Are Home Typing Jobs a Scam?
We just couldn’t do it, y’all. Even though we promised here to review home typing jobs, the top search results are so blatantly misleading that we couldn’t bring ourselves to sign up. Not only are we certain that home typing jobs sites are are lying, but we also don’t want to give personal information and credit card numbers to dishonest people.
So we can’t claim to have tried what we’re about to trash. It’s just our collective opinion. Take that for what it’s worth. However, we are writing from lots of experience with sites that are long on hype and short on delivery.
Typistjobs.net is like all the others we’ve seen before. This post is an analysis of the red flags that are all over the site, not an insider’s review of the program.
Can You Make Money with Typistjobs.net?
No. Well, a very few will. In fact, if you choose to pursue the program that you bought, you’ll end up spending money, not earning it. That’s because you won’t be doing “typing jobs” at all. You’ll be doing affiliate marketing.
Why Typistjobs.net?
There are tons of sites offering to sell you the secrets of getting rich by typing at home. The link above includes a list of the top search results for “home typiing jobs,” each of them pretty much the same. Why settle on Typistjobs.net? It’s very simple: because of the gorgeous babe at the top of the page. Oh, be still, my heart! If I’m going to spend a lot of time looking at a site to dissect it, I might as well look at her instead of the cheesy stock photos and ugly snapshots at typingwealth.com.
What You Mean by “Typist Jobs”
When you go to Google looking for “home typing jobs,” here’s what you imagine: You think you’ll get hooked up with some company that needs you to type up paper documents to digitize them. Or maybe a law firm that needs you to transcribe audio files. You think you’ll do, you know, typing. You also believe that, in return for your work, you’ll get a paycheck. That’s what “job” means, after all.
Sites like typistjobs.net know this is what you’re looking for, and they use that knowledge to take your money. They know you’ll ask yourself, “Is this legitimate? Is it really possible?” They also know most people won’t think to ask, “Will I really be doing typing work? Will I get paid by the hour or based on my volume?”
What They Mean by “Typist Jobs”
You see, they let you think that their definition of “typist jobs” is the same as yours. That assumption is what gets people to take out their credit cards. But when you complain that they lied to you, they’ll say you misunderstood. To them, “typist jobs” means: “Creating affiliate ads and then sending them all over the Net.” To them, “getting paid” means: “Commissions you get if someone clicks on your ad and then buys what it offers.”
If that’s what you want to do, go for it. Lots of people make money online with affiliate ads, and if you’re going to get into it, you might as well start by buying from the page with the beautiful woman.
But if that’s not what you had in mind when you searched for typing jobs, run fast, run far. Typistjobs.net is chock full of red flags that shout, YOU ARE BEING MISLED. Here are some of them:
- It claims you can make “$200, $500,or even $1,000 - EVERY single day, working
just 15-30 minutes a day!
It should go without saying, but it doesn’t: life doesn’t work that way, folks. You’re not going to get rich with no effort. Unless you’re Paris Hilton or a smoking-hot 22-year-old female friend of Eliot Spitzer, that’s true all the time. - The words, “…doing data entry.”
In our experience, this phrase is a dead giveaway. It’s a virtual guarantee that you won’t be doing “data entry” in the way you think of it. I once worked at the IRS. Now THAT’s data entry. Those people type so fast it makes you dizzy. And they made about $9 an hour. (See our series of smackdowns on data entry jobs here.) - The words, “…99% of them are total scams!.”
But this one isn’t. Really! We promise! They pretend to be your friend by acknowledging what you already suspect: that you’re being scammed. This is a “good-cop” strategy meant to tear down your defenses. - The “proof” of earnings.
Every site that tries to sell you a money-making program includes a picture like the one on the page as if that proves anything. But typistjobs.net was less careful than most sites. They left the word “Clickbank” on the graph, which shows that we are in fact dealing with affiliate marketing, not typing. Those may very well be real earnings, but they’re not from filling out forms. They probably come from selling the “home typing” program to desperate people. -
Real typing jobs have speed requirements.
If you’ve ever applied for a real typing or data entry job, you know that the employer wants to see proof of how fast you can type. If you’re slower than 70 words a minute, you won’t even get a second look from a potential employer. That’s the nature of real typing jobs. Sites like this one and many others insist that you don’t need any special skills. That’s like a company setting out to hire a computer programmer and saying, “No programming skills necessary.”
Further Proof of Affiliate Marketing
We sometimes take a lot of heat for reviewing a program that we haven’t actually tried. However, when it comes to websites like these, we know what we’re dealing with because we’ve already seen it all. To emphasize my point, take for example a screen shot of a “sample” entry form for your “home typing” job. (It’s found at the bottom of the FAQ page) The site leads you to believe that all you have to do is fill in this form and get paid. What they fail to tell you is that after you fill in the form, you’ll have to spend quite a few dollars in order to get an advertisement up and running through Google Adwords.
Click here to view the screen shot of their sample form.
And now click here to view my screen shot of Google Adword’s back-end panel.
Notice the similarities? The screen shots aren’t matching exactly because the sample form used by TypistJobs.net is a few years old. You could say that it’s pretty convenient that they “forgot” to add in the Google Adwords logo, but I say it’s a deceptive ploy to scam you out of money.
Keep Your Guard Up
It seems everyone has a program they’re trying to sell for $49.95 that will help you earn “$1,000 every day!” That’s a clue right there that you’re being lied to. When we find such a guaranteed money maker, you can be sure we’ll sell it. Starting bid will be $10,000.
But we don’t know of any such money maker. We do know how you can add a couple hundred bucks to your monthly budget, though. We know how to find real jobs, not B.S. like home typing job sites are trying to sell you. Real jobs. Real pay. No gimmicks. It’s all in our ebook. It costs as little as $5.95, so check it out today!
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I am looking for Computer typist job on online / offline data entry from home with genuine company. If any good company rely on my interest can conduct a test to prove my skills. Then other matters may be followed.
I am looking for Computer typist job on online If any good company rely on my interest can conduct a test to prove my skills.
I found an ad in the newspaper looking for at home typists. They say that it takes about 3 hours per day to make an average of $400/week. I was wondering if anyone had heard of them? uniquemarketingsite.com/index.php
@ Hamilton: It’s an affiliate marketing site, kind of like what we’ve seen with data entry jobs and rebate processor jobs. But at least Uniquemarketing is honest about what they’re doing. You won’t be doing typing jobs at all, and you will only get paid if someone buys a product after clicking your ad.
I am going to join typistjobs.net
any suggestions?
Carol, Did you read the review? If you’re expecting to do actual typing at home, I suggest staying away. However, if you are signing up to learn something about affiliate marketing, this is as good a choice as any other paid site. Best of luck.
Hi there,
Yes I read the reviews and good comments.Just wanted to make sure it was not a scam!
Thank you for the good advice.
I am going to sign up now!!
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Carol
Carol, we must not be communicating clearly. Our review advises everyone to stay away from typistjobs.net. You won’t be doing typing jobs–you’ll have bought instructions on how to do affiliate marketing. We believe you’ll end up spending money, not making it.
I suspect you’re talking about good reviews and comments on sites that are promoting home typing jobs.
Well you said “You won’t be doing typing jobs–you’ll have bought instructions on how to do affiliate marketing”.
This did not sound negative to me?
I already joined so its too late now.
Anyways,so far so good!
Ok, Carol. Good luck. Be sure to let us know how it goes.
Thank you so much for the post
I live in Canada and found a similar ad in a Chinese free newspaper in the supermarket.It has the same claims in Chinese:make over $2000 monthly filling out forms,basic knowledge of English,speed of typing not important,make $69 refering clients.I called the 212 number which should be New York.It was a recording.It seems I need to buy some sort of program.(My Mandarin Chinese is not that good)I was told to call another number beginning with 954 (which should be in Florida) for details.I went online and found your web-site.You are informative and humorous,a rare combination.I am not going to call the 954 number now.You have exposed a scam and should be considered a hero!
I think “Carol” is a phony baloney trying to give a postive spin on the negatively-reviewed site (as an affiliate, duh), to boost signups.
Either that, or she understands very little English
*shrugs*
I mean… come on! She put the link to typistjobs.net right into her comment URL (hover mouse over her name).
Duh. Spotting a scammer a mile away is easy.
You might be right, beej. But I left Carol’s comment and link in the hopes that she’s really the babe shown at the top of typistjobs.net! I mean, there’s a chance, right? And if I leave up the link, maybe we can meet someday.
Hey guys. Why don’t you stick to google adsense. Well you have to make your own site though and nurture it. hehe anyways im earning there.
Hi Joe.
Sounds like you may have a crush?
i am a disabled man of 35 and a father of 2. I stay at home with my kids and have looked so many times for different work at home jobs, and was having no luck, til i found typistjobs.net. It at first I thought was a scam, it seemed to good to be true for as little as you pay. I seen many sites out there that was charging you hundreds, just to work for them. I read every little detail on the site and final joined with typistjobs.net and had bad luck for a couple weeks. I started emailing the support team and anyone i could get to answer. Finally got an answer and they helped me to succeed in making money. Now i have been with the company for a little over a year and I am making enough money to pay my bills and still have enough to have fun and take my family out once in a while.
That’s cool, Mike. What kind of work do you actually do, and how does typistjobs.net help? Thanks for the info.
With typistjobs.net I post ads for the companies that is provided to me and the companies that i choose to work for pay me for my efforts and such. But since you have tried this as you say, you should know all about what i do to get paid. RIGHT…. I am doing just fine with this comapny, quite frankly really gettin tired of everyone saying this is a scam, if this keeps up i will not have a job it will be shut down and I really can not afford this, because this is my income beside disability, every little bit helps no a days with the economy the way it is.
The first paragraph clearly states that we didn’t try it. You’re posting affiliate ads and/or Google ads, I see. Do the companies pay you for every ad you post?
like the #1 superaffiliate said: “if typist jobs really do make that much money, won’t everybody be rich already?”. I agree.. Let’s go back to basics.Learn the real deal: Affiliate Marketing. If you success in it, you’ll success alright.
http://www.sistempipauang.com
the companies that you choose do pay you for advertising for them and even some of them pay you for just putting an ad out for them. If you are so interested in this why don’t you try it for yourself and find out more details on your own……..
Joe,the owner of this website has some kind of agenda.So what is it Joe? No one just makes a forum to put down other companies because he’s bored.I’m calling you out on this Joe.
What is it that are you promoting?
Just get to the point and be honest.
Well lets see if Joe prints this first.
A million says i’m right about this one.
Hey Tiger,
Calling me out? You’re quite the hero, aren’t you? We’ve talked so often about what we’re promoting that our regular readers have bought our ebook just to shut us up! We’ve been very unsubtle about promoting ourselves. You’re like the guy who walks into a costume party and says, “All right, what’s really going on here? Million to one you’re not really Superman, dude.”
Ok, I do like you Joe.I am a fairly new reader but I have to admit, You are a Good Guy and do give good advice.
So tell us Joe, are you single??
Married? Divorced?
What’s the scoop if you don’t mind?
Aside from business of course… HaHa…
Hi Loretta. Are you the woman at the top of typistjobs.net?? If so, I’m available. If not, I’m married to someone as beautiful as her.