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    Whats the deal with these work from home things?

    This is a very random question but its just my curiosity that needs satisfying, I keep seeing these adverts for 'work from home', 'earn £500 per month etc' and im sure its all a scam but like i say its just my curiosity that im asking what do they do? get you to put up more signs? lol.

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    depends on the details of that specific scam.
    It is Inevitable.....


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    Pyramids are one of the scams.

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    Another one is they pay you sod all for doing a simple job a thousand times... and then charge you rent for equipment to do the job...

    Such as data entry for competitions, they 'hire' a PC out to you and then pay you £1 for every 100 entries inputted etc... and any mistakes at all get docked...

    Some of the jobs take ages so you earn roughly £2 an hour if you're lucky.

    Avoid.
    Quote Originally Posted by Dareos View Post
    "OH OOOOHH oOOHHHHHHHOOHHHHHHH FILL ME WITH YOUR.... eeww not the stuff from the lab"

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    One of the scams involved building a kit of some sort - you pay 'x' for a kit, assemble it and the company will buy the assembled kit back at some price greater than 'x'. Only problem this poor sod on Watchdog could not sell his assembled kits back to the company they did not 'pass quality controls'. The Watchdog program suggested the company had no intension of buying back the assembled kits.

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    Quote Originally Posted by PHTC View Post
    This is a very random question but its just my curiosity that needs satisfying, I keep seeing these adverts for 'work from home', 'earn £500 per month etc' and im sure its all a scam but like i say its just my curiosity that im asking what do they do? get you to put up more signs? lol.

    Too good to be true = Usually is!

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    All right then. What about those 'Lose weight fast ! Call [some mobile number]' signs - what's the scam there?
    Quote Originally Posted by Bertrand Russell

    The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

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    Mmmm..my elder sister lost over 13 stones overnight...

    Threw her husband out she did.







    Couldn't resist.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JPreston View Post
    All right then. What about those 'Lose weight fast ! Call [some mobile number]' signs - what's the scam there?
    I imagine they are based on you buying into some weighwatcher type scheme. Pay for a product of pay to go to a class and be weighed there etc.

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    I remember about 20 years ago helping my Mum make Christmas crackers..we made about 100 a day..and I remember her extreme moaning when the cheque arrived a few months later.

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    Your better off with something like Amazon Turks - similar idea (do a boring/repetitive job for pennies a go), but you get paid each time/on time and theres a huge variety of work out there

    http://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome for more info on turks

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    BY the way, Spud.. your clock's wrong, it's 4.03, not 4.20.
    Quote Originally Posted by Dareos View Post
    "OH OOOOHH oOOHHHHHHHOOHHHHHHH FILL ME WITH YOUR.... eeww not the stuff from the lab"

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    There are actually some places around where its possible to make some reasonable money. II used to work for a company called dubit that operated teen chatroom/forums. Used to get about 5/hour over 3 3 hour shifts, not a lot, but its decent beer money when you're at uni.

    If you can touch type a number ofplaces contract out audio typing, and of course theres always chat lines

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    Those posters you see everywhere are not real work from home jobs.

    Google Herbalife and marketing and see what comes up.
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    Some mates at uni reported similar things: envelope stuffing, I think they were paid per 500 envelopes they filled and sealed. Boring repetitive and badly paid.

    However - they were a bunch of hard up students and were quite happy to sit in the living room watching telly and drinking beer while they did it. So it's not all bad.
    They told me I was gullible ... and I believed them.

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