Make millions online from home in your pajamas!
Ok, I just have to post a little rant here. Once you become a full-time mom, it starts. The emails. The solicitations online. Everyone seems to want to pitch to you about an opportunity to work at home, make tons of money, easy as pie, etc.
You go to the Web sites listed in their posts/email signatures, and you find more of the same: big promises that you can earn lots of money working part time from home, assurances that you won't be cold-calling or telemarketing, and more promises that it's EASY MONEY. But, oddly enough, no specifics. No information about how much it costs to start up (and it should cost NOTHING), no company names, no job descriptions about exactly WHAT it is you'll be doing. You have to call the agent/poster to get that info, so they can waste 30 minutes of your time with a telemarketing script.
I often find these "offers" on a site that I frequent (and that has a community bulletin board about working/careers). Invariably, the post about this amazing opportunity is the first/only post by the individual. So, in other words, they are NOT on the board to make friends or join the community. They are there to drum up leads. (And I would bet money that they receive an incentive for getting other people to join their "business." There's a name for this. It's called a pyramid scheme.) They have also infiltrated MySpace, where they will send you unsolicited friend requests so they can market to you via bulletins.
If you try calling them out, they get defensive. If you do nothing, some innocent person out there thinks that maybe this is a legitimate offer, and they may fall for it. (I'm not the sharpest cheese on the cracker myself, but I know when I am being scammed. I mean, if the opportunity is SO GREAT, why the hard sell?)
At any rate, suffice it to say that if it sounds too good to be true, it is. So far, Jeff Bridges is one of the only people I know that has made a significant amount of money while wearing his robe. (See The Big Lebowski.)
You go to the Web sites listed in their posts/email signatures, and you find more of the same: big promises that you can earn lots of money working part time from home, assurances that you won't be cold-calling or telemarketing, and more promises that it's EASY MONEY. But, oddly enough, no specifics. No information about how much it costs to start up (and it should cost NOTHING), no company names, no job descriptions about exactly WHAT it is you'll be doing. You have to call the agent/poster to get that info, so they can waste 30 minutes of your time with a telemarketing script.
I often find these "offers" on a site that I frequent (and that has a community bulletin board about working/careers). Invariably, the post about this amazing opportunity is the first/only post by the individual. So, in other words, they are NOT on the board to make friends or join the community. They are there to drum up leads. (And I would bet money that they receive an incentive for getting other people to join their "business." There's a name for this. It's called a pyramid scheme.) They have also infiltrated MySpace, where they will send you unsolicited friend requests so they can market to you via bulletins.
If you try calling them out, they get defensive. If you do nothing, some innocent person out there thinks that maybe this is a legitimate offer, and they may fall for it. (I'm not the sharpest cheese on the cracker myself, but I know when I am being scammed. I mean, if the opportunity is SO GREAT, why the hard sell?)
At any rate, suffice it to say that if it sounds too good to be true, it is. So far, Jeff Bridges is one of the only people I know that has made a significant amount of money while wearing his robe. (See The Big Lebowski.)
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They've been sued a couple times over it already.