offer through email and it was affiliated with YAHOO.groups which made me curious enough to look at their website. One of the truest statements ever is “If it’s to good to be true…. it probably is”, and this offer is no exception. Thank you so much for making the truth available. I’m glad I found your site.
Thanks,
Jesse

Hi Joe,

Actually anyone can create a members group with yahoo for free, but they are not supposed to spam people to join. I imagine if Yahoo gets complaints, they may shut the group down.

Wendy Mills

thanks for the heads up. I’ve been a victim of several scams in the past. it’s good to know that you’re here to prevent people from falling into the trap. It’s sad people want to make extra cash from home and just about every cite is a fraud. Again thanks for the warning

Sharlin, Vanessa:
Thanks for letting us know. I’m glad you found the site helpful.

Helen:
That’s the $34,000 question, isn’t it? Believe me, as soon as we find a legitimate home business, we’ll make a lot of noise about it. I can tell you how to avoid the scams, though. Read “How to Spot the Ebook Presell Page.” Even though it’s about ebooks, the principles apply to every scam page we’ve seen. And read “Web Sites to Avoid” to learn more about the warning signs.

Thanks cameron. I thought I caught every link in the comments but I guess I missed some.

Joe, thanks I saved me $50, Question, I was debating of joining between DataEntryBusiness or My-Data-Team, they seem to be the same concept. Now that DataEntryBusiness is out, do you have any comment for My-Data-Team, email me please
Regards
Earl

How to Turn $5 into $15,000 in 30 Days with PayPal!

I received an email from this guy. John email id: johnrudgo@yahoo.com . Then I discussed with a friend and he just tried it. To my surprise he said it really works But he got only $15 instead of $15,000. He had invested $5. I did a research and found thousands of such posts.I think this is illegal. Can you do something about it. Please comment.

My sister is joining webcolleagues and I told her to let me check it out, but I have found nothing about this site everywhere I have looked. Anyone heard anything about this webcolleagues.com I think that this site is wonderful

Wow, excellent questions, Julia. Their response is a perfect example of what they learn in Scam 101: How to Answer All the Questions Except the Ones They Actually Ask. They didn’t answer Richard Williams’s question, either. And he was really bummed about that, let me tell you!

Thanks for sharing, Claudette. I’ve front paged your story.

Like some people, I was about to sign up and pay to join that site, so I decide to look for complaint about that website, and I found you, one word, thank you. Have you ever try http://www.ippomails.net, because I never have been paid. I have spent $495 to become a platinium member… and at the end, nothing after for almost a year. Do you have list of true home base business ?

Mickael: I would love to hear about the $495 you spent with ippomails.net. And no, I don’t know anything about them.

Steve published a list of apparently genuine employers here. Be warned, though, we haven’t tried any of them. If they ask you for money instead of a resume, come back and let us know.

Joe, I want to thank you so much for saving me $50! I’m unemployed so I don’t have much and I found dataentrybusiness.com through google and was serious about joining because it said to be “The Top Pick of 2007″. It’s a good thing I came here and read about it! Once again, thank you! I also want to warn everybody that if you see an ad in the local newspaper saying “Homeworkers needed. Make $1,500 a week stuffing envelopes or assembling jewellery”, its a scam. They charge you $49.95 and a month later you receive a “Work At Home Directory” with 80% of the addresses in the US that doesn’t exist! I’ve been scamed. I’ve learned my lesson now. Always look up before I invest. I have one question though, I went to the site “Canadian Homeworker Review” http://www.topjobreview.com and entered my info and they mailed me info for a directory for companies in Canada which would cost me $69.95. ($29.95 if I registered by Oct Is this a scam too?

Joe…thanks for “paying it forward” with your knowledge on several online scams. I received 3 emails which were in my SPAMbox all about this dataentrybusiness.com site. I read it twice, clicked on the order now link, went back and decided to do a search on this “company” and found your review. I’ve heard that companies won’t charge you a fee if they want you to work for them so the red light went off again (survey sites suck too!) so I didn’t bite. I’ll be saving this site for future info, legit info on where I can make a few extra bucks short of selling my soul! Take care!

Joe,

I am so ashamed of myself for not doing some research before I sign up. I was excited to try and because I was in a hurry to go to sleep for work after I signed up it took me to create my membership and username and password, there was no website to display, I checked my internet and other sites to see if this was just my computer and came to find out that this was no joke. I had no way to contact them after nemerous of email to them with no respond and finally went to sleep, here I am the very next still determined to see if I can still get on and no return email and no way to sign in. Big problem, now I regret not listening to my cut feeling not to pay to make money. This was a learning experience for me.

