You spend a lot of time on your computer. There are ads and emails everywhere about people making ridiculous amounts of money but you’re wise – you know these are all scams.
One day, however, you see that one of those “Make money at home” posts is advertising “Data entry on Google or Yahoo”. Here are people clearly making a lot of money by doing something that looks like a proper job and you think: ‘If they can, why can’t I? And it’s Google, it can’t be a scam!’
So you pay $1.97 (or a sum usually under $3) for online details (or a CD that will be shipped to you). The ‘job’ is posting links on forums or websites for various clients, and there is a promise that you will be provided a huge list of clients.
How to avoid: do not fall for this scam; Google and Yahoo are not involved in this. All the scammers need is your credit card. In a couple of days you will notice a $169 charge that may prove almost impossible to cancel. If you don’t notice it, the monthly charges will keep coming.