Readers Respond: Have You Ever Been Deceived by a Work at Home Scam?

Responses: 9

Have you ever tried a work-at-home opportunity that turned out to be bogus or at least a waste of time? Tell your story and help keep someone else from losing time and money.

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I got sold

I saw an ad for google. They said that by posting ads I was able to make alot of money. They said it wasn't a scam. I mean come on its google, Google would never scam. But the interesting thing was that a week after I had purchased this so called google kit for the price of .99 cents, there on my checking acct was a pending amount of 68.34 for a nother company. Now who is this, I thought this was google. I dont know, all i know is here i am 68.34 short of my hard earned money. its gone and all in lies. i wasn't aware of this so called job opportunity until it was too late. so please dont let my 64.34 go to waste. Learn from my mistake and please check into everything you might think sounds too good to be true. always google it. lol. I fortunately talked to a representative from my bank and cancelled my acct before they could do more damage to it. Hope this helps and good bless all of you always. Be safe Thanks for reading this.

—Guest Maria

Work at home job

An advertisement on the radio ad said about a very profitable stay at home work. Talking with the people they signed me up for $4300 to be a supervisor and did not have to sale anything. The "product sells itself" I was told. All this was a marketing tier business that exclusively prey on new people to pay the more established people in the business. I am not a saleperson, I told the person to begin with, but all I got was lip service about listen to this forum or webinar and they will tell you how to sell your product. Six months later I got a lot of "I told you so" from my wife as I realized I had been ripped off by people that their only concern was to make them money. 3 months after that I virtually gave the product away. My biggest concern is to let people know if you have that kind of money to throw away, maybe you should just sit at home doing nothing and using that money as income instead. The only good part was I could write it off on taxes as a business expense.

—Guest Glenn

Marketing

I've lost about $200 on marketing sites. These sites tell you there techniques of making money will generate a continual flow of money. ALWAYS READ DISCLAIMER, CONTACT, WHATEVER ELSE FIRST. I remember giving $50 to a company first, then I decided to look at the contact info, and they were from the Netherlands with bogus address, but they claimed to be from the US and legit, of course that was a waste of money. If you need any marketing techniques, go to your public library and read the books and learn free, instead of wasting money you don't have.

—Guest Kenya

Data Entry Typist / Work From Home

I am very angry about this. These poeple are selling their scam to you. You pay R200.00 for the scam which is sent to you via email after you`ve deposited the money. They advertise their business as legit and offer to help you if you advertise your scam to cheat others out of their hard earned money. I am willing to have this investigated soon.

—Guest Debbie

Make jewelry from home....

I bought a kit to make seed bead earrings from home. I followed the instructions carefully and made a very nice pair of seed bead earrings. I sent them in for approval, but they were rejected. They sent the earrings back....they looked like they'd been used for tug of war. I was told they weren't acceptable, even though when I sent them OUT they were perfect. It's easy for them to reject your work...they take your money, you assemble the project, then submit your work, they damage it, then send it back to you saying it's not good enough. Goodbye money.

—Guest dreamwrthy

Work at home scams

I have spend a lot of time looking for work at home opportunities but have yet to find a legit one. The last one is for you to look for foreclosure deals. The "Investor" (who ever that prson is) will purchase the property and you get to keep the profit finders fee. However, they want you to paid 499.00 first for the information, money they said they will return with your first finders fee. When I ask why these investors did not get foreclosure inf. directly from the banks or real state agencies. I was told that they don't have the time, however they trust the judgment of someone that might not know anything about real state? Yes they still waiting for my mony. LOL Victoria

—Guest Victoria

scam money order

I was silly enough to accept an online job offer to be an account clerk to receive payment the keep records. My first training material was 2 money orders for me to buy a laptop. I use my debit card to make the payment and subsequently the online boss sent me another 2 more money orders and want me to cash it and send out the money to Nigeria. I wasn't aware there is scam money order in the market. I lost $4k in total for 2 days transaction. I was working under time pressure.

—jclais

Fraud Scams

I have tried many companies, but all made fool of me. They have taken money from me, but didn't return it, though there was a money back guarantee. I have spent so many months in these programmes but all of my time and efforts are gone in vain. I was trying online work for the past 4-5 years and spent money a lot in different programmes, but didn't get reliable company. Now I think all the online companies are frauds. Thank you, ibad ur rehman delhi (india)

—Guest ibad ur rehman

Surveys

I tried surveys. I didn't pay to get a list of surveys or anything, but it was a waste of time. I went to one of those "free" survey sites and signed up. It took a lot of time to do anything on the site. Every time you clicked on a page, you had to click on 3 more pages (usually some kind of sales pitch) to get to the survey. Then often I didn't qualify for the survey. When I did manage to take a survey it only pays a little. It was hard to do enough to make enough money to actually collect. I think there was a $50 minimum to pay out.

—Guest Jill