Hi Lani, there is hope yet; I have finally gotten a refund of my $49.95. from Dataentrybusiness. Actually it took some doing: I found this website called eesellerate.net which is what was printed on my c/card account as having been creditted to from my accout and i checked it out online and found that all i had to do was punch in my emailaddress that i used to register with dataentrybusness and Essellerate would email me the account no. and the item no, of the registration transaction that i paid for. I immediately used that info i got from Essellerate and emailed dataentry business requesting my refund, and they immediately refunded my 49.95. I am yet to receive a refud from yahoosearch marketing. I called them today and was promised that i would be refunded all moneys they deducted from my account minus their registration fees of 30.00. here is a copy of the letter they sent to me today after i called them. Here is thier number you may want to call for your refund: 8185245700: when you call please have your yahoo search user name and account number ready to quote to them

Oct 2 2007 09:44 PT

Dear Claudette,

Thank you for taking time with me on the phone today about your refund
request. As of this email I have submitted an expedited request for
your $60.00 refund back to the PayPal account on file. Typically it does
take 2-3 business days for that transaction to be completed. We
appreciate your patience and apologize for any inconvenience this may have
caused.

Sincerely,

Luis Velez
Customer Solutions
Yahoo! Search Marketing

They’re after me!! HULP!!! Thanks for the eye opener. It’s so true = ” If it’s sounds too good to be true, then it probably is, Buyer BEWARE and Look B4 ya leap and If in doubt, do nothing.” OK already enuf quips. I am still on the hunt for a REAL work at home using my PC. = ALLAN

Thanks for the info on dataentrybusiness.com. I linked to it from an email (stupid, but I need some sort of home business) and was checking it out. The website had a timer which ran to zero, after which I could not open the website again.

I checked altavista for someone who knew about the business and found you. I am glad I did.

I have tried some survey companies but only made £6 up to now. Most companies only offered free entry into prize draws. I will try your suggested companies.

Thanks again. I will join your community.

I don’t shop on-line either but this all sounds pretty good to me. I bought a gift card from K-mart. There was no shipping or postage charge, it is just face value. So I’ll go to K-mart and use it like cash. I think Macy’s also has a face value gift card that works the same way. If I go to K-mart instead of Target or Wal-mart I can spend $100/month without spending extra money. I may be wrong, but it looks like if you are careful, and you sign up lots of people, it can work. Good luck! Fran

another one saved well done

Great article! My inbox was hit by a tempting email from one of these scammers. I had to do some googling myself to see what was up with this company which lead me to your blog. I also did the standard BBB lookup where I saw they received an ‘F’ for being such a shady company. Good work.

thanks joe

u saved me too… god bless u..
even i was goin to be the next victim for the data entry jobs site..
i tell you what i m desperately looking fo ra reliable site to work from home out of circumstances occured.
can u please help to find a real genuine one..?
tht will be great !
thanks again… & keep sharing

Thanks Joe…..i nearly falls into the trap. Thanks you. Appreciated it.

Here’s another $50 you’ve saved. Many thanks Joe.

this is a response to Lethabo Mojapelo: it has only been 2 days since Yahoo Search Marketing has finally refunded me. I kept emailing them regularly until they probably realized that i am serious. There is hope still. first of all you need to get their telephone nos. and call them. have your account info, and user name for Yahoo search marketing ready when you call. if you want i can send you their tel. nos. I hve called so frequently that they are practically on first name basis with me. LOl. dont give up hope, they do refund but you must be patient and relentless.

Thanks for your info – you’ve saved me money and frustration (as well). The email sounded pretty good and, as I do surveys (for hardly any incentives, just for interest)I was tempted…
But, thanks for the warning : the email really was SPAM as my security program was telling me!

A. Winter

i have been caught up in this scam. is there anywhere thats someone knows of that will bing me back to the original site that reckons it will give refunds????
pls email me at princess_manda@hotmail.com

Another victim here. I bought the scam like many people do out of the need to earn a quick income from home. I had back surgey in September and knew I would be laid up for 3-6 months with no income. Hastily I bought their bogus program without researching it a few months ago. I tried many times to comprehend their literature and all that I could understand was that I needed to buy this, and set up that, and join this, and register for that, etc…… The one thing I completely understood was that I had been scammed. Sorry to all others who have been also been scammed, and congratulations to the ones who researched before they lost their hard earned money. I sure could use the $49.95 to buy some pain medication for the pain on my backside I’ve developed from kicking myself. Thank you Joe for informing people.

