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: http://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.
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