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  • #1

    Probable Scam. What Say You?

    So I see this on facebook in a local area "yard sale" facebook page:

    "Looking for 30 people to work from home.
    Free! It is free yes I said free!
    Work with our home team.
    We need people who can get around the Internet pretty good.
    You will be referring people in doing some free trials.
    You must have a phone,computer or tablet with Internet access at home.
    Lets make money for Christmas.. Add as a friend and message me to get started right away!"

    I added the poster as a friend, and messaged them, letting them know that I was interested in it, as I could use some additional income. I got this back:

    "Hello Mr. [Dude] I hope you are doing well today and thank you so much for contacting me today for this opportunity. We get paid to do online advertising and marketing. It sounds much more complicated than it actually is. You complete a few short trial offers to get started. This part is the biggest pain but once you get through that its a breeze. That process takes about an hour and i walk you through everything step by step. After that you make 70.00 for each set of offers you complete. Again the offers only take an hour to complete. You get paid the next day for every referral you get to do the signup/trials. Sometimes you get paid in the same day if its early enough. There are absolutely NO up front cost but the company you will be working for does require you to do the trails. They do cost around 12 dollars but I refund this back to you IMMEDIATELY to your paypal account so it ends up being free to you. If you don't have a paypal account it is super quick and easy to setup. I know this sounds way to good to be true. I thought the exact same thing and it took some convincing for me to try it. But i figured I had nothing to lose and if it works great and if not i wasn't out anything. I still didnt believe it would work even after i completed my 1st set of offers, it wasnt until i got my 1st payment that i started believing"

    And now I'm thinking it's a scam pretending not to be a scam by posing as "free" even though it is clearly NOT free. Comments?

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  • #2
    Even his style of speech sounds desperate and scammy.
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    • #3
      Scam, scam, scam, scam. Does the name Amway come to mind? HerbaLife, perhaps? Except this guy doesn't even have any product other than his own chutzpah.
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      • #4
        So, you'd get paid to sign up other people... just like this guy is trying to sign you up?

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        • #5
          As far as I understand his message, you are supposed to pay 12 bucks to do these "trials", before there even is a chance to get paid, right? Even though he says, he's going to refund you the money immediately, I'd say that any job offer that forces you to pay any given amount up front isn't a real job offer. And I definitely second El Pollo's comment regarding the pyramid scheme. Is that even still legal?
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          • #6
            scam city.

            Have you tried looking into Amazons Mechanical Turk? Tiny little tasks that take anwhere from a minute to maybe 10 minutes, and pay more or less pocket change, but many of them are no brainers like looking at images for data capture of zip codes, or street numbers or stuff like that. If you do an hour of work it might end up being minimum wage, but is stuff I do while watching TV or would be sitting around reading or whatnot. The money goes into my amazon account as a micropayment and I let it hang out there until I have enough to buy something - I use it for Christmas presents and such - my brother wants some box set movie or another for Christmas and it is perfect for that.
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            • #7
              Survey Savvy can also be a good source for a bit of extra income, if you fit one of the demographic groups they're looking for. I don't quite, so haven't done anything with it for a long time.
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              • #8
                Alert, Alert, this is a Scammy Scammy Scam Scam McScammy like hell. Do we need sirens that go Awooga and Big flashing lights? But serously, this sounds scammier than a professor of Scam who graduated from Scam University.
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                • #9
                  Of course it's a scam. Don't know what I was thinking. Clearly I was inebriated or something. To be fair, it was originally posted by a person with a girl's name, and on a local facebook yard sale type page. That doesn't excuse me, of course, just saying. Also, I got lured in before I knew about paying anything for anything. At least I had enough sobriety to run it by you guys before I did anything further with it.

                  Now what? Do I just cut off all contact? Or do I bait them along some more? I'm not asking what is the best course of action, just wondering what you folks think I should do....move on, or fuck with them?

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                  • #10
                    Quoth Jester View Post
                    Now what? Do I just cut off all contact? Or do I bait them along some more? I'm not asking what is the best course of action, just wondering what you folks think I should do....move on, or fuck with them?
                    The longer you can string them along the more of their time and energy you waste. Which they could be devoting to more naive and lucrative marks. You can, in essence, become a net loss.

                    Especially if you can string him along to the point where he goes to talk you through one of the trials. Then you can feign total and absolute technological ignorance. Force him to explain to you, step by step, how to even find and open your browser. Fuck up the URL repeatedly. When filling out the payment form, fuck your credit card number repeatedly then reveal you've been trying to enter your debit card number instead. Express confusion as to why this doesn't work. Then get angry that the internet doesn't work that way and complain at length that it should.

                    Finally reveal you don't have a credit card and insist on mailing him the money until he gives you a mailing address. Sent him a letter addressed to "Scamglor, Lord Of Deceit" with no return address. Take the amount he asks for and shift the decimal place to spaces to the right. ( If it's $12, send $0.12 ). Send it all in pennies.

                    Once he realizes you are completely fucking with him continue to try to contact him every day for the next week asking if he got your letter yet and when can you start making big bucks. Insist you are very interested. Make up increasingly ridiculous stories as to why you need the money ( Your goat needs cosmetic ear surgery ).

                    Then, after he is completely fucking sick of you. Post it all on Reddit and include the guy's email address and phone number. Encourage everyone to seek similar "opportunities" with his company.

                    Once you've done all that. Wait till night time when its dark, quiet and you are alone. Then slowly sit down, pour yourself a Scotch and just smile.

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                    • #11
                      Ahem. If I recall correctly, this is the guy who works in a bar with specialty rums. He won't be pouring himself a whiskey.
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                      3. Deal with the situation you have now, however it occurred.
                      4. Accept the consequences of your decisions.

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                      • #12
                        Ayyyup. This one sounds like a piping hot order of Scam scam scam bacon and scam!

                        Quoth Seshat View Post
                        He won't be pouring himself a whiskey.
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                        • #13
                          Quoth EricKei View Post
                          Ayyyup. This one sounds like a piping hot order of Scam scam scam bacon and scam!

                          QFT
                          Damn. You beat me to it.

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                          • #14
                            Quoth Jester View Post
                            Free! It is free yes I said free!
                            aka we won't pay you.
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                            • #15
                              Quoth Gravekeeper View Post
                              Scheme!
                              You, sir, just further cement the belief that you are an evil, evil man.

                              Kudos to you, sir.
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