Hi Joe,

thank you so much for this information – i too had been tempted by dataentry,com after having them recommended by top-paying-online-jobs.com – who claim to have done all the research and eliminated the scammers!! i am now going to completely give up my search for paid on line work at home ( i am on maternity leave and wanted to earn to help our family). i have already checked out keystrokes for cash and several others that come recommended as NOT being scams – but all to no avail – they all turn out to be scams as discovered by wonderful people like you. so thanks so much – however i am sad that there is no genuine opportunity for me to work from home like this. if you do find any genuine jobs please please let me know!!! i really need to find a way to earn from home.

thanks again,
Astrid ( Melbourne Australia)

A month ago I paid $49.95 for the Dataentrybusiness.com program, I paid through Plimus. It was advertised that within 2 business days I will be contacted. I have a good paying job but my commute is 3 hours every day so I decided to find another way to get an income from home. It is almost two weeks I have not heard or get any contact from either Plimus or DataEntry. I will call my credit card company to dispute the purchase and reimburse my money. It might have worked for others, but I did not get anything.

I signed up for dataentrybusiness.com.
I tried to contact them for a refund and the
e-mail address can’t be found and of course there’s no phone number. What can I do?

Thank You,
Bev

this message is for Debbie Butt. I was scammed but got my refund within 1 week of my request. I searched their website for a ‘contact’ email address. following my request for a refund, they sent me these advertisements about how I can invest BLa BLah Blah …. which I suspect are automatic responses. An email then followed asking me to send them the item product number which i knew not. HOwever, I used the website address that showed up on my credit card statement: essellerate.com, got that number and emailed it to data entrybusiness. they then promptly refunded me. for more infor – i had indicated this in an earlier discussion at the top of this page.

Hi Joe,

I appreciate your idea of helping people not to get into scam.
I signed up for dataentrybusiness.com.And found that it is scam.
Is there any way that I can get my money back.
Do you have any contact # or Email ID or mailing Address.
And wanted to know if they charge my credit card again and again.If that is the case how do I stop that.While signup process I gave my ITIN #. Will there be any problem in that.

Waiting for your help.
Thanks
Uma

You just saved me $50. I should know better, but like you I am somehow convinced that there MUST be a way to make real money from home with my computer. Thank you for this review. You are helping more people than you could possibly know.

how do I get a refund from dataentrybusiness.com?

Thank You,
Beverly

Cheers mate for your information on that site , was just about to pay them , glad I did not .

Cheers .

Levi

Good thing I decided to investigate a bit..
Thanx for the info.
I feel like an idiot for even considering sending the $ to data entry business.com
I knew it sounded too good to be true.
I guess I will check out dailytelecommuter.com now. I’m a college student and really need to find something legit.
Thanx again.

i guess i’m not that lucky and become one of thousands of people who got scammed. i’m a mom trying to find more money without having to leave my 1 year old son. i just become a member of a similar site and paid 49.99 US$ fee. it’s so similar with dataentrybusiness.com. after reading your article,joe,i know that they’re just the same, they tell u to to post ads to make money and giving u e-books that hardly to understand what exactly they’re talking about even u opened your eyes as wide as u could and re-read it thousands of time. They’re just affiliate programmes. Don’t get fooled like me everyone, don’t join this either..Thanks for your work joe, i wish i had gotten here earlier…

Joe, thank you very much for your hard work to expose Dataentrybusiness.com! I was searching the web for information on those who’ve joined the program in order to see what they had to say. I found the link to your board and eagerly read every word.

THANK YOU FOR SAVING ME $50 BUCKS!!!!! I usually am pretty savy at spotting a scam, but was almost sucked in to this “company” by some of the positive comments I saw at other links on Google. However, after reading your research and seeing the truth laid out I breathed a sigh of relief that I didn’t push the “Order Now” button!

Thank you for your dedication to spreading the word about scams. Bless you!

Thanks for the tip-off about dataentrybusiness.com – saved me $US 50!

Hi, i ordered the web colleagues program today however, its not as simple as i thought it would be. Do you happen to know if its genuine at all? And how exactly it works.

Thanks for the info. Anybody tried about the theonlinebusiness.com

THANK YOU! I have been looking for other LEGITIMATE work from home programs for myself and friends I know that are in bad financial situations and this was one of the businesses that I received an email from. . . boy am I glad I “Googled” for more infoon this company along with the claims of the news names at the top. Thankfully, your link came up and I was able to make a TRULY INFORMED DECISION!!!

Thanks & Have a great New Year!!!

