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Originally published on ConsumerAffairs
If you’re looking for work in this economy you know you must be careful, because there exist plenty of scammers, thieves, and con artists using fake job offers or help-wanted postings as bait to hook new victims. A California man named Ryan recently wrote us about a close call he had when he applied for a … Continue Reading
Originally published on ConsumerAffairs
Yesterday I got an email from a friend offering an amazingly lucrative part-time job opportunity (and who couldn’t use extra money in this economy?) — $350 per week, and all I have to do is let an energy-drink company put advertising decals on my car! Unless I don’t have a car, in which case I can … Continue Reading
If you’ve been on Facebook over the long holiday weekend, you might’ve seen posts promising 500 lucky people the chance to win a year’s worth of free flights on Virgin Airlines — and for a chance to win, all you have to do is “like” a certain Facebook page and “share” a certain Facebook post.
Don’t
Originally published in ConsumerAffairs
If you’re a regular Facebook user, you’re pretty much guaranteed to run across lots of “like-farming” scammers – maybe without ever even realizing it.
At best, these like-farming pages clutter your friends’ feeds, crowding out content they actually want to see (and possibly making them annoyed with you, for drowning their feeds in such noise); at