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Saturday, May 16, 2009

A Review on Data Entry Scams - Beware

Thousands of people have been ripped off by data entry scams.

Here’s how data entry scams typically work

you visit a website that promises they will pay you to enter data for them. They don't give many details on how to type and several instructions. They just say something like “Type the following lines of data" in the field box below. And they will say they will afford $5 per data entry of 4-5 lines.

You itself think anybody gives $5 for just filling a 3-4 lines of data.

Then they will ask for a registration fee of anywhere from $47 to $97 to access the program and instead of a data entry job they send you an ebook. In the ebook you learn that in order to get paid you have to write ads in classifieds.

First, Data entry scams do not pay you to enter names or addresses into a database, which is what you expected when you signed up.But in your account it will show $3200 paid out (for eg.)

Second, they charge you a registration fee to gain access to a list of merchants that have affiliate programs when all of that information can be obtained for free elsewhere.

And third, they hide the fact that you’ll have to pay even more money later in order to place ads on different ad networks and classifieds

My advice is to use caution and to thoroughly investigate any data entry program before forking over any money. Do a Google search on the name of the program followed by the words “scam” or “complaints” and see if anyone has had bad experiences with them.

Also make sure they have a money-back guarantee and pay with your credit card so it will be easier to get your money back if they give you a hard time.

A little common sense can go a long way toward avoiding data entry scams.




3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thanks for sharing the information

manikandan said...

Though many cautions about data entry are been published regularly on the net. But people are joining for the sake of earning more and at last they lose everything.

Harish said...

Patience should be there to people before joining
they should ask their friends, online communities, search for scams.
This will prevent them from being scammed by those scammers.

 

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