Thanks joe. Its highly appreciated your idea of helping people not to get into data entry scams. like dataentrybusiness.com i am receiving number of emails from different work from home offers. To name a few mydatateam, workfromhome etc.would u please make a review on mydatateam.com also so that people will come to know whether it is legitimate or not. why because the comapny portrays it has been certified as web assured, scam X certified and paypal business certified.

thanks and new year wishes

Please tell me how I can get a refund from Data Entry Business.com.

Thank You,

Bev Butt

I’ve just finished reading through their website advertising. I agree with a lot of the posts here, simply put, if THEY charge YOU a setup fee to work then generally its some form of scam, or at least walking a very thin line. I have to say I’ve never seen one of these sites using a ‘timer’ to mount pressure on the reader to sign up. I guess its a way of stopping someone doing any due diligence like reading through this site here as they might feel they have to join or they’ll lose the discount or free gifts…but then we can just add this to the list of things to look out for..the more of these ‘tricks’ get used the easier it is to spot a scam without having to waste time reading the webpage.

All i have to say THANKS for being so helpfull. I was about to join them. But now I do not think so . Thanks a lot man.

Thanks for the info. That job sounded too good to be true. First thing that caught my eye into suspicion was that the bonus offers “never expired” and second was that if the company have been solid for 5 years why would they be accepting up to 8,000 members if by this time they could’ve had up to 100,000,000x that amount speaking in terms of MLM. Their money back guarantee got me thinking this could be a legit job but the above mentioned facts were just too alarming to ignore and I had to do some research that lead me here. Once again, thank you!

I am really shocked i researched this company and found a ton of legit information that make them for real. Although, during my research I have also found 2 phishing websites related to http://www.dataentrybusiness.com These websites are (www.data-entry-business.com and http://www.dataentrrybusiness.com notice the difference of the 2 compairing the original website look for yourself and notice in the complete your order the transaction page is completely different no sign of security symbols or privacy approval links that you would normally find on legitimate websites the original http://www.dataentrybusiness.com website does have those symbols. I would like to say that with this opportunity you can make the extra income as advertised. What they don’t tell you is how, or that you have to buy this, or advertise this, or sale this, in order to make that income.
Joe have you purchased from the original website and tested them out and also any one else who has attempted this site maybe been scammed by the phishing websites as indicated above. Please let me know and also I am ready to make things happen so joe if you would like to help me. I would greatly appreciate it. Those work at home business need to be true to their word and not so much into just in it for the money for them selves.. Joe also if you have any ideas you would like to discuss with me. We can be partners in creating a work at home business for people who want the real thing. If any one want to reply to my message please do

Hi,
thanks for the tip Joe!

cheers,
James

Hey there steve can’t we share joe He has an opportuniest mind and it seems so do you so lets all be partners. If not at least I tried I just want to be able to provide for everyone else out there. Unless your already doing that than show me the way

OMG i payed for that bullshit dataentrybusiness.com
and your so right they got me nasty i eventually got my money back after i said i was gonna sue because there denying my money when i still was in the refund period.

DONT DO IT DONT PAY FOR ONLINE JOBS THERE ALL SCAMS!!!!!!

Okay, I read through most of the previous post and most identify with Lilia back in July 12, 07. I have gone through so so many websites promises legitimate work at home. I have spent an unspeakable amount of money in programs that claim to be the opportunity that you’ve been searching for to start earning the money you desire to do this and do that. I have cried and prayed many night and days about my desire to find “the” thing that will allow me to “go back to work” so to speak while being able to stay at home with my now two year old daughter. I even tried a paper route, which shocked everyone. I came from a coporate background and have since 2005 been at home with my daughter initially do to her fragile state (prematurely delievered).

I am determined that I “WILL” find the avenue to stay at home while still maintaining some since of Persona and workability. I don’t want to just “be at home with her”. I want to earn income as I did while I worked in the corporate world. I did fall pray to the dataentrybusiness.com hype and did attempt to obtain a refund all within a timely manner; to no avail. Just today I spend $197.00 on a program call processathome.com. Something about processing rebates. After getting into one of the training modules I realized it is not what I thought I would be doing. I am having second thoughts about it. I normally check the businesses on http://www.bbb.org but I am so desperate I didn’t even take the time to do that. I think I want my money back from this site already. Please help me.

Hi, I got sucked into a work at home site. Chris Campbell with a funnel system. I Had only a little money enough to pay the guaranteed money back 50 bucks not the later to find 2995.00 needed to buy in. how do I get my refund back? Thanks Buzz

Yep – I went for dataentrybusiness.com (DEB) and realised the scam soon after logging in.

I requested my refund – as guaranteed on their now defunct website – three times and all I got was my “read receipts” (which I always attach to my emails to companies) were coming back ‘deleted – not read’.

