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Just received a link in my email from what I thought was a message from a friend of mine about an internet business opportunity, but turns out it was not from her, it is a scam.

I woud say explicitly what I think should happen to these bottom feeders, but there may be younger viewers accessing this site. I'm sure you can use your imagination.


$50,000 a Month Working from Home: Blatant Lie or Shocking Reality?


Published: Thursday, 15 Nov 2012 | 9:48 AM ET

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By: Jennifer Wilson, Writer




With so many “Work at Home” opportunities all over the Internet today, it’s hard to tell which ones are real and which ones are scams. Here at CNBC, we’re going to uncover the truth about some popular work at home advertisements.
After the recession hit, millions of Americans experienced reduced hours at work and many suffered the loss of their jobs. This made it easy for dishonest Internet companies to prey on men and women who were desperate for work and trying to provide for their families.
Online ads claiming to show you how to “Make $50,000 in Your First Month” – and other outrageous promises – attempted to take advantage of innocent jobseekers struggling to make ends meet.
Unfortunately, most of these were indeed scams and ultimately cost the people who fell for them money they were already in need of.
There are some legitimate Work at Home sites out there, but they are few and far between. As I’m sure you’ve probably seen, there are success stories on blogs and personal websites of people who have allegedly made thousands of dollars working from home.
We’ve been skeptical about these claims and aren’t sure if proof can be found in these allegations. We decided to conduct a study of several sites that offered Work at Home opportunities to see if they were legitimate money-making systems.
Putting Work at Home Sites to the Test

I volunteered to test-run some of these systems, myself. To get started, I Googled “make money at home,” just like an average person would do. One of the first results was a relatively new system, but their website was getting a lot of traffic. The name of it was Home Business System. It sounded pretty ordinary, but that’s what I wanted – to try a system that would work for the average person.
Study #1: Home Business System – Work at Home opportunity that shows the user how to make money from websites and posting links.
I went to the website, where it promised that I could have a “stable income in just a week.” On the page, it also claimed that I could:

  • Do This with Little or No Experience.
  • Be My Own Boss and Choose My Own Hours.
  • Have My Business Up and Running in Just a Few Hours.
The Home Business System course offered me two different options to make money online. Selling products (given to you for free after sign-up) on a website, or posting links on sites like blogs and forums.
Basically, the program offers a very detailed guide with step-by-step instructions that walk you through the process of exactly how to make money online. It also includes video tutorials.
It took me about a week to make money, but I made close to $500 after the first week. After three months, I had made nearly $8,000 (see detailed analysis below).
Study #2: NPD Research (www.npdor.com) – Work at Home opportunity that pays users for completing surveys.
Next on my search results page, I chose a popular survey site called NPD Research. They offered many surveys, but after filling out most of the information on many of them, I was “disqualified” before being paid because one of my answers would not match the criteria the company was looking for.
So, much of the work I put in did not pay me. The surveys I did qualify for paid well, but there weren’t a lot that I got to the end of before being “disqualified.”
Study #3: Minute Workers (minuteworkers.com) – Work at Home opportunity that pays users based on completion of specific tasks.
Minute Workers was the last site I chose in my “make money at home” Google search. This site offered many tasks to complete, but all were worth small amounts. Some tasks paid $0.10 and took 10 minutes to complete, so the payout was not worth the effort.
A few tasks paid higher, around $1 and $5 per task, but there were not many. Some of these tasks were survey opportunities, much like NPD research, where I had to “qualify” with my answers. This made them hard to complete and earn money.
The other small jobs just did not pay enough to make a living off of.
Conclusion

After testing all three Work at Home opportunities for three months, these are the final results at the end of our study:
CompanyDifficulty of UseHours Worked/DayAverage $/HourTotal Earned
Home Business SystemLow4 hours$32.90/hour$7,897.06
NPD ResearchIntermediate4 hours$4.43/hour$1062.55
Minute WorkersLow4 hours$1.40/hour$336.18
* Results after three months
Home Business System netted me almost $8,000 in just three months. I didn’t start earning money with it for almost a week, but after I did, I earned a large amount. Both NPD Research and Minute Workers offered minimal earnings for the amount of work I put in.
In the end, the results speak for themselves and Home Business System is clearly the winner.
Many Work from Home sites are scams, but we happened to get lucky with our results. Maybe you will be as fortunate in your search.
We’ve included a link to our winner, Home Business System, if you’d like to look into their program.
Step 1. Go to this link: Home Business System, and check whether the course is available in your area.
Step 2. Log in to the Member’s Area and choose one of the two options to make money with.
Step 3. Go through the easy-to-use, step-by-step course provided to you, follow the directions, and GET PAID!
We are not sure if they are still accepting members but you can always check the availability on their website.
Good luck in your job search!

Sounds good right, especially when a trusted friend supposedly sends it.
After I researched it on the net I found this article:



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Previous NextIs Home Business System a Scam? Consumer Warning!

