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Scam : Data entry

The Data Entry Scam

Very Similiar to the Typing Scam, Look Closely for The Differences

This is very similar to the typing scams except in my opinion, in some ways, these are worse, and I'll explain why. The point is, if you see any ads at all that have the words "data entry" in them, PLEASE, oh please, read the fine print very carefully. The chances are good that this is a Google Adsense Program in Disguise.
I remember the first time I saw a data entry job ad. It said that I could make $3,000 a week doing data entry from home just by filling in a few forms. Now, right away my scam alert radar went off. I knew there was no way you could make that kind of money doing data entry. How did I know?
I used to do data entry years ago and the going rate back then was about $15 an hour. Even if they paid $25 an hour and you worked a 40 hour week, that's only $1,000 a week. And trust me, that was more than just filling in a few forms. Someting just didn't add up. So I went ot the site and checked it out very carefully. Now fortunately, by this time,I was an established marketer and pretty much knew what was out there. I was a Clickbank affiliate, had an adwords and adsense account and knew how these things worked. So magine my surprise when I went to this "data entry" site. What I saw there just shocked the heck out of me.
One of the things these sites love to do is show you their proof of income for just filling in a few forms. So I went down to the income proof. But beforeI got into it, I saw a diagram of one of the forms that you had to fill out. I looked for a second and then looked some more. I knew I had seen it somewhere before...then it hit me.
It was a Google Adwords form! I couldn't believe it!
Okay, how was this "data entry"? Anyway, I kept going untilI got to the income proof. Well, this I recognized right away, even with all of the things they blacked out. It was a Clickbank payments screen. And then it hit me. They were promoting a Google Adwords to sell Clickbank products as Data Entry. Well,I started to do a little more digging and guess what I found? This site was actually part of the Clickbank marketplace of products. I kept digging further and found tons of products all promoting the same thing, data entry jobs. The staggering part of it all was that I found 14 sites in the Clickbank Marketplace that were promoting these data entry schemes. I wrote to Clickbank about the fraudulent sites but of course they didn't do anythng about them.
Some of the sites have changed their advertising methods when I personally wrote to them and told them that they were not being truthful about what they were saying. But there are still plenty of sites out there that still peddle this crap.
So, if you see any sites promoting data entry "jobs" look real close to see if any of those screen prints are Google Adwords forms or clickbank payment screens. Don't worry, you can't miss them! And stay away from Adwords until you have a complete understanding of how that works. Because you canLoose your shirt with a Google Campaign if you don't know what you're doing.

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