****** SO FOR ALL THAT WANT YOUR MONEY BACK – DO THIS (I GOT IT WITHIN 24 HOURS) ******.

If you havent already set up a paypal account – do so. That is how I paid for the DEB scammers membership (as Paypal is secure and you are insured)- but it doesnt matter how you paid.

You send a REQUEST FOR PAYMENT to : paypal@esellerate.net (as that was DEB paypal email account) the amount you want refunded and what I did was put in the ‘note’ box – THIRD AND FINAL WARNING. Failure to refund amount immediately will result a formal complaint to Consumer Affairs and Paypal.

Obviously Paypal knows these scammers – because I couldnt believe how fast my refund came through (I lodged it late last night and had it in my paypal account this morning) To those who dont have Paypal – you then transfer the money from your paypal account to your bank account.

HOPE THIS HELPS!
Mich (Australia)

This is a great site, and you do a terrific job of unmasking these scams for what they really are and spelling out what’s really going on in black and white. In just a couple of sentences, you described exactly what these “data entry” programs actually are, while the scammers who sell them write paragraphs and paragraphs describing what they aren’t at all.

I actually came across your site while checking up on another company. When I first read through their site, I was nearly sucked in. Then I decided to explore some of the other sites that also offered “data entry” work at home. Not because I suspected it was a scam, but because I wanted to see what other options were out there. The red flags went up, though, when nearly every site I went to sounded the same as the one I looked at. The wording on the pages, the claims made, the assurances offered… it all sounded like the same company had put up multiple websites under different names. Even the pop-up windows with the 50% off coupon that expires at 11:59 PM tonight… every site had this. Or the regular $99 price being slashed to $49 for just a short time. So what initially sounded like a great opportunity on the first site I went to, started screaming “SCAM!” when I encountered the exact same thing on other sites. Every site seemed to have been created using the same template and following the same blueprint; every site made the same sales pitch in the same way.

Data entry? I don’t think so. What these companies offer has nothing to do with what most people think of when they think of data entry. This is affiliate marketing, plain and simple. And for those people who understand what this is and want to try their luck at it, that’s fine. But telling people who are looking for actual data entry jobs that this is for them is deceptive and just plain cruel. Someone who actually wants to try affiliate marketing might be able to be successful at it, knowing what’s involved and what the risks are. But someone looking for data entry won’t succeed at it, especially since they don’t even know the true nature of what they’re doing and can’t appreciate what’s actually involved.

The bottom line is, the companies that are supposedly providing you with data entry work for which they’ll pay you are doing nothing more than tricking you into doing their advertising for them and tricking you into paying for that advertising. They write their little ads, and then instead of submitting them to Google and paying Google to run them, they get YOU to submit them to Google and pay Google to run them. And all under the guise of “data entry” work! Then they sit back and reap the profits from any products sold without spending a dime on advertising.

Imagine if the entire marketplace worked like this. Imagine if no company paid to advertise its products or services, but enlisted some suckers to pay for it instead by misleading them about the true nature of what they’ve been enlisted to do. And the only reward the poor suckers get is a small commission for every sale made. And you thought slave labor only happened in sweat shops, or in third world countries.

What really gets me is, if they were honest and up-front about what they’re actually selling you, and if they were teaching you how to use Google to advertise and market your OWN products or services to make your OWN business successful, they might actually do something legitimate and helpful. But instead, they are teaching you to make someone ELSE’S business successful and conning you into not realizing that. “We’ll hook you up with thousands of companies ready to employ you and who won’t turn you down” is really “We’ll hand you over to companies ready to use you for their own gain and who won’t turn down the chance to do so.”

Open your eyes, people. The only ones benefiting from these so-called “data entry” jobs at home are: 1) the people selling the programs; and 2) the companies they “hook you up with” who simply take advantage of you while pretending to employ you. The system they’ve created certainly works, for THEM. YOU get caught in between them, and get screwed from both sides.

One thing I forgot to mention when discussing how all of the sites followed the same template was the testimonials. On two different sites belonging to two supposedly different companies, the same exact text appeared in the testimonials. WORD FOR WORD. Only the photos, names, and locations of the so-called “satisfied customers” were different. What they said on one site was repeated verbatim on the other. The testimonials were even in the same order on both sites!

As soon as I saw this, that was it. There was no way this couldn’t be a scam. And I couldn’t believe how lazy and unoriginal the scam was. Worse than the 50% coupon shtick. With the coupon, you might convince yourself that a site is simply copying another site’s tactic in order to be competitive. But exact same testimonials from different people? Don’t they realize that someone looking around the web for a data entry job is going to visit various sites and sooner or later encounter this? Or do they really think that once you visit their site, you’ll swallow their pitch and sign up on the spot and not visit any other sites?

