Robin Hood And The Work At Home Scam

This little scam has been around for a while. It does not feature
in the "Top Ten" work at home scams but it might find its way
there in the near future because there has been a sudden surge
of activity recently from people imitating this particular online scam.

The scam is quite simple and works as follows.

A self styled work at home scam "investigator" sets up a
website with an anti-scam type of name:
DontLetThemScamU.com or ScamNoMore.inf or something along
those lines. Some even manage to work the word "authority"
or "agency" into the site name to add credibility by
implying they are part of a government department.

The website home page will have large headlines warning
that the Internet is full of work at home scam programs and
promises to reveal the truth about them. The page tells us
how the author has been scammed repeatedly by work at home
scam programs and has lost boatloads of money online. It
goes on to describe how the scammers' prey turned into the
hunter and is now able to unmask the frauds and unveil the
legitimate work at home programs discovered during his
crusade.

The details of the story vary a little and sometimes the
"chief investigator" has a female sidekick helping with the
undercover investigations. One current version of the
investigator's story is that this serial scam victim set
out on a one man mission to investigate Internet work at
home programs and unmask the scammers for the benefit of
humanity. After spending five years contacting every home
business program owner he could find on the Internet, he is
going to share (at no charge) the benefit of his vast
experience with us - like a kind of virtual Robin Hood.
Let's call our example investigator Robin from now on.

When you visit his website, Robin invites you to subscribe
to his email series so that he can explain in detail what
work at home scams are to be encountered on the Internet
and how to avoid falling for them. Everyone wants to avoid
scams, so it seems sensible to subscribe.

When the emails arrive, Robin explains at length how
practically every money making online opportunity is a
scam. He lumps together all sorts of different online
businesses such as real estate investing, stock market
investing, HYIP's, affiliate marketing, paid online surveys
and data entry programs, declaring them all to be scams.
For good measure, he also throws in all books and courses
about building an Internet business and declares the
authors of all of them to be frauds. In most instances
the accusations remain vague and Robin never offers any
evidence to substantiate his allegations.

Fortunately, so Robin tells us, he has managed to find
treasure in the midst of all the trash and can recommend
just three programs as being honest. These three programs
get his seal of approval as being legitimate home business
opportunities and offering a real chance to make honest
money from a home based business. To help you further,
Robin tells you to sign up to his selected programs quickly
because they are filling up fast and you might miss the
chance to join and start earning the money you've always
dreamed of.

The truth is that the real scammer is our virtual Robin
Hood, our hero is actually a bad guy in disguise. Robin
has not really spent five years selflessly researching
Internet work at home programs and losing money to scammers
for the benefit of his fellow man. He just painted all
those other programs black to make his whitewashed
offerings look legitimate by comparison.

All sorts of things about Robin's claims raise questions
such as: If he was getting scammed and losing money, what
did he live on? Can it be true that out of all the
thousands of work at home opportunities available, there
are only three legitimate ones? Does this mean companies
like Avon and Tupperware have turned into scams? Apart
from the niggling questions, you should instinctively
distrust anyone who attempts to make his choice of work at
home program look better by making derogatory comments
about all the other available programs. If a work at home
program is legitimate, its members will promote it without
needing to tarnish the reputation of its competitors.

Editor: WATCH OUT FOR THIS NASTY SCAM!!
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The editor, Barrie Segal is the founder of<a href="http://www.appealnow.com"> AppealNow.com™</a> and is a regular radio broadcaster in the UK.

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