Posted on October 2, 2012 by wayne
Consumer Report on lastnewsworld.com and homeworkhere.com
You would love to think that you can be making money from home and bring your lifestyle back into some form of comfortable position again. Well, you can! However you should put the brakes on if you have been referred to one of the Internet’s newest scam sites.
It starts with LastNewsWorld.com that has itself cleverly covered with CNBC logos and official looking content and graphics. However this site was created just over a month ago and appears to be a front for a online scam website called HomeWorkHere.com which is registered to a Howard Molly out of Dublin Ireland.
The article which is reportedly a report by writer Jennifer Wilson, becomes a strong sales pitch which is designed to create a comfort factor with consumers in order for them to open their wallet to Mr. Molly and potentially others including a Shirley Smith, the registered owner ofLastNewsWorld.com. At this point we are still investigating whether these individuals truly exist and the only real person we know exists is the one at the other end of the cash register collecting the $77.00 they charge to allow you to work with them with the dream of earning just under $8000 in three months working only 4 hours a day.
I am the first to tell you it is true that you can work from home, earn a living, make better than good money without driving your car anywhere to get to a 9 to 5 job. However, it is sites such as these that are the reasons why consumers are so sceptical over any offer at all. If you have any positive news to report on these companies, please contact me immediately so I can further the investigation and find the truth. However in the meantime, be aware of the fact these sites: were created and hosted just over a month ago, attempts to reach the site operators via their support email and toll free number were not successful, they are riddled with false claims and misrepresentations which appear to have only ONE purpose… and it is NOT to be of service to consumers.
If you have come across a valid, real, long standing home base business that has a track record of making money for hard working honest people, please send me the links and I will be happy to investigate the business opportunity for my readers.


This entry was posted in Consumer Advocate, Scams and tagged CNBC, Fake Offers, Home Business System, lastnewsworld.com, Scams by wayne. Bookmark the permalink.4 THOUGHTS ON “IS HOME BUSINESS SYSTEM A SCAM? CONSUMER WARNING!


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    Steve on October 5, 2012 at 5:57 am said:

    Man I so very much hope you are wrong, but I know already, you are likely right.
    My family is hurting, like real hard. I am an amputee and stay at home dad with our Austistic son, as my wife pulls in income as a substitute teacher. This afternoon I got an email from a former college professor, with just a link. It led me to the site with the article that appeared to be a CNBC site. I should have known better. I took money, we did not have to spend, on the hope of getting us out of the hole, and and ordered the package, which by the way is not $77 as you cite here in your article, but rather it was $97. And seconds after I submitted the money to them on the “homeworkhere” site, I checked my email to find another letter from my former professor, a mass email to his whole email contact list, including me, with an apology that apparently his email had gotten a virus, and no email sent from it in the last 2 days should be trusted.

    My heart sank. I immediately sent a mass email to my contact list, likewise warning everyone not to trust any suspicious emails coming from my inbox. The site offered a money back gurantee, that if you made no money using thier system in 30 days, they would give refund your money 100%. This economy sucks, crap like this makes it worse.

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      wayneon October 5, 2012 at 11:57 am said:

      Steve, My heart and prayers go out to you. What I would suggest is that you contact your bank and ask to have the payment reversed. Send an email to the support address on the company website. I have done this as well to seek their response to the claims and as I expected, no response from them. If you are interested, I would like to refer you to some folks as to some possible work you can do from your home. One has not cost associated with it, it is simply research. The other is a company that is building teams of people to introduce their group buying programs and there is a cost for your back office and training of $99.00 plus $14.95 a month. I say this up front so your expectations are in line with what they offer. Once again, my thought are with you and your family. Make sure you use our LostMoney search services, which are free, to see if there is any money you or your family can claim. God bless, Wayne

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    Orion Erickson on November 10, 2012 at 4:47 pm said:

    I also received an email from a close friend with a link to the “cnbc news” website. I was immediately skeptical since there was no message from my fiend’s link. I give the scammers credit for making it look like a real news website and the grammar was spot on (not usually the case with scams). What was the final hint that it was a scam was the comment section: no comments. For a news website this is a big red flag. For the people reading this, you always want to check the comment area and see if they are up-to date (a lot of scams do have fake comments) and see if you can add your own comment. If it says “comments closed”, should be another flag. Also, do a search about the website (which got me here) and see what other people are saying. Hope this helps!

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      wayneon November 10, 2012 at 6:04 pm said:

      Orion, right on target. There are many flags that should pop up when we receive emails or when we are directed to a website. However, these scam artists are getting better every day at making the information look so real that you want to believe it.
      One of the best ways I have found is checking the date that the website was created… http://www.whois.sc... and seeing if the ownership is hidden. If a domain was just created during the past few weeks or few months… watch out.
      Thanks for your feedback, very helpful for all. Best Regards, Wayne

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