I’ll check my browser history and see if I can bring them up. They should still be there.

Something else I wanted to talk about are the so-called “review” sites which claim to steer you toward companies that are legit, a bunch of which I explored last night. They come right out and say that most of the work-at-home opportunities are scams, and then they claim they’ve done research and found the scant few that are not. And they’re willing to steer you in the right direction because of the goodness of their hearts.

This is nothing but a very clever and deceptive tactic which is in reality an extension of the original scam. These folks know that some people are wise enough to think, to analyze, to investigate, and that these people will figure it out on their own that the so-called job opportunity is a scam. The scammers can’t afford to let such people figure it out. They can’t afford to let people confirm their doubts on their own, because once the people do, that’s it, they’re gone. So they step in and short circuit this by admitting there are many scams, and confirm the people’s suspicion FOR them. They count on the people thinking, “Aha! I KNEW they were scams! I suspected it, and this guy has confirmed it! He’s fighting for truth, he’s trying to save me from falling for the scams. So if he recommends a site, he must be telling me the truth.” The scammer knows that once he’s got you thinking he’s on your side by confirming what you already suspected and rescuing you, he’ll have your trust. And once he has your trust, he can scam you you to his heart’s content. Saving you from falling into the hole in front of you, he can steer you right into the hole next to you.

These review sites are all over the place. One guy proclaimed he could prove he wasn’t a scammer because he wasn’t asking for money. He was steering you to the “legit” opportunities and asking nothing in return. Why would he lie, if there’s nothing in it for him? There’s no reason to lie if there’s no incentive, right? So he must be telling the truth. That makes sense, doesn’t it? WRONG. Asking for money is not the only component of a scam. When I read this guy’s assurance that he was on the level because he wasn’t asking for money, I immediately thought, “Yeah, but how do I know you’re not getting money from scammers you’re steering victims to? You can refrain from asking ME for money because you’re getting money from THEM. And how do I know you’re not the scammer yourself, pretending to be someone else professing to have found a legit site and steering me to your own site?”

This trick can work because people equate “scam” with someone taking their money. The assumption is: If no taking of money is involved, it must be on the level. You need to realize that no taking of money is involved in this trick because this trick is basically just Part One of the scam. The taking of money happens in Part Two, and the only purpose of Part One is to lead you right into Part Two. It’s like the game of three card monte, which is run by TWO con artists working in concert. One guy plays the game and wins to make you think YOU can win, but he’s in on the scam all along.

Way to go, Buzz. That’s how you do it, folks.

Hi everyone, I paid 49.95 to join my data team, has anyone
made any money at all on this site, i am open to any one
who has mad money or been scammed by them,

Thanks

SHIMI

Well Paul I since then have not tried any more work at home get rich quick schemes. During my life I have had sucked into several high energy get rich quick schemes… The American dream is to have property, security, love and happiness. As my father had told me ( my rejected mentor I should have listened to said) “you can’t get something for nothing”) I think he is probably right… It takes hard work to achieve wealth. Investigation before signing any thing or paying and thing. These forums are not scams they are real people and are a tool to help our selves and others not to make the same mistake twice. World web mentors so to speak. I would say Paul, you are doing the right thing by inquiring and investigating, doing the foot work before proceeding with a lot of time and money. It’s like a little piece of you’re spirit is taken when another g.r.q.s. fails.
Ty Coughlin’s Funnel System is a pyramid, as simple as that. And the withhold the truth until they have lassoed the consumer by are own greed and at the same make us feel like we are a special selected few who will make tons of money. When we are purchasing a travel discount membership and Ty makes 50 bucks plus 1000 bucks for every one who joins. I personally don’t want to hurt any one for my gain. Many will lose and if you have extra $ to travel go straight to Global Travel Network and cut Ty out! Good Luck Buzz

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I am very displeased with dataentrybusiness.com. I paid $49.99 for a scam. The website tells you that you can make hundreds of dollars entering data on easy forms, for a business of your choice, that is contained on their company list. By paying the $49.99 you are granted lifetime access to this list of companies and within “four minutes” you are earning money. I did not get access to this supposed list of companies. What I got was a list of companies you have to become an affiliate with. After you become an affiliate you have to get google adwords which cost you about another $30, then you have to set up a webpage for your company. I don’t have a company. After you do the webpage you are instructed that you have to use the google adwords to set up links to the company you affiliated with so that when people on the web use your link they are taken to your affiliate companies’ webpage. If web users use your link then you are “paid by click”. All of this is not what I signed up for and it is nothing like the website for dataentrybusiness.com explains to potential members. Their website leads you to beleive that you will make hundreds per day entering data onto forms for companies that you are never taken to once you pay the fee to become a member. I really am stupid for believing them. I have sent them three emails asking for my money back. That was almost a month ago and I have yet to recieve my money. I am extremely angry at this lack of response from the company and I can’t even visit the website to ask again for my money back because it says that the page has “timed out” or is no longer in service. I guess I will never get my money back, but I am writing this to let others know that dataentrybusiness.com is a scam and to do lots of research before signing up with a website that allows you to work from home.

