This is a scam that comes as a “Work at Home” ad that you might encounter on the Internet. Similar to the Data entry scam, this one lures you into believing that you could stay at your home computer and make, let’s say, $600 per week.

After you sign up for registration (for which you have to pay a fee, of course) you pay between $30 and $150 to buy a list of the 1,000 prospective clients who will give you work for that “Data entry job”.

After you pay, the scammers either never get back to you or, if they do, will provide you with a list of names harvested by other scammers and sold to them. The people on those lists have no interest in providing you with work.

How to avoid: if you want to earn money doing data entry (and jobs do exist) do it through a reputable agency, not through an online advert.