Comments | team_unemployed: From Mr. Work-from-Home (FTC Crack Down)

drakenhart in team_unemployed

From Mr. Work-from-Home (FTC Crack Down)

Jul 02, 2009 10:21

I subscribe to Mr. Work From Home, if for any reason because he has a lot of good advice on what NOT to do and where to NOT go. :)

I recieved this email today and thought I'd share it with you, as well as another warning.

( Cut for length. )

warning, ftc, information, fraud

Comments 5

gradeafan July 2 2009, 19:25:09 UTC

Don't trust that google ad tree thing. About two months ago I thought I was signing up for something similar. Would cost $1.97 or some such trivial amount. So yeah I gave em my credit card number. They have now hit my checking account 3 times for amounts like $72.77 and $86.89 and $62.86. Each time I contacted my bank and explained it was not an authorized charge and it has been reversed...but what a pain in the a$$.

f

farewellojoys July 5 2009, 17:24:01 UTC

Sorry to butt in, but if your bank is like mine you can put a stop payment on so that they can't take out any more money. If your bank works the same as mine, bring the name of whoever was withdrawing and make sure it gets input EXACTLY the way it appears on your statement if it does.

gradeafan July 5 2009, 17:50:36 UTC

Yeah, thanks for the info. Actually my bank was very cooperative in getting the charges reversed. But it was still a hassle for me. Had to cancel my debit card and wait for a new one. But part of the issue is that the original $1.97 that I DID authorize and I was willing to risk for whatever information I thought I was buying was a completely different name than the two other company names that showed up on my bank statement. A quick google of either of those names got to page after page of results of people complaining about their scammer tactics.

f

virtualmel July 2 2009, 20:51:45 UTC

As a Fraud Investigator at a major nationwide job finding website, any "job" that you have to pay money for is definitely not worth it. Kits, info packets, etc. are scams, as are most "work from home" advertisements.

Please be careful out there!

cortezopossum July 3 2009, 00:20:52 UTC

Not sure if you've worked with them before but I'm uncertain the best way to deal with scams on Craigslist. Some are obvious and are flagged and deleted right away but the couple I've dealt with weren't so obvious and required getting an email response from them before seeing anything scam worthy.

The two I've seen involve require you to email them -- they send a reply with an 'indirect' link to the scam site (on one the link they provide redirects you to the scam ... the redirect only works once though .. do it again and you go to Google.com -- on the other they provided a trojan horse link that had a space in it ... you had to cut and paste it and delete the space.)

I flagged both posts and sent email to abuse@craigslist.org about the other but so far neither has been deleted.