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FTC, Google Go After Scammers
coondoggie notes that the Federal Trade Commission said it was going after three outfits that allegedly made robocalls to sell worthless credit-card interest-rate reduction programs for large up-front fees (as much as $1,495). And reader Cwix tips us that today Google filed a lawsuit against Pacific WebWorks and other unnamed defendants for allegedly using the company's name and logo to promote fraudulent work-at-home money-making schemes. "Kate Lister, author of Undress for Success — The Naked Truth about Making Money at Home, estimates that more than 95% of Google hits on the words 'work at home' are scams, link to scams, or other dead ends."
"people who just want to do minimal work, never leave the house, and yet still make thousands per week?"
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"Undress for Success — The Naked Truth about Making Money at Home"
Is the subtext here that the only way to make money working from home is as a webcam stripper?
Or merely that when you're on the phone to your working-from-home colleague, he may be naked?
...and Microsoft wouldn't take action against them because they'd double Bing's search traffic.
Say it isn't true. How ever could someone be so cruel as to scam people who just want to do minimal work, never leave the house, and yet still make thousands per week?
Because running a work-at-home scam requires minimal work, you never have to leave the house, and you still make thousands per week.
What exactly can a programming language come after scammers in?
That makes no sense.
It makes no sense!
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I'd hardly go to people working naked for help with any kind of laundering.
Bark less. Wag more.
Does this mean that 5% of the links are actual legitimate opportunities for me to work at home and earn thousands of dollars a week in my spare time?
*That* should be the headline here.
Are 5% of the penis enlargement ads legitimate, too??
If the masses can keep you down, you're not the Ubermensch.
I love how the Internetz has allowed any lazy SOB to be a scammer. What happened to all the hard work you used to have to do in order to "work at home" scam people? Back in the day pre-Internetz, a college roommate of mine answered one of those "stuff envelopes from home" that used to appear in like every college newspaper want ads at the time. It cost like $20 up front or something like that to get the package. When the package arrived, it was basically an envelope with a sheet of paper that said something to the effect of "take out ads in college newspapers advertising to stuff envelopes at home, then make photocopies of this document and mail it to anyone that answers the ad." LOL We laughed so hard at him. Because after all, $20 was a lot of beers back then what with the nickel beer nights and such :)