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**Ephejvll** · 06-13-2012, 07:16 PM

TMM, I got this by responding to a Craigslist ad; the "job" in question almost certainly doesn't exist, and all the details are made up simply to entice people to go to their website and do something to help their bottom line for free. Possibly it would involve downloading something nefarious. More likely I would get a little ways into the process before signing up for a credit report as a formality to ensure I was a trustworthy person. Or I would be a "mystery shopper" buying merchandise for reimbursement that never comes (possibly for merchandise that never arrives either). My favorite is the busy jet-setting executive who's traveling around for the next couple of weeks but is willing to "give you a try" by having you run a couple of errands for him before he gets back. Anyway, you can tell there's something fishy by the low skill requirement, the high, specific compensation, the ridiculous YOU MUST CALL NOW notice...

If it were just a lousy sales job and not an outright scam, they would list an utterly outlandish range of compensation like "$100-500K a year!!" with the tacit understanding that it could be achieved by a sufficiently "motivated" seller. There's a pattern to these things.

06-13-2012, 07:16 PM	#7
Ephejvll Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 472 Senior Member	TMM, I got this by responding to a Craigslist ad; the "job" in question almost certainly doesn't exist, and all the details are made up simply to entice people to go to their website and do something to help their bottom line for free. Possibly it would involve downloading something nefarious. More likely I would get a little ways into the process before signing up for a credit report as a formality to ensure I was a trustworthy person. Or I would be a "mystery shopper" buying merchandise for reimbursement that never comes (possibly for merchandise that never arrives either). My favorite is the busy jet-setting executive who's traveling around for the next couple of weeks but is willing to "give you a try" by having you run a couple of errands for him before he gets back. Anyway, you can tell there's something fishy by the low skill requirement, the high, specific compensation, the ridiculous YOU MUST CALL NOW notice... If it were just a lousy sales job and not an outright scam, they would list an utterly outlandish range of compensation like "$100-500K a year!!" with the tacit understanding that it could be achieved by a sufficiently "motivated" seller. There's a pattern to these things.
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