Lord,i wish that i could get my money back. You know i paid $49.99 for this so call data-entry-job hopeing that was it a
real job work from home. Is there anything that we can do? I
would love to get my $49.99 back.

Thank You

Hi all, a very special thank you to Mich… now I know how to get a refund from paypal by including my invoice statement. Well done Mich, good job. Okay everybody stay away from this site worldmarketsystems.com as they are a complete and utter Scam with a capital “S”. I was ripped-off and this fraud company will not give you a refund. Just go to ripoffreport.com and type in worldmarketsystems.

Okay…. IF YOU WANT TO INVESTIGATE BEFORE YOU BUY THEN GO TO…

……….. http://www.zenreviews.com/ ………………..

Here, you can look up the company details, address, phone numbers, registrants, history, date created etc. you’ll know if a company is a fraud or not if you can’t find legitimate contact information. Hope this helps! Make sure you research before you commit to buy.

Pleas send info how I can get refund from dataentrybusiess.com

Thank You,
bev Butt
772-475-7336

Not a problem Ravi and Lethabo – pleasure to help!

I just hope ALL OTHERS WONDERING HOW TO GET A REFUND AND TAKE MY ADVICE TO GET THEIR MONEY BACK from these scammers!

All the best
Mich (Australia)

Thanks for the effort to unmask these, everyone. I won’t say I was taken in by any of these companies, but I certainly *could* have been, had it not been for the efforts of the likes of you.

Hi everyone,
Can anyone tell me if this site http://www.zenithinfoonline.com/ offers legitimate online data entry jobs? They do have a contact address and other info but they ask for a registration fees, seems to be a scam in this regard though.But on the other hand, the website seems to authentic. I am quite skeptical about it. Pls help.

Anirban(India)

Hi,
I am from India and I am desperate for a work at home job.I joined Data Entry and paid the money December and Now I can’t access the site.I was so worriwd and by accident I came across your site and all these posts.I am going to try to get a refund of my money as advised by you’ll.Wish me luck.If you really know any legitimate online jobs please tell me ,I really need a job.

Hi Joe My wife recently lost her job and is considering a stay at home computer type of opportunity so she can spend more time with our daughter. I love the idea of her being at home but I also am well aware of all the so called work from home scams and lies. I would like a little help as far as choosing a legit online opportunity. Any help is appreciated. Thanks to any and all help. John D

Hi

I am desperately in need of a dataentry or sort of job which i can do by sitting at home I have a kid and i have to look after my family so i am in need of money, can you please suggest me any of the legitimate sites where i can do the job without paying anything of purchasing any of the kit, I am a typing expert and have completed my B.com.

Excellent review! Just the kind of info I’ve been looking for. It’s good to know that somebody reveals the truth about these scams.

Hi Joe. I accidentally came to this site and read Julia’s experience and shocked how similar it is to mine. I too with a baby forced to stay at home was looking desperately to find a way to make money from home and stumbled upon workathometop10.com. I have purchased six figure yearly just recently, only to find out that it has nothing that has been stated in the sales letter. The first 6 chapters are just blah blah and everything else is recycled garbage on affiliate marketing, that information can be easily found in the internet for free, and as if that is not enough, they attempt to make 2 other sales. The workathometop10 is misleading people with its false review and false testimonials. I think they are the only people who are making moneny at the cost of innocent newbies, but this is not the reason I am writing. I was seriously considering buying legitonlinejobs but glad that I saw your review on data entry jobs. I am realy very greatful for your review. Thank you for saving me from getting scammed again and getting ripped off my money at the time when I hardly afford to do so. Great job dude.

Hi,
I’ve been looking for online data entry job and found quite a bunch of these offers. i was suspicious and started searching for reviews and stumbled upon http://consumerreports-online.org/typingjobs.php which didn’t only give reviews but the best DEJ online with supposedly honest reviews.i recently sent $50 to webcolleagues.com on the 2nd June and it’s only now that i found that i was fooled!! i sent a check by postal mail and as i live in Mu. i supposed it could take at least 2 weeks to reach it’s destination.We are the 16 th June, do you think i can still cancel the check???pls help me!!

