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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?"
You've met our IT Consultants?
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Or merely that when you're on the phone to your working-from-home colleague, he may be naked?
Actually, it's that when you're on the phone to your working-from-home colleague, he's working concurrently as a webcam stripper. How concurrently? Don't ask. For the love of all that is holy, don't ask.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
...and Microsoft wouldn't take action against them because they'd double Bing's search traffic.
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.