Updated on: January 13, 2016
Work at home scams are all over these days. With the current financial situation and the job market being at its lowest point since the great depression, more people are trying to find ways to make money. And one of the most appealing options out there is the opportunity to work from home. There are lots of work at home jobs out there, but the reality is that there are lots of work at home scams out there as well. It's not too far fetch to believe there are more work at home scams than actual legitimate work at home jobs.
Finding a no scam work from home can be tough these days. Do you know how to avoid work at home scams? Can you tell apart work at home scams from real work at home jobs no scams?… Here are 7 tips to help you avoid work from home scams:
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Intro and the First two Posts!
Hi everyone and welcome to the Work At Home Scams blog that I am working on. I feel that there are not too many blogs out there that discuss the risks of online scams. Ever since the internet was made there has been numerous of phony online sites that promise people that their system would make you financially wealthy. There are even phony online systems that say people would be able to use a system that would generate sales if you pay some sort of price. These so called systems would always try to be the tip of the iceberg. Other things that these scams would do is promise you that if you earn enough cash to cashout your earnings then you can get $1000 but you have to wait 60 days. Then there are sites that say they would pay you but you have to upgrade your account to get paid. That is not the least of the scams out there to sink its teeth into your hard earned money. There are even government related scams that would try to scare you into thinking that you owe some sort of unknown taxes to the IRS. However one of the more recent scams has to do with fake PG E employees knocking on people's doors. The other most recent scam is a phone scam that when you answer a certain phone call and provide your personal info then your bank account gets charged with unauthorized monthly payments. Whatever the scam may be you need to be on your guard more than ever. So I would do what I can to share with you the scams or scam sites you need to avoid so you would not become another victim.
AVOID grandptc. com!
The first time I had found this site I thought that this is my solution to having no job. So I read the info and it had that typical sales pitch saying something about earn your grand today because of the economy situation. They say on their site that they pay $1 per click and $10 per sign-up. I also read that they have over 439,118 members and have been paying since August 11, 2016. Then I had decided to join which the good thing is that you do not have to pay up front to join. So then I jumped right into it and then had a thought in my mind like " Do Paid to Click sites pay you $1 to view a site"? That is when it hit me and mind you I did not know anything about Paid to Click to make any judgement calls. I went all over Google and researched this site to find any positive reviews and I found none. I even went on Youtube to find videos and I found videos that explained to avoid it. I even looked on grandptc. com and found out they have an upgrade option that cost $19.99/month or a yearly option of $149.95 and its the Ultimate Membership. I also found out that you can purchase referrals but that is a waste of time. I looked at a number of Youtube vids that explain that you would not get paid by these people at all. A net 60 basis is a huge red flag because Paypal only allows you to dispute transactions that are 45 days old. So you cannot get your money back if you mistakenly paid for the upgrades. Looking at the payment proof page I realized that those are fake payments which the users there have not been paid. When I looked up the name of the owner to grandptc. com the name Michael Pratt came up so I felt shocked at how many sites this guy is using to scam people which is appalling. I ask myself " Why do these people do this kind of stuff"? The reasons are clear these people make false promises to keep you down in the dumps. Here are the final reasons why you should not join grandptc. com are written on the bullet points below.
- $1 per click is fake and completely odd in the Paid to Click business. The least you'll get $0.02 only for a 60 second ad. $1000 minimum for a payment is too high for a minimum payout. Usually Paid to Click sites would set the cashout rate from $1-$5 since you only get paid pennies. Fake payment proofs that show users that grandptc. com claims to have paid but did not take any action in paying these people. Net 60 pay scale is another red flag so don't expect to get your money back if you buy something or at all if you request payment.
So to be quite frank you should not join this site ever. If you do join just refer to this page so you would know what to expect when being scammed by grandptc. com so be aware.
AVOID cashtasks. com!
Okay so grandptc. com is not the only bad apple in this whole fake Paid to Click site scheme. There are so so many of these bad apples that the seed I am going to pluck out is the one called cashtasks. com. I had thought this site was going to be a real deal telling people that you can make $30 per task you do. I thought maybe I'd this site a chance then when I looked at the homepage on the site again carefully I realized that the testimonials were all lies. These so called people are saying that there is no online money making system than cashtasks. com. This is where the wind hit the fan I did not pay for anything on the site so I can already imagine how other people would feel if they pay $19.99 to upgrade their accounts to Premium. The homepage shows that cashtasks. com made $1,000,000's in payouts to its members. When I look at a legit site like Neobux that has been there since 2008 I can understand how they can pay millions of dollars to their members. Now hearing about cashtasks. com making a blunt statement about them paying people is a complete lie. The site barely came around this year so there is no way they can pay people that fast. Not to mention the terms of service says you have to wait 60 days to receive payment. Another clue that makes this site bogus is that if you look at the payment proof screenshots they are photoshopped. If you don't believe me go to the site itself and click the payment proof link and look at the screenshots. You should then notice that they are blurred not to mention there is no updates to the payment proofs page. One of the most obvious red flags to this site is when you do reach $1000 and try to cashout you would get a message telling you that you need to upgrade your account to withdraw your earnings. I feel that this is another one of those total ripoffs and if I have to guess the owner has to be Michael Pratt. This is sad since I had some confidence in this program being something worthwhile but I was wrong again. So here are the reasons why you should avoid cashtasks. com in bullet points below.
- Again no Paid to Click pays you $1 to view an ad Forcing people to upgrade their accounts to get paid is a disaster. This means that the owner does not have the funds to pay his or her users $1,000,000's in payouts is very questionable when the site has barely been around since January. Not to mention the payment proof page does not add up to millions of dollars The payment proof is fake the screenshots are photoshopped The Net 60 pay scale is again one of those excuses for the owner not to pay in case of a dispute with Paypal so don't bother asking for your money. The homepage shows pictures of upgraded members testimonials that are bogus only showing pictures of users that may not have an existing account with cashtasks. com
Like with grandptc. com just avoid this site like a virus it is again a way to lure you into failure so you should keep looking elsewhere.
Did you receive a letter from a stranger or a company that you never heard of, offering you easy money in a work-at-home job? They typically offer you 10 % of the payment you are asked to receive from customers. The remaining 90 % you have to send by Western Union.
The whole setup is fraud. There is no company, and no customers. They will send you stolen or fake checks or money orders. Your bank might accept it at first, and you might send the 90 % by Western Union. When your bank some weeks later recognises the problem, they will take the money back from your account and you will have lost all the money you sent. On top of that you risk being arrested for handling counterfeit money.
The whole idea of letting customers pay through you instead of directly to the company or to a bank account makes no sense.
In some of these scams they explain that they want you to be the middleman because the "international money transfer tax" is less for individuals than for companies. This tax does not exist.
Please ignore such offers.