I am indeed very grateful that there are such kind people as you guys to expose the scam. In fact I nearly wanted to give my Credit card number in the registration. But hesitated due to some gut feel because it felt too good to be true.
Thank you so much for helping me save the money as I am a retired person. God bless all.

don’t even of trying smartdataentry.com they are a scam and i can’t even have my rfund right away i need to make for their 6 month grace period and i filed a complaint against paypal and they sided with smartdataentry.com. they just wanted you to make google adwords and with regards to the dat entry jobs? they just give you a list which you can search thru google or yahoo at anytime. Don’t pay smartdataentry they are a scam.

how about the http://www.home-profits.net if you make a wire transfer th payment if for plimus in san deigo ca but i checked it in bbb link they have registerd since 2003…… but i still have read a complain saying that the plimus is scam……. any comments for this please

yspydery, yes we have. Scroll to the top of the page and then click on “Rebate processor jobs” under the “Categories” tab.

I am still trying to get an interview via telephone with “Data Entry Bucks Plimus”. A young lady called me two nights ago and insisted on talking to my wife also, I said OK and she said she would call back later; which she did. But I was not at home when she did call back. And now I cannot get in touch with her and they have my $39.95. Any suggestions?

Hi I came across this site because I was doing a little research on a site called http://www.dataentrybucks.com.. Thank you for what you are doing in helping people with these scams. I have been in the same home based business for almost for 5 years. If any of you are interested, The Original Limu Company is a very legitimate business. I owned a beauty shop until 2 years ago when I started working from home full time.
Keep up the good detective work.
Thank you
To Your Health and Wealth
Linda Polk
http://www.discoverlimu4ahealthieryou.com

Thank you Joe for the heads up, I have tried a few jobs in the past and have been ripped off. So now I search for sites like yours to help me make my decissions. Being laid off since October my money is tight. I started researching some of these business Dataentry.com being one I considered in the past.They have now changed there site to dataentrry.com, same crap, except they added a extra “R” in the word entry. Clever? yes, falling for it? No. Keep up the great work. The world needs more like you.
Debbie

Hey Hey,

I googled this site, as I do all of them, only 4 pages came up and 33 similar entries were ommited. Guess who was ommited….yepper this site. Usually the scammer warnings come up pretty high in the listings but your was buried for whatever reason, not selling enough adwords are we?? Yea they dressed the site up pretty good but no site map or live address or phone number, just an e-mail address—in the words of the immortal Monty Python “RUN AWAY RUN AWAY RUN AWAY”

i am doing my job as compu.typing(profnl.typist) in ms word excel for the past five years i need dataentry typing works send me details
thanking you

t kumarean

Hi everyone,

I was wondering if anyone happens to know of any home based Telesales vacancies? I can’t seem to find any genuine ones.

Another person saved…. thanks

saved me!it was over a month ago when the last person was saved…on your blog atleast.we all want the same thing, legit work at home. be sure to let us know if it exists, thanks.

Tuesday May 5,2009 (9:30am:pacific time)
Hi to all viewers!! Could you check on these two site, I think there both from the same owner. (www.superprofits.biz) and (www.home-profits.biz)
I purchased both at $40 each. When I got to the members area there both exactly the same. I should have seen the first sign when both front page said if you reach your payout earnings of $1000 or more they’ll pay you on top of that an extra $1000. So that will come out over $2000 plus at the end of the month. WOW! IF ONLY THAT WAS SO TRUE, WRONG. I can not make any amount. I’ve been doing this for about now 4 months. What am I doing wrong. They even credit your opening membership $100. I cannot ask for a payment until I make $100 USD on my part. They give you free advertisement to post over the internet at free sites. I’ve been posting at 5 sites a day, but nothing. I can’t even get my money back because it’s been more than 4 months. That’s it, I won’t be buying another program over the internet. I think I will just stick to free surveys even though it’s for cents or a couple of dollars and points, it’s safer that way. I don’t have lots of money to throw away. I’m trying to make extra money for my family and bills to pay. But you can’t tell what is out there between what’s fraud and what’s the real thing. THANKS for your site where we can find out what program is scamming us folks for what little money we have. I would be really greatful if you could checkout those two sites for me and save me the trouble of posting over the wesites. I’m probably just wasting my time. Could you tell me of some survey sites that are legit and are for real. Here is email.
**Kat (katland5@live.com)

Great Article. It really helped your credibility by using the excerpt from the better business bureau. You saved me!