As great an opportunity as eBay is, there are also some eBay scams to watch out for if you’re trying to make a business out of it: Bid Rigging or Shielding – in this scam, either two bidders work together, or one bidder using two accounts, rigs the outcome of an auction. One bids low on your item then soon after the other bids unrealistically high say two or three times the value of the item. The high bid prevents anyone else from making a competitive bid but of course that bidder backs out before payment time. You’re now...
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Survey Scams
While there are lots of legitimate surveys carried out by genuine companies and marketing agencies there are unfortunately also plenty of duds. One of the recurring scams we see time and time again involves the promise of large amounts of money for completing online surveys. Some of these ads will claim you can make hundreds of dollars per day doing online surveys for a couple of hours form filling. I came across surveypolice.com which attempts to list the genuine sites and weed out the survey scams and looks to be doing it very well. The site is full of...
More Work at Home Scams
So many ways to scam the unsuspecting! Following the previous post on scams, here are a few more to watch out for. Data Entry While no doubt there are some legitimate data entry type jobs, you’ll find there are way too many scams in this area. Typically you’ll see an advert talking about how you can make loads of money entering small ads online. What you’re likely to get is a guide telling you the basics of how google adwords works so you can start entering ads if you can find something profitable to advertise. Payment Forwarding One scam...
Home Business Scams
Work at home scams have been around since long before the internet however the increasing reach of the net has given the scam artists a new method of getting their schemes out to more and more victims. We’ve all seen ads and emails promising us wonderful lifestyles and great home businesses for just a small investment of our money and time and many of us will have been duped in some way or other ourselves. There are also many real opportunities and genuine ways of working at home, the difficulty is in sorting through the scams